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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. - kathleen johnson

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They have always been interconnected. We just could not see it until we had the internet. - kathleen johnson

“If you were to hike the Appalachian trail, which would take you months and months, and you reflect upon it, you do not divide the experience into the historic, scientific, mathematic, and English aspects of it. You would look at it holistically.”

In practice, this means the elimination of English, mathematics, history, and science class.

arrange the curriculum around big ideas, questions, and conundrums

Diana Laufenberg, former teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, described to me, “The role of inquiry is the starting point of learning.

School-based education has always been about telling and getting of information, rather than exploring or investigating

the pedagogical unit of Brightworks is the arc, which is divided into three phrases.” Each arc, he says, has a central theme.

first phase of the arc is called exploration

The second phase is expression

take the ideas to completion — within the deadline

The final phase is called exposition, where the public gets to view what the kids have done.

“The point is to see the topic in as many ways as you possibly can,” says Tulley.

“T-shaped” students

depth in a particular field of study but also breadth across multiple disciplines.

David Kelley, whose mission is to transmit “empathy” into his students to encourage them to see the human side of the challenges

The school concentrates on four areas: the developing world, sustainability, health and wellness, and K-12 educatio

Similarly, the M.I.T. Media Lab has an anti-disciplinary approach to learning

“Suppose you and I decided to build a boat. Our hypothesis might be: we can build a boat under $30 using recycled materials and sail it across the Hudson River. Our teacher or mentor can help us shape that to ensure that the challenge meets our cognitive and intellectual development

At the Brightworks School, students will leave with an iPad, filled with all the projects they completed in their term

The role of the teacher in project-based learning as Laufenberg likes to say is an “architect of opportunity.

Tags: disciplines

by: kathleen johnson

The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:25:12 -0000

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Introverts are to extroverts what American women were to men in the 1950s -- second-class citizens with gigantic amounts of untapped talent.

Tags: design, introverts, creativity, susan cain, collaboration, networks

by: anonymous

Modelling, not shaping

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:04:31 -0000

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There is strong evidence that we need to integrate learning into our work in order to deal with the increasing complexity of knowledge work. The valued work in the enterprise is increasing in variety and decreasing in standardization. I have suggested that communities of practice are the bridge between work teams and open social networks, with narration of work an enabler of knowledge-sharing, and of course, modelling behaviour.

Communities are more like dance halls than factories. Platforms that have too much control will not be adopted on a community level. As a consultant, I would like to be able to recommend a variety of these platforms, that can inter-operate on some level, so that enterprise communities can choose the most suitable ones for their stage of development.

Tags: harold jarche, modelling, collaboration, communities of practice, networks

by: anonymous

How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:55:53 -0000

Tags: jay cross, social learning, design, collaboration

by: anonymous

Gamification in the Realm of Employee Training

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:22:00 -0000

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instead of thinking about creating learning objectives, gamification forces a designer to think about creating a challenge. All good games begin with a challenge; instruction should begin with a challenge and not with objectives

Tags: games, design

by: anonymous

Tools for taming the email beast

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:17:42 -0000

Tags: email, design

by: anonymous

Learning to Love Email

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:16:30 -0000

Tags: email, nick charney

by: anonymous