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Brian C. Smith

Computer Science Should Supplement, not Supplant Science Education - 0 views

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computer science science NGSS CSTA

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  • In the integrated STEM classroom, using the principles of NGSS, educators are working to seek out real-world, relevant, authentic problems that would be of interest to students and ask them to apply computational thinking to solve the problem using data analysis, visualization, seeking patterns, and computation.
  • And as everyone knows, time in the school schedule is VERY limited and providing computer science as on a separate track cuts the instructional time pie even more, and sets up another silo in high schools.
Martin Leicht

Is Design Thinking the New Liberal Arts? - CIO Journal. - WSJ - 0 views

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design thinking liberal arts college mash up remix

shared by Martin Leicht on 15 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • The first is feasibility
  • Next comes viability
  • The final dimension is desirability
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  • Design thinking is now being applied to abstract entities, such as systems and services, as well as to devise strategies, manage change and solve complex problems.
  • d.school, was launched in 2004 as a graduate program that integrates business, the social sciences, the humanities and other disciplines into more traditional engineering and product design
  • take on the world’s messy problems together.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      human values & continuing evolution
  • deliberate mash-up of industry, academia and the big world beyond campus is a key
  • rigorous engineering education; entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking; and the arts, which broadly encompasses creativity, innovation and design
  • students needed to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      approach from different perspectives & even combine approaches to find innovative solutions
  • has design thinking now become the new liberal arts? After pondering the question, I believe the answer is: No
  • Design Thinking is frequently identified as an engaging process and methodical framework for approaching complex, multidisciplinary problems in ways that consistently result in solutions that are successful and often creative in unpredictable way
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      DT - it's a framework for thinking about complex, multidisciplinary problems to be applied to anything
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      successful design solutions are found at the intersection of "feasibility", "viability," and "desirability.'
  • How is design thinking human-centered,
  • Do disciplines, in order to evolve and advance, need some place in which to play and from which to be provoked?… Research-as-questioning is a much freer and more playful approach to discovery. It keeps us in closer contact with our natural disposition to curiosity and wonder.”
  • concluded that their action-oriented approach to problem solving did not pay proper attention to past knowledge. “A truly human-centered design, if it takes culture at all seriously, would have to take pastness seriously
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 23 Nov 16
       
      study of the past sets us up to live well in future
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 24 Nov 16
       
      Design Thinking does not really focus much on the past beyond the definition of the problem/challenge were liberal arts does.
  • But for them to really shape the future of university learning, they will have to do a better job of engaging with precisely what the university was designed to promote, and what design thinking, with its emphasis on innovation, has thus far completely ignored: the past.”
  • The difference between science and engineering is often described by the nature of the questions that are asked: scientists ask why as they attempt to understand the world, while engineers ask why not as they attempt to change it and create what has never been
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 24 Nov 16
       
      You need both Science, the why, and Engineering, the why not, to fully leverage/use/benefit from design thinking. As do Liberal Arts and Design Thinking. Both are a symbiotic twin.
Martin Leicht

Is Social Media Disconnecting Us From the Big Picture? - The New York Times - 0 views

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social media awareness responsibility data big algorithms

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  • Social media is my portal into the rest of the world
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      My part of the world? My portal of the world. It's play on "my corner of the world." Well it is interesting to think about as we shape our own portals, yet possibly we are not realizing it.
  • Each time I liked an article, or clicked on a link, or hid another, the algorithms that curate my streams took notice and showed me only what they thought I wanted to see.
  • I’m not blaming the algorithms
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  • They did exactly what I told them to do, blocking out racist, misogynist and anti-immigrant comments, hiding anyone who didn’t support Black Lives Matter, all with such deftness
  • I knew about Eli Pariser’s theory on filter bubbles, or the idea that online personalization distorts the type of information we see, and even so, I still chose to let algorithms shape how I perceive the world. Everything I could want to see is available at my fingertips, and yet I didn’t look.
  • Zuckerberg’s idealism is belied by his desire to duck responsibility for mediating the content of his site
  • Most social media
  • curated by software built to manage the high influx of information flowing into it
  • video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own
  • Vine links could be shared independent of the network, and people did so with abandon, meaning that Vines appeared scattershot around the web, defying the sorting mechanism of streams and feeds
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      Vine's content did not necessarily need to go back to a central mechanism for oversight, like FaceBook & Twitter.
  • At Vine’s peak, it had more than 200 million monthly users who watched videos billions of times, and it excelled at showing these sorts of commonalities: that, say, black kids in New Orleans lived and looked a lot like white kids in Florida.
  • Snapchat offered its own version of cultural exchange.
  • People submitted short video diaries about life in their cities, which the company compiled into a single video, viewable by anyone using the app
  • But the company is now prioritizing “live stories,” which feature more mainstream events like the Super Bowl and music festivals
  • future of Tumblr, the blogging platform whose endless warren of rabbit holes about gender theory, critical feminist thought and identity politics is unlike any other on the internet, is the most uncertain
  • User-generated content, by and large, is not lucrative at a scale that satisfies investors, and as a result, most social-media companies are changing direction toward other revenue streams
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Dec 16
       
