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Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
Don Lourcey

Free Technology for Teachers: Every Principal Needs A Blog! - 4 views

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leadership blogging

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  • Are you proud of your school? Do you have students who are doing newsworthy things in class and in co-curricular activities? Do you have some great teachers who engage students in ways you never thought of? Would you like to improve communication with parents and the community?
Stephen Mark

Digital Classes in CBSE Affiliated School, 3D Classes in School, Digital Class in CBSE ... - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 11 Apr 12
     
    Latest news about digital classes in CBSE affliated schools, 3D animation picture and sound for teaching, digital classroom lectures in schools to complete CBSE syllabus
David Ellena

14 Tips For Developing "Leadership Presence" » The Glass Hammer - 0 views

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shared by David Ellena on 12 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • January 8th, 2014 | 6:00 am 14 Tips For Developing “Leadership Presence” filed under Expert Answers By John Keyser Quite frequently in my leadership consulting and coaching practice, I am asked about “leadership presence”, specifically how to increase our “executive presence” or “board room presence”. Coincidently, many of the men and women who bring this up are people whom I believe already do, in fact, have significant leadership presence. This may not be surprising as we all have some degree of insecurity, that inner voice in our mind that often whispers negative
  • ”, specifically how to increase our “executive presence” or “board room pre
  • David Ellena on 12 Jan 14
     
    Develop your leadership presence
Stephen Mark

Class 10 Sample Papers, X Sample Question Papers, 10th Class sample Paper | Extraminds.com - 0 views

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class 10 sample papers question 10th paper Xth maths science papera X social english

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  • Stephen Mark on 13 Jun 12
     
    Find sample papers for class 10 to pratice complete syllabus of10th maths, science, social science, english, hindi and other subjects
Stephen Mark

Education CD for Class 8 Mathematics - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 11 Jun 12
     
    CBSE Maths CD pack for class 8 include classroom lectures, step-wise explanations, animation, solved examples. Get all maths video lectures at best price in the market.
Jeff Mann

Is This Learning? | District Administration Magazine - 0 views

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  • Is This Learning? Let’s discuss the definition of learning
  • For administrators, it comes to two questions. Do you believe the world has changed dramatically when it comes to learning? And if so, how can you begin to change the conversation around learning?
David Ellena

5 Habits of Innovative Educators | Courtney O'Connell - 0 views

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  • Habits are unconscious patterns of behavior that are acquired with frequent repetition
  • 1. They are idea blenders.
  • they steal ideas and concepts from outside of their domain and find ways to infuse those ideas into their work.
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  • 2. They ask their biggest critics for feedback.
  • Change agents in education are surrounded by a supportive group of people that can and will give them honest feedback. No one feels scared or defensive in the exchange of feedback, because the educator has been intentional in creating a trusting environment where constructive criticism is welcome.
  • 3. They fail fast and fail forward.
  • They know that failure is an imperative part of the creative process. Innovative educators are brave enough to try new ideas in and outside of the classroom.
  • 4. They are passionately curious.
  • They are constantly learning. This is also why they are idea blenders, because their curiosity leads them into a new web-design class or a subscription to an entrepreneurship online magazine.
  • 5. They believe in their students.
  • David Ellena on 13 Feb 14
     
    Some ideas on being an innovative leader
Stephen Mark

CBSE 10th Results Declared: 99.66 % Pass in Chennai Zone - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 22 May 12
     
    Get latest news on CBSE 10th results of Chennai, pass percentage, marks obtained, topper of 10th class results and many more results news on Extraminds.
Stephen Mark

CBSE 12th Result on 28 May - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 28 May 12
     
    Latest news about CBSE 12 results on 28 May, website to check 12th results, SMS service to get results, telephone numbers and email registration service to get 12 class results.
Stephen Mark

CBSE Exam goes Tech Savvy: Software To Prepare Question Papers - 0 views

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CBSE Exam Question Paper Bank Papers

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  • Stephen Mark on 17 Mar 12
     
    Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to develop a software to carry out examinations for classes IX and X. This decision has been taken to do away with repetition of question papers.
Child Therapy

