How to Get a Job at Google – excerpt #ActionEd #21C

Posted on February 23, 2014 by boadams1

From “How to Get a Job at Google,” Thomas Friedman, Sunday Review, nytimes.com

Beware. Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills — leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn. This will be true no matter where you go to work.

HT @EileenFennelly

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Posted on February 23, 2014 by boadams1

What Would Be a Radically Different Vision of School? | MindShift

““Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,” Richardson said.”

tags: iDiploma real-world real-life Synergy school model School Change #MustRead
- “We’re a place that can get kids into college.” Now families clamor to get their students into the school, but they didn’t trust the idea at the outset.
- “Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,”
Learning with the Competition – President’s Blog

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How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward | MindShift

“But what if teachers embraced the idea of transparency as a form of activism, a way of shining light on what works in the classroom? “The minute we say, ‘Come look and talk to the students,’ we can show what we’re all about,” said Jose Vilson, an educator and panelist at EduCon in Philadelphia. “If we can do that with a sense of trust and expertise, with respect for ourselves and others, then we can have a pro something instead of an anti-something.””

HT @nicolenmartin

tags: transparency #MustRead
The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told

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Where the Fish Swims, Ideas Fly – NYTimes.com

Talk less, Do more. Be in community! All from a fish lamp.

HT @MeghanCureton. #OneOfMyFavoriteArticlesEver

tags: #MustRead CLIO

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Rosalind Torres on 21C #Leadership – Defined and Evidenced by 3 Questions

Posted on February 20, 2014 by boadams1

Rosalinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader. TED.com

In a 21st-century world, which is more global, digitally enabled and transparent, with faster speeds of information flow and innovation, and where nothing big gets done without some kind of a complex matrix, relying on traditional development practices will stunt your growth as a leader. In fact, traditional assessments like narrow 360 surveys or outdated performance criteria will give you false positives, lulling you into thinking that you are more prepared than you really are. Leadership in the 21st century is defined and evidenced by three questions.

“Where are you looking to anticipate change?”
“What is the diversity measure of your network?”
“Are you courageous enough to abandon the past?”

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Posted on February 16, 2014 by boadams1

Should We Be Engaging OR Empowering Learners? | The Tempered Radical

tags: engagement empowerment #MustRead
Simple Truth: Engagement isn’t Something You Do TO Students. | The Tempered Radical

This is making me think!

tags: engagement #MustRead
Embracing Messy Learning | Edutopia

“I am slowly learning to embrace the struggles that students experience as they engage with authentic work. If I don’t allow learning to be messy, I eliminate authentic experiences for students as thinkers and creators. I find it important to regularly remind myself that frustration leads to insights and that learning is not necessarily the equivalent of mastery.”

tags: authentic project_management #MustRead Student Voice Synergy iDiploma PBL
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
What Makes Milpitas a Model for Innovation | EdSurge News

“iReady”

tags: blended learning designthinking school model tools #MustRead 1:1
- Principal Ken Schlaff explains that 10th graders spend three hours a day in a project-based learning class, where they explore cross content in chemistry, language, and world history
- Three teachers, experts in each content area, teach the class collaboratively, all sharing a common prep time.
IDEO’s Culture of Helping – Harvard Business Review

“Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. That has always been true for pragmatic reasons: If companies were to operate at peak efficiency without what organizational scholars call “citizenship behavior,” tasks would have to be optimally assigned 100% of the time, projects could not take any unexpected turns, and no part of any project could go faster or slower than anticipated. But mutual helping is even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on creativity in often very complex projects. Beyond simple workload sharing, collaborative help comes to the fore—lending perspective, experience, and expertise that improve the quality and execution of ideas.”

tags: #mustread collaboration
Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking | Integrative Innovation

How #DesignThinking and #LeanStartUp can synergize.

tags: leanstartup designthinking #MustRead iDiploma
A Work in Progress: Growth Minded Assessment – Growth Mindset Blog

HT @nicolenmartin

tags: mindset math assessment #MustRead
IFTF: Future of Learning: From Assigning to Enticing with Content

tags: learning Future of Learning #MustRead
- given an enormous range of learning choices, they might voluntarily flock to topics they’re passionate about
The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand

tags: lecture pedagogy instruction teaching instructional methods methods #MustRead engagement
No More Genius Hours, 20% Time or FedEx Days | Findings

Bill of Rights for Self-Determined Learning via @BombayScot [note to self: interesting serendipity this morning w/ re-discovering McIntosh essay on privilege]

tags: geniushour 20percenttime FedEx Day learning billofrights #MustRead
Student Choice and Classrooms of the Future – President’s Blog

President of NAIS, John Chubb, looks at Hillbrook iLab and other learning spaces – concludes that it’s not even as much about the space as it is about student choice driving the learning engagement and pedagogy. Environment is a third teacher in establishing such student-driven exploration and ownership of learning.

tags: classrooms #MustRead schooldesign school model NAIS Student Voice choice

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How to Get a Job at Google – excerpt #ActionEd #21C

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