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Jay Collier

Lighthouse Creativity Lab - 0 views

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    The Lighthouse Community Charter School Creativity Lab's vision is to give people from all walks of life the opportunity to participate in designing and making. We are building a K-12 program on site both to serve our own students, but also to help others see how design-make can be integrated into an entire school program.
Gina Hall

MoMA Talks - SPECIAL LIVE STREAM EVENT Learning Environments... - 0 views

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    The field of education is undergoing a revolution precipitated by not only the rapid growth of technologies that are reshaping access to information and resources, communication, and learning, but by the demands of an evolving global economy that requires collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. "What role should a museum play as a place of learning in the 21st century?" and "What unique value will museums add to the field?"
Gina Hall

Executive Function, Arts Integration and Joyful Learning (Part 6 of 7) | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Children's brains need to acquire memory associations that link pleasure with learning
  • learning,
  • creating.
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  • discovering
  • Carol Dweck
  • fixed mindset to those of a growth mindset
  • Learning that incorporates the arts, movement or physical enactment offers students opportunities to engage their academic subjects through talents and abilities which they have not previously recognized as being relevant to their scholastic and cognitive potentials
  • artistic activities should be authentic and meaningful; they should not be perceived by students as "add-on fluff" to academic subjects.
  • reduces mistake anxiety by removing expectations for a single correct response or product
  • ability to delay immediate gratification and to apply effort toward goals that are not immediate
  • positive learning and assessment experiences continue and students begin to build confidence
  • apply more effort, collaborate successfully, ask questions, revise work and review foundational knowledge
  • increased attention span in general and improved critical thinking
  • experience in symbolic representation of academic learning with the neural activity seen when the brain processes information using the highest forms of cognition, creative problem solving, critical analysis and innovation.
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    the arts and the neuroscience of joyful leaning
anonymous

Teaching Section of US Tech Plan 2016 - 2 views

  • They need continuous, just-in-time support that includes professional development, mentors, and informal collaborations.
  • roughly half say that lack of training is one of the biggest barriers to incorporating technology into their teaching.
  • Institutions responsible for pre-service and in-service professional development for educators should focus explicitly on ensuring all educators are capable of selecting, evaluating, and using appropriate technologies and resources to create experiences that advance student engagement and learning. They also should pay special care to make certain that educators understand the privacy and security concerns associated with technology.
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  • For many teacher preparation institutions, state offices of education, and school districts, the transition to technology-enabled preparation and professional development will entail rethinking instructional approaches and techniques, tools, and the skills and expertise of educators who teach in these programs.
  • Technology can empower educators to become co-learners with their students
  • Side-by-side, students and teachers can become engineers of collaboration, designers of learning experiences, leaders, guides, and catalysts of change.
  • form online professional learning communities.
  • Teacher User Groups
  • Rethinking Teacher Preparation
  • more than 100 direct mentions of technology expectations
  • every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards.
  • This expertise does not come through the completion of one educational technology course separate from other methods courses but through the inclusion of experiences with educational technology in all courses modeled by the faculty in teacher preparation programs.
  • URI has found that participants experienced a dramatic increase in digital skills associated with implementing project-based learning with digital media and technology. Their understanding of digital literacy also shifted to focus more on inquiry, collaboration, and creativity.
  • Denver Public Schools Personalizes Professional Development
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