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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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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
David Ellena

Leading with small, everyday gestures | @MJAsmus for @SmartBrief SmartBlogs - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 08 Oct 14
     
    3 little things for a leader that make a big difference
Duane Sharrock

Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » Numbers Can Lie: What ... - 0 views

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  • Perhaps whatever in an education system or culture that boosts math scores leads to less positive attitude and lower confidence at the same time.
  • According to historical data, American education has always been bad and actually improving over the years.
  • the First International Science Study (FISS)[4] was conducted, U.S. students ranked bottom in virtually all categories:
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  • In the 1980s, when the Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) and Second International Science Study (SISS)[5] were conducted, U.S. students inched up a little bit, but not much
  • In the 1990s, in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)[6], American test performance was not the best but again improved:
  • In 2003, in TIMSS[7] (now changed into Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), U.S. students were not great, but again improved:
  • Over the half century, American students performance in international math and science tests has improved from the bottom to above international average. The following figure shows the upward trend of American students’ performance in math
  • There are other studies and statistics, but this long list should be sufficient to prove that American students have been awful test takers for over half a century. Some has taken this mean American education has been awful in comparison to others.
  • The Numbers Don’t Lie, but What Truth Do They Tell
  • Duane Sharrock on 14 Dec 12
     
    "Over the half century, American students performance in international math and science tests has improved from the bottom to above international average. The following figure shows the upward trend of American students' performance in math."
  • Duane Sharrock on 14 Dec 12
     
    "Over the half century, American students performance in international math and science tests has improved from the bottom to above international average. The following figure shows the upward trend of American students' performance in math."
Courtney Jablonski

eLearning Update: Blended Learning Key for Growth - 0 views

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  • 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

Education Week Teacher: Hybrid Teaching Roles Promote Student Success - 0 views

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  • a hybrid teacher role as Data Strategist. I was charged with the task of organizing the various data points that, taken collectively, offer useful clues about student achievement, progress, and deficiency. The data lens could zoom out to a schoolwide perspective that might inform staff development planning, narrow to a classroom or grade-level view offering insight on skills requiring remediation, or focus on a single student being considered for referral to the school psychologist for a learning disability.
  • There is growing evidence that teacher empowerment as school leaders is linked strongly with teachers' tendency to engage in behaviors that accelerate student growth: soliciting parent involvement, communicating positive expectations, and being willing and able to innovate in the classroom.
  • In addition to measurable student impact, teachers that lead schools are better equipped to guide their own professional development, share their expertise, and develop explicit and implicit systems of accountability, while experiencing more respectful, trusting, and professional cultures.
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  • Title 1 funding that traditionally would have paid for an additional literacy specialist was allocated for the data strategist position.
  • The possibilities are endless when an individual's interests and skills are considered within the context of a school's needs. Such roles might also include community liaisons responsible for connecting families with various social services while plugging students into local job, volunteering, or community service opportunities. A keen interest in 21st-century skills might develop into a role that guides students to collaborate with others, synthesize information, and create something unique and useful for their peers.
  • The most prevalent barrier to hybrid teaching roles is the district-mandated staffing plan that leaves buildings with little opportunity to determine how personnel are allocated.
David Ellena

Winning When the Troops are Tired - Let's Grow Leaders - 0 views

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  • Be a leader that strengthen the mission AND the team.  It’s wrong to live in a state of constant urgency, if that’s the scene, something’s wrong.
  • 1.  Strategize Failure
  • Be frank about what can be lost without sacrificing your mission.  Candor strengthens resolve.
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  • 2.  Visualize the Win
  •  Encourage talents outside normal job descriptions that support the cause.
  • 3.  Speak to behaviors, not metrics
  •  identify the 2-3 most important behaviors that will impact results.
  • 4.  Provide a little leave
  • Eliminate unnecessary meetings.  Stepping back will leave room for creativity and more efficient approaches.
  • 5.  Communicate through the ranks
  • You may not even know they’re tired.   Initiate the conversation.
  • 6.  Manage your own stress Stress rolls down hill.  Get a grip.
  • 7.  Encourage collaboration and sharing best practices
  • David Ellena on 07 Jan 14
     
    Especially after the Holidays, some goo strategies to help you troops
David Ellena

4 senses of character-based leadership | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 1 views

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  • 4 senses of character-based leadership
  • Sense of mission:
  • Without accomplishment, there is no need for a leader. Leadership implies motion. Motion without direction is wasted.
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  • If there is no urgency, if the thing can be done “whenever,” then there is little need for leadership.
  • Sense of urgency:
  • Sense of responsibility: Responsibility is the understanding not only that something must be done, but also that you must do it.
  • Sense of service: If your mission serves only yourself or a small crowd, you have no chance of becoming a great leader.
  • David Ellena on 07 Jan 14
     
    How does your leadership incorporate these traits?
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