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Sara Wilkie

Are We Wringing the Creativity Out of Kids? | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Teach children how to have "grit," the perseverance and determination that's required to create something new. He referenced the research on grit conducted by University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, who professes the maxim "Choose easy, work hard.""
Sara Wilkie

Wish List: Piecing Together an Ideal School From the Ground Up | MindShift - 0 views

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    ""We saw how the best practices we were witnessing could inform a really transformative school model," Healy said. Here are their 6 chief take-aways from what they saw and learned about schools that work.
Sara Wilkie

What It Takes to Become an All Project-Based School | MindShift - 0 views

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    "In many schools, project-based learning happens in isolated cases: in certain teachers' classrooms here and there, or in the contexts of specific subjects. But for students to benefit from project-based learning, ideally it's part of a school's infrastructure - a way to approach learning holistically. For one quickly growing network of schools, project-based learning is the crux of the entire ecosystem. New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, is taking its school-wide project-based model to national scale. The organization, which offers a paid program for schools to use its model, began with a flagship school in Napa and has grown to 120 schools in 18 states, most of which are public schools."
Sara Wilkie

For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Coming up with the right question involves vigorously thinking through the problem, investigating it from various angles, turning closed questions into open-ended ones and prioritizing which are the most important questions to get at the heart of the matter. "We've been underestimating how well our kids can think." "We've been underestimating how well our kids can think." Rothstein said in a recent discussion on the talk show Forum. "We see consistently that there are three outcomes. One is that students are more engaged. Second, they take more ownership, which for teachers, this is a huge thing. And the third outcome is they learn more - we see better quality work.""
Sara Wilkie

Why Students Need To Do School Work That Matters Outside of School | MindShift - 0 views

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    "The growing access to knowledge, information, people, and tools that our students are getting demands a shift in how we think about the work they do in school."
Mark O'Mara

Defining & Measuring Deeper Learning - 1 views

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    Good short overview of the connection between the cognitive, interpersonal & intrapersonal and "deeper learning". In careers classes & in career advice these are the sorts of factors the kids are taught determine success in life. Via Sara Wilkie Tweet
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