      User generated content by itself is less marketable. What exactly do they mean? Total user generated content without any "filters" or control is not a viable product?
  • Semiprivate messaging applications
  • have grown in popularity as people move away from public arenas for conversation, a shift caused in part by spikes in unchecked harassment on major social networks
  • What happens when we would rather look inward
  • We are more interested in locating alien species than understanding the humanity among the species we already live with
  • Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don’t agree with
Brian C. Smith

technology - Practical Theory - 0 views

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technology modernlearning

shared by Brian C. Smith on 13 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • We need to understand that until we stop fetishizing technology by making it the focal point of the work every time we pull it out of the closet, we will never move past the notion of “technology integration” to a place of “modern learning.”
  • The idea that technology must be invisible in school is simply this: Using technology to inquire, to create, to share, to research, to learn is not and should not be notable anymore. It should simply be a matter of course.Using technology in school is not the point – learning is.
  • There are still moments when we learn about the technology itself, and that’s a good thing. Whether it is in a computer science class where students are learning to program, or it is in a technology infusion workshop where we help students to learn how to fully integrate the technology into their sense of themselves as a student and citizen, there are moments where we — student and teachers — make the invisible visible.
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  • both students and teachers should have moments of reflection of how the tools affect the learning. But there’s a big leap between understanding how the tool both is vital to and transformative to the work and making the work always about the tool.
  • Brian C. Smith on 13 Apr 17
     
    Lehmann offers an important context for thinking about learning in a technology-rich world.
Brian C. Smith

Constructionism through Design Thinking Projects | FabLearn Fellows - 1 views

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design thinking constructionism projectbased

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  • Brian C. Smith on 24 Sep 15
     
    "Hard problems require time (months), collaboration, creativity, grit and learning new skills to pass a challenge. The true sign of a good hard problem is when the adults do not have all the answers for students, rather the students get to take charge using their own imagination and ambition to reach a goal set by their team."
Brian C. Smith

Invisible | Practical Theory - 0 views

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technology learning

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  • Brian C. Smith on 13 Sep 15
     
    "We need to understand that until we stop fetishizing technology by making it the focal point of the work every time we pull it out of the closet, we will never move past the notion of "technology integration" to a place of "modern learning.""
Dana Watts

What one college discovered when it stopped accepting SAT/ACT scores - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • Dana Watts on 28 Sep 15
     
    'We’re done with standardized testing, the SAT, and ACT.'
Brian C. Smith

Adios Ed Tech. Hola something else. - 0 views

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technology learning

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  • Brian C. Smith on 16 Sep 15
     
    "My framework for technologies in the edtech space now, those that I find empowering for learners and reflective of a human and creative-oriented future, includes five elements: Does the technology foster creativity and personal expression? Does the technology develop the learner and contribute to her formation as a person? Is the technology fun and engaging? Does the technology have the human teacher and/or peer learners at the centre? Does the technology consider the whole learner?"
Brian C. Smith

Making (in) History: Learning by Reinvention | Edutopia - 1 views

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making learning history modernlearning

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  • Brian C. Smith on 14 Nov 15
     
    An excellent article about making in history class from Castilleja.
Martin Leicht

Play Is Serious Business | Psychology Today - 0 views

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play innovation creativity school education

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  • the Prussian military developed a model that now resembles our school structure today
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 22 Aug 16
       
      Okay, we throw the Prussians under the bus for developing school, as we know it. 
  • Researchers have already exposed the risks of sitting for hours at a time and know that it increases health problems
  • Stuart Brown, one of the foremost play researchers in the world, states that play is essential for both brain development and social development, from childhood into adulthood.
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  • It is a biological mechanism for making learning enjoyable.
  • Play helps meld emotion into the experience of learning.
  • If a child is denied the opportunity to play, the body and mind fight back.
  • Play allows children to let off steam
  • positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and increase cognitive flexibility.  Why not embrace the tool in the curriculum?  
  • When school becomes a stressful place for a child, it is no longer a supportive, positive learning environment
  • teachers at traditional schools can adapt their classrooms to include more choices, more creativity, and more open play
  • Play has become a luxury – available in private schools that espouse progressive learning principles, but crowded out of public schools by a teach-to-the-test mentality.
  • Despite increasing research on play and emotion, relatively few studies of play within the school environment exist.
  • Increasingly, educators are calling for a return (link is external) to the greater integration of play into elementary education.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 22 Aug 16
       
      integration, the question what is the integration equation? How much play how much less structured teach to the test? 
  • Fredrickson
Martin Leicht

Better Than Resilient - Prosilient | Psychology Today - 0 views

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change resilience done macGyver

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  • resilience means the ability to recover from difficult life events such as illnesses, setbacks in love and work, and bereavement
  • A resilient system is not just one that doesn’t change, but more importantly one that can deal with changes by recovering from them.
  • prosilience
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Apr 17
       
      Prosilience - the ability to recover from change (snap back) and to get better.
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  • If life gives you lemons, make lemonade
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Apr 17
       
      Life was pretty good (or just ok) with the lemons, now it is even better with Lemonade - Prosilience
Brian C. Smith

Collaboration - 0 views

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collaboration

shared by Brian C. Smith on 14 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Collaboration is more than simply the division of labor. It should not be taught as an isolated skill or coerced. Sadly, like many seemingly good ideas, schools seek to mechanize collaboration by turning natural process into a set of measurable skills and multi-year course of study, easily assessed. Some children win, while others fail.
  • Cooperation and collaboration are natural processes. Such skills are useful when the creative process benefits from interdependence. The best collaboration mirrors democracy when individual talents, knowledge, or experiences are contributed to produce something larger than the sum of its parts.
  • Work with your friends. Work with people you trust. Work with people who have different skills or expertise. If that doesn’t produce the result you desire, you will find others to collaborate with. That is how you learn to collaborate. You may teach it, but the students will not stay taught.
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  • The only reason to assign group size is scarcity of materials (we have to share). Even in those largely avoidable scenarios, it hardly matters if group size varies a bit. The main consideration is inactivity by some members when a group is too large.
  • Collaboration is both selfish and selfless. You give of yourself by sharing your talent and expertise, but the collaboration should benefit you as well.
  • Brian C. Smith on 14 Apr 17
     
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