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Brian C. Smith

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

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

How to Incubate Creativity in School Through Making and Discovery | MindShift | KQED News - 1 views

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  • Brian C. Smith on 22 Sep 15
     
    "'Our goal is not to create more scientists and engineers; it's to leave doors open for kids.'" This is a particularly powerful message for those interested in developing creativity. Creativity is cannot be captured in the form of a rubric, it is within the child and we must cultivate and allow it to develop in ever opening doors.
Brian C. Smith

Invisible | Practical Theory - 0 views

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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.""
Brian C. Smith

These Creative Kids Designed A Way To Measure All The Plastic In The Ocean | Co.Exist |... - 0 views

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  • Brian C. Smith on 03 Oct 15
     
    This project happened right here in Hong Kong with a partnership between a school and makers in the community. We have the contacts for this type of project. Do we really want this? If so, what needs to give in order to make it happen? If we don't, why the heck not? ~ Brian
Brian C. Smith

An Ode to Maker Camp: What Makes a Maker? Childhood - 0 views

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 15 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • Dr. Guilford’s question: “How are you going to design something if you’ve never built anything?”
  • How are you going to build something if you’ve never taken something apart?
  • How are you going to come up with interesting ideas and solutions if you’ve never been allowed to play with physical and digital bits and pieces?
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  • It takes a playful, curious person to take things apart and imagine new ways to put the parts back together.
  • Youthful creativity combined with readily available materials often leads to a whirlwind of wonderful things.
  • Amon Milner, a maker/educator, what a “maker” was, he replied that “[all] people are makers. And the conditions in which people can grow up and have that supported and still do it into adulthood is a very special person… Every [child] is a maker and some get to stay that way longer.”
  • Brian C. Smith on 15 Aug 17
     
    How are you going to design something if you've never built anything?
Martin Leicht

The End of 'Genius' - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Martin Leicht on 01 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • JOSHUA WOLF SHENK
  • The elemental collective, of course, is the pair. Two people are the root of social experience — and of creative work.
  • given that our psyches take shape through one-on-one exchanges, we’re likely set up to interact with a single person more openly and deeply than with any group
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  • he found that groups created a sense of community, purpose and audience, but that the truly important work ended up happening in pairs
  • Two people can make their own society
  • The pair is also inherently fluid and flexible
  • Three legs make a table stand in place. Two legs are made for moving
  • But nobody can hide in a pair.
  • The pair is the primary creative unit — not just because pairs produce such a staggering amount of work but also because they help us to grasp the concept of dialectical exchange.
  • And when we listen to creative people describe breakthrough moments that occur when they are alone, they often mention the sensation of having a conversation in their own minds
  • Martin Leicht on 01 Apr 17
     
    the "pair" take on creativity - no "solo" genius
Brian C. Smith

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 28 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • She spoke about love, beauty, and respect for children (of all ages) and their learning process. She showed some photos and videos of children learning together and how teachers have the opportunity to make small decisions in this process. To watch or intervene; to ask a question or remain quiet; to suggest an expansion of the complexity of the children’s investigation or to help them simplify their ideas.
Martin Leicht

Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • They aren’t going to become programmers, but they realize these are skills that will make them better lawyers
  • for example, learn to write short, tailored programs that can identify clusters of words and concepts in Supreme Court rulings more accurately than a Google search
  • Code, it seems, is the lingua franca of the modern economy.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Apr 17
       
      BIg data, by using code you fine tune your search and pull in the data/information you need.
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  • One recent institutional adaptation is the creation of so-called CS+X initiatives at schools like Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Illinois. These programs are hybrid majors that combine computing with other disciplines, including anthropology, comparative literature and history — a nod to the reality that software skills can advance research in nearly every field.
  • Today, at many universities, at least half of the student population takes the intro courses.
  • coding as a window to “computational thinking,” which involves abstract reasoning, modeling and breaking down problems into the recipelike steps of an algorithm
Martin Leicht

