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Future of learning: obsolescence of knowledge, return to real teaching
“Leading entrepreneurs and thought leaders provide a look at the future of education in a short documentary from Ericsson. It discusses how technology is changing the way students learn as well as what it means to learn and teach in a connected era.”
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The Less-Is-Best Approach to Innovation – Matthew E. May – Harvard Business Review
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IFTF: Anya Kamenetz Tells What’s in Store for Education
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“Is the stuff that we’re learning and the ways that we’re learning it really relevant to the world we live in?”
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TEDxAustin – Carrie Contey – 02/20/10 – YouTube
Carrie Contey is a nationally recognized prenatal and perinatal psychologist who reminds us of the power of pause. She explains that there’s a reason that so many ideas seem to materialize when were out of concentrated thinking mode; in the shower, on a walk, upon waking. Carrie urges us to do less to be more – and taking a moment to watch her talk is a great way to start. http://www.earlyparenting.com/
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How to Let Your Purpose Find You – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
Purpose, like any great love, redeems us. Perhaps not from the inferno, but from the void. Of a life, starved by insatiable self-regard, that comes to feel desperately empty — because, in truth, it has been. There is no singular, simple, final meaning to life. And it is the scars of purpose that, finally, don’t just merely give meaning to life — but endow us with a greater privilege — giving life to meaning.
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The Rise of Educator-Entrepreneurs: Bringing Classroom Experience to Ed-Tech | MindShift
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Eight Things in Education That Will Change in the Digital Age | MindShift
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C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 — Andy Hargreaves
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Why Learning Should Be Messy | MindShift
Can creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: “How do we teach it?” In school, instead of crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. Very rarely do you witness math and science teachers or English and history teachers collaborating with each other. Sticking in your silo, shell, and expertise is comfortable. Well, it’s time to crack that shell. It’s time to abolish silos and subjects. Joichi Ito, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, told me that rather than interdisciplinary education, which merges two or more disciplines, we need anti-disciplinary education, a term coined by Sandy Pentland, head of the lab’s Human Dynamics group.
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Unsolicited Evaluation Is the Enemy of Creativity | Psychology Today
In physically demanding tasks, like lifting heavy weights, and in tedious tasks, like counting beans, we do better when we are being evaluated than when we are not. But in tasks that require creativity, or new insights, or new learning, we do better when we are not being evaluated—when we are just playing, not stressed, not afraid of failure. Evaluation generally promotes effort—because we want to impress the evaluator—but effort is insufficient for creativity. You can’t be more creative just by trying harder. To be creative, you have to back off of yourself in a way that permits the full engagement of certain unconscious mental processes—processes that generate unusual associations and new ideas. Those unconscious processes work best when you are playing, not when you are striving for praise or some other reward.
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