Developing Self Confidence In Children - 1 views

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David Ellena

The Best Way for New Leaders to Build Trust - Jim Dougherty - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by David Ellena on 30 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • I spent more than four hours  listening in to client support calls at the call center.  I shared headsets with many of the team, moving from desk to desk to speak to the reps. To say they were surprised is an understatement: Many CEOs never visit the call center, and virtually none do it their first afternoon on the job.
  • I made this my priority partly because I wanted to know what customers were saying—but also to make an internal statement.
  • Without trust, it is very unlikely you will learn the truth on what is really going on in that organization and in the market place. 
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  • Without trust, employees won’t level with you—at best, you’ll learn either non-truths or part truths.
  • The best way to start building trust to take the time and meet as many individual contributors as you can as soon as you can.
  • Many leaders see their role as directing and giving information, rather than gathering.  There is pressure to “come up with the answer” quickly or risk looking weak.  Too many new leaders believe they’re expected to know the answer without input or guidance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Doing this correctly takes time—but less than you might think.
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      David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
       
      I could be trusted with the truth..how powerful
  • Later on my first day at Intralinks, I began arranging meetings with individual contributors. That’s where my learning really began. Over the next few weeks I met with over 60 individual contributors. Not only did I learn a lot, but I convinced them that I cared what they thought and could be trusted with the truth.
  • Instead of just laying this out in an all-hands meeting, I began laying out the plan in one-on-one meetings in which I talked about how each individual’s feedback had helped guide my thinking.
  • None of this could have happened without building the trust of the team. New leaders must remember that many of the best insights on how to fix a company lie with employees further down the org chart. Creating a trusting, honest dialogue with these key personnel should be every new leader’s top priority.
  • David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
     
    Some great advice for new leaders about earning trust
Courtney Jablonski

eLearning Update: Blended Learning Key for Growth - 0 views

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eLearning blended learning online learning paradigm shift

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, path, and/or pace.
  • The definition implies simple remote correspondence—like online videoconferencing or web chatting in a real-time environment only—does not qualify as blended learning, and perhaps points to a theoretical division between the labels of "online" and "distance" learning.
  • The report then labels six types of blended learning approaches:• face-to-face driver programs where teachers deliver most instruction in a live classroom and use online activities to supplement or remediate what goes on in the brick-and-mortar school;• rotation models where students follow a schedule that alternates between face-to-face class sessions and in-person instruction;• flex formats where most of the curriculum originates online, but an on-site instructor provides instruction as needed in individual and small group sessions;• online lab sessions where students do work online, but in a computer lab at a brick-and-mortar school with aides who offer supervision but little subject guidance;• self-blend schools where students may take online courses a la carte to supplement their brick-and-mortar school's curriculum; and• online driver constructs where students receive most of the course online and independently, but participate in required or optional face-to-face meetings.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11
     
    Our district is very focused on integrating 21st Century Learning Skills with our current Common Core Standards. What else can we be doing to prepare our students for this type of learning environment? At what age is it appropriate to begin this type of learning? What cost will this have on the emotional/personal relations between students and teachers?
Courtney Jablonski

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  • have their ID badges scanned to record their attendance.
  • individual study carrels in a big open space
  • students work independently at their computers, learning core subjects or electives through online curricula
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  • an area with cushy couches and tables called the Fishbowl, where students gather to chat between classes or to work on group projects.
  • put on headphones or twist iPod ear buds into their ears, because the online programs are interactive and multimodal—comprised of audio, video vignettes, Flash animation, quizzes, and games. Paraprofessionals called “assistant coaches” walk through the center to make sure kids are doing their work, fix computer glitches, help with academic questions
  • The online curriculum for each course is adaptive, meaning it can gauge from the students’ answers when they have mastered something and are ready to move ahead and when they may need extra practice before moving on. A bar on the upper right corner of the screen tracks students’ progress in every course and becomes part of a report automatically e-mailed to parents at the end of every week.
  • Using this “daily achievement data” from the students’ online work, teachers at Carpe Diem meet with students individually or in small groups, called workshops, either to give extra remedial help or to facilitate enrichment projects. Grouped roughly by age, students rotate in and out of the Learning Center, workshops, gym, or science labs every 55 minutes until the end of the day.
  • combine the best of traditional, face-to-face instruction with the best of the cutting-edge online curriculum available to virtual schools. The result is something education experts are calling a hybrid school.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Mar 11
     
    Although we may not be emulating this type of school in all ways, what types of learning opportunities are you providing students with that can reflect the ideas found in this hybrid school?
Helen Otway

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address - 0 views

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steve jobs stanford commencement address

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  • And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
  • The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
  • you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
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