Learning to Think Like a Computer - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Martin Leicht on 05 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • all-important concept in computer science — abstraction — in terms of milkshakes
  • The idea of abstraction,” he said, “is to hide the details.” It requires recognizing patterns and distilling complexity into a precise, clear summary
  • Concealing layers of information makes it possible to get at the intersections of things
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  • In particular, “computational thinking” is captivating educators, from kindergarten teachers to college professors, offering a new language and orientation to tackle problems in other areas of life.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Apr 17
       
      a computer follow a logical flow, so by breaking down the steps and working through the process you learn a "logic" if you will. This process can then be applied to other non computing challenges as a problem solving exercise.
  • Computer Science Principles, focused not on learning to code but on using code to solve problems.
  • computational thinking — its broad usefulness as well as what fits in the circle. Skills typically include recognizing patterns and sequences, creating algorithms, devising tests for finding and fixing errors, reducing the general to the precise and expanding the precise to the general.
Martin Leicht

Play Is Serious Business | Psychology Today - 0 views

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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

It's 'digital heroin': How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies | New York Post - 0 views

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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Signs/signals being sent to the parent. "It's educational" is a reasonable excuse, yet does it trump parenting technique/skill?
  • As his behavior continued to deteriorate, she tried to take the game away but John threw temper tantrums. His outbursts were so severe that she gave in, still rationalizing to herself over and over again that “it’s educational.”
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Is too much of any one thing, e.g., baseball, food, study, computers, etc., a good idea?
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  • Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. We see the aggressive temper tantrums when the devices are taken away and the wandering attention spans when children are not perpetually stimulated by their hyper-arousing devices.
  • Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that cocaine does. Technology is so hyper-arousing that it raises dopamine levels — the feel-good neurotransmitter most involved in the addiction dynamic — as much as sex.
  • “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” to be especially true when it comes to tech addiction.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      When do we as parents act? Or is it more a partnership going forward? Yes, we (schools) asked students to use these devices. And we must do are bit to help students manage/cope. At the same time, parents need to be aware too. I know we all want to be liked as parents. In today's modern family, life is complex. Yet, I come to the conclusion that I am not my son's friend. There's going to be a lot of actions/directives he will not like. And yes, I will need to do a lot of work to get us through it, yet isn't that my job as a parent to deal with the changes as they come in order to guide him toward adulthood?
  • According to a 2013 Policy Statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 8- to 10 year-olds spend 8 hours a day with various digital media while teenagers spend 11 hours in front of screens. One in three kids are using tablets or smartphones before they can talk
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      1 in 3 before they can talk are using tablets? Okay, this is an interesting statement. Is it supervised use? How long? I would ask the question, why? We as parents make a lot of interesting choices as parents and we all need to stop and reflect on those choices often. If it is before they can talk, then it is definitely not the school asking/requiring the device.
  • Once a person crosses over the line into full-blown addiction — drug, digital or otherwise — they need to detox before any other kind of therapy can have any chance of being effective.
  • So how do we keep our children from crossing this line? It’s not easy.
  • That means Lego instead of Minecraft; books instead of iPads; nature and sports instead of TV
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Great strategy, active parenting. I would suggest, cooking, surfing, and any activity involving ones hands. Of course, do parents have time for this?
  • When I speak to my 9-year-old twin boys, I have honest conversations with them about why we don’t want them having tablets or playing video games.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      I like the "conversations" point. Not one, many conversations.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Another great strategy. I would add, the conversation is on going. The author references the distracted parent syndrome above, that one is key!
  • Developmental psychologists understand that children’s healthy development involves social interaction, creative imaginative play and an engagement with the real, natural world.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 07 Sep 16
       
      Moderation, no? Does not the standby wisdom that everything in moderation apply here too?
  • Thus the solution is often to help kids to connect to meaningful real-life experiences and flesh-and-blood relationships. The engaged child tethered to creative activities and connected to his or her family is less likely to escape into the digital fantasy world.
  • Brian C. Smith on 27 Sep 16
     
