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Why teacher training fails — and how we can correct that – The Washington Post
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Play vs Academics: A False Dichotomy | Not Just CuteNot Just Cute
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Research Shows Youngest Kids Learn by Thinking Like Scientists – Early Years – Education Week
educare – the Latin root of education – means to draw out that which is already there (not fill like an empty vessel). So what is it we are trying to draw out?
“much like scientists, the youngest kids learn by testing hypotheses against data and drawing conclusions. “Everyday play is really a kind of scientific exploration,” she said. “It’s just that when they do experiment, we call it ‘getting into everything.’ “
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Gopnik’s research has led her to conclude that the best way to encourage young kids to learn is not by pushing academics, but by providing them with a “safe, rich environment” that will allow them to explore their natural connections to science.
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Rethinking what leads to success in education
After decades of failed education policies, scientists, economists and educators are beginning to rethink their basic ideas about what it takes to succeed in school. They’re beginning to look at so-called “non-cognitive skills” — grit, perseverance, conscientiousness and optimism, for instance — and wondering if they might be as important as cognitive skills.
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Will the Next “Education President” Please Stand Up? – Global Learning – Education Week
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STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is Key to Building a Strong Economy | Edutopia
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The Best Way to Remove Your Biggest Obstacle | Pull Not Push
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How William Root Spent His Summer Vacation in 160 Square Feet – Core77
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To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop – NYTimes.com
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The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers,
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“serial mastery.”
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“You can’t expect that what you’ve become a master in will keep you valuable throughout the whole of your career, and you want to add to that the fact that most people are now going to be working into their 70s,” she said, adding that workers must try to choose specialties that cannot be outsourced or automated.
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The struggle is not just to keep up, but to anticipate a future of rapid change.
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His field is so new, and changing so rapidly, he said, that there is little consensus on established practices or necessary skills. “It’s more difficult to know what we should learn,” he said. “We have advisers that we work with, but a lot of times they don’t know any better than us what’s going to happen in the future.”
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spends a lot of time comparing notes with others in his field, just as many professionals turn to their peers to help them stay current.
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In an economy where new, specialized knowledge is worth so much, it may seem anticompetitive to share expertise. But many professionals say they don’t see it that way.
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“The amount of information that I learned in medical school is minuscule,” he said, “compared to what is out there now.”
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Leaving students to learn social media skills “outside of school” is not a good option. Social media management and leadership should be an integrated part of real-life education at schools. Social media management could be entrepreneurship and citizenship curricula woven into PBL, CBL, DBL.
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Thoughts on Internet Engagement Inspired by the Times Article on Cycling and Helmets « 21k12
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Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate – Maxwell Wessel – Harvard Business Review
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When corporations reach maturity, the measure of success is very different: it’s profit.
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In school, would “profits” analogue be “getting into college?”
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Once a business figures out how to solve its customers’ problems, organizational structures and processes emerge to guide the company towards efficient operation
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Seasoned managers steer their employees from pursuing the art of discovery and towards engaging in the science of delivery.
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No company ever created a transformational growth product by asking: “How can we do what we’re already doing, a tiny bit better and a tiny bit cheaper?”
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Is this what flipped classrooms and MOOCs are doing?
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It was product development in an operationally-efficient fashion.
This was their biggest barrier, not a lack of vision.
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Companies like Gerber don’t struggle to identify the next great idea. It may seem like a foolish endeavor at first, but Gerber for adults wasn’t destined for failure. The idea had merit, and the trends the executive team noticed were real. Just look at any smoothie section in your local grocery store. Naked, Odwalla and Innocent sell hundreds of millions of dollars of product addressing the same problem that Gerber identified with a very similar solution.
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The problem wasn’t the idea; the problem emerged from the relentless pursuit of incremental profit within mature organizations. It’s a pursuit that drives us towards incremental wins by leveraging underutilized assets. And you know what’s wrong with this pursuit? Nothing. That’s the paradox.
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The gamification of education (infographics) — Playful Wingmen
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