Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
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21st Century Learning Design - 4 views
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21st Century Learning Design, formerly called 'LEAP21' is a global professional development program for teachers and schools to develop more innovative pedagogies that develop students skills for the 21st Century. The program is sponsored globally by Microsoft Partners in Learning and is supported in each country by a network of education partners."
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 6 views
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And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
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We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Article by Will Richardson - 0 views
YouTube - 21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canada - 4 views
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This video was produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education to stimulate discussion among educators and other stakeholders in public education in the province of New Brunswick. The 21st Century presents unique challenges for education worldwide. In order to keep pace with global change we must focus on 21st Century Skills and public education must adapt to keep students engaged.
Instructional Strategies for Online Courses - 5 views
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"Educators should choose instructional strategies that are most effective for accomplishing a particular educational objective. From this perspective, instructional strategies are tools available to educators for designing and facilitate learning ."
Introducing the Microlecture Format - 0 views
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David Shieh of the Chronicle of Higher Education recently took a look at a community college program that features a microlecture format, presentations varying from one to three minutes in length.
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