    Yeah, this is why the Reggio Emilia Approach and maker-centered learning is excellent. The blending of the digital and physical world to learn nearly anything on any topic and beyond. Kids might spend more time with devices in activities stemming from maker-centered learning, but it isn't all on the device and it provides alternative ways of knowing, understanding, and doing. We, the adults, are ultimately responsible for creating the conditions for this to be so. Papert has taught us this decades ago. I don't know why we don't study his work among the others that have known this for a very long time. Isn't it time to do so with the technology group?
Martin Leicht

Screen time and children - How to guide your child - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16
       
      KEY! In it together so get in there and play.
  • Prioritize unplugged
  • Create tech-free zones or times
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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16
       
      Hard, often parents are so "plugged in" that they forget/don't even comprehend they are not modeling what they are asking.
  • enforce daily or weekly screen time
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16
       
      Critical, without acting upon limits or rules, how will we know to take them seriously.
  • Keep screens out of your child's bedroom
  • he or she understands appropriate behavior.
  • Explain to your teen what's OK and what's not OK, such as sexting, cyberbullying and sharing personal information online
  • Teach your child not to send or share anything online that he or she would not want the entire world to see for eternity
  • child is bound to make mistakes using media
  • help him or her learn from them
  • odel positive online etiquette yourself
Martin Leicht

Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?) - The New York Times - 0 views

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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 18 Oct 16
       
      Unless of course the task is tortuous, then we are prone to look for distraction. We would rather help others work on this tortuous task.
  • by doing more you’re getting less done.
  • were enough to double the number of errors participants made in an assigned task
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  • interruptions as brief as two to three seconds
  • It’s a digital literacy skill
  • paying attention
  • If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”
  • monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.
  • humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks
  • Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness,
  • I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”
  • That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day
  • Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it
  • The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted.
  • Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation
  • After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”
  • Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time
  • Practice how you listen to people
  • Put down anything that’s in your hands and turn all of your attentional channels to the person who is talking
Martin Leicht

Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent,
  • the theory goes, new technology has created new jobs for software developers and data analysts
  • very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing.
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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 28 Mar 17
       
      What will the displaced workers do in the future? They all can not work at Starbucks? They can't go work at the movies either as iTunes makes it easier to see movies at home. Can they become software engineers?
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 28 Mar 17
       
      So do we ensure we/students have the skills to transfer jobs/roles easily? The challenge of manufacturing to healthcare is difficult. The ability to learn, stands at the forefront of skills to acquire.
  • worked in Detroit for 10 years, you don’t have the skills to go into health care,” he said. “The market economy is not going to create the jobs by itself
  • Steve Mnuchin, who said at an Axios event last week that artificial intelligence’s displacement of human jobs was “not even on our radar screen,” and “50 to 100 more years” away
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 28 Mar 17
       
      Is this not a red flag in itself that the Trump Administration does not see the rise of AI as a challenge a bigger challenge?
  • and that number will rise because industrial robots are expected to quadruple.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 28 Mar 17
       
      2.4 million robots in the workforce. They do not give a time frame?
  • but the effect on male employment was up to twice as big.
  • In an isolated area, each robot per thousand workers decreased employment by 6.2 workers and wages by 0.7 percent. But nationally, the effects were smaller, because jobs were created in other places.
  • If automakers can charge less for cars because they employ fewer people, employment might increase elsewhere in the country,
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 28 Mar 17
       
      Is this our experience that automaton enters the equation and prices get cheaper? That would be a great research project to look into.
  • cannot replicate human traits like common sense and empathy
  • new jobs created by technology are not in the places that are losing jobs, like the Rust Belt
  • From 1993 to 2007, the United States added one new industrial robot for every thousand workers — mostly in the Midwest, South and East — and Western Europe added 1.6.
  • like machine learning, drones and driverless cars — will have similar effects, but on many more people
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