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Jim Tiffin Jr

So You Want to Be a Better Presenter and Pitcher? The Power of the Education 'Ignite Ta... - 1 views

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Ignite Ignite Session Ignite Talk links presentation FromLinkedIn Ransomtech talks EdSurge #LiquidNetworkSpill

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  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 May 16
     
    Excellent little article on Ignite Sessions. It explains what they are, shares some examples, and talks about how to adapt them for schools and students. HT @ransomtech
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 May 16
     
    Excellent little article on Ignite Sessions. It explains what they are, shares some examples, and talks about how to adapt them for schools and students. HT @ransomtech
T.J. Edwards

Stop Calling it A Personal Project - Dear Design Student - 1 views

deardesignstudent.com/-personal-project-cf07efb20aeb

#mvifishares design idiploma

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  • T.J. Edwards on 19 May 16
     
    Read about the fine line between personal projects, passion projects, and self serving design junk.
T.J. Edwards

From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam | VentureBeat |... - 0 views

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School Change entrepreneurship

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  • T.J. Edwards on 24 May 16
     
    Options for entrepreneurship style classes/modules
Bo Adams

Design thinking in the corporate DNA - Medium - 1 views

medium.com/...the-corporate-dna-f0a1bd6359db

designthinking #MustRead

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  • A common trap for us is to take something in its infancy and try to scale it big. Build it. Launch it. Move on. Well, it doesn’t work like that. Remember how long it took before you mastered design thinking? This isn’t something that you have people try once and then expect them to get it. It takes about six to 10 experiential, immersive, contextually relevant experiences before someone finally “gets” it and can make it their own. Eight years later, we’re still building this skill into our employees, one experience at a time.
    • Bo Adams
      Bo Adams on 23 May 16
       
      Yep. I highlighted an entire paragraph. Why? Because this lesson is CRITICAL for schools and educational transformation within and among schools. We don't do enough "laps" with foundational things because people tend to say, "We've done that...I already do that..."
  • best advice I got from an SVP at the company was to stop wasting my time trying to find metrics to prove that Design for Delight was worth doing.
  • find the folks that are ready, willing, and happy to give it away.
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  • So, while you’re bringing design thinking capabilities into your company and empowering folks, don’t forget to use it on yourself, too.
  • The experience was so effective in helping the leaders understand how they get in the way that many went back to their teams to apologize and started removing barriers immediately. So, assume you can poke at those sacred cows.
  • Bo Adams on 23 May 16
     
    HT @MeghanCureton
Meghan Cureton

100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking - - 0 views

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questioning #mvifishares idiploma assessment

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  • Meghan Cureton on 23 May 16
     
    Excellent bank of questions to spur and scaffold self-directed learning and metacognitive behaviors in your classroom, workplace and your life
Jim Tiffin Jr

Pedagogy of Play | Project Zero - 0 views

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Project Zero Harvard play research maker-centered learning learning environment #LiquidNetworkSpill #mvifishares

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  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 18 Aug 16
     
    A new (2016) research project coming out of Harvard. With play a component of the motivation cycle for innovators, this growing body of work may be worth following.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 18 Aug 16
     
    A new (2016) research project coming out of Harvard. With play a component of the motivation cycle for innovators, this growing body of work may be worth following.
Bo Adams

Rethinking High School Graduation Requirements: Project & Microcredentials - Vander Ark... - 0 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._project_microcredentials.html

high school graduation requirements #mvifishares #MustRead

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  • Bo Adams on 19 Aug 16
     
    Rethinking graduation requirements: 20 projects, 10 microcredentials. HT @akytle
Bo Adams

Unstructured Play Results in Cognitive Benefits - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...495545

play #MustRead #mvifishares

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  • Play lets the young learn by randomly and variably trying out a range of actions and ideas, and then working out the consequences.
  • The positive consequence is that animals who play are better at generating new possibilities.
  • they were more likely to imagine other ways the world might be.
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  • The gift of play is the way it teaches us how to deal with the unexpected.
  • The irony is that over the long term, both children’s and adults’ play does lead to practical benefits. But it does this precisely because the people who play, whether they are children or adults, aren’t aiming at those practical benefits. The fundamental paradox of play is that in order to be able to reach a variety of new goals in the long run, you have to actively turn away from goal seeking in the short run.
  • If it had no other rationale, the sheer pleasure of play would be justification enough.
  • Bo Adams on 18 Aug 16
     
    HT @NAISnetwork
Jim Tiffin Jr

'Maker' movement inspires hands-on learning | The Seattle Times - 0 views

www.seattletimes.com/...ent-inspires-hands-on-learning

maker Maker Movement tinkering pedagogy learning constructionism article #LiquidNetworkSpill #mvifishares School Change

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  • Tinkering is being promoted on college campuses from MIT to Santa Clara University, as well as in high schools and elementary schools.
  • The blending of technology and craft in tools like 3-D printers and laser cutters has made it possible for ordinary people to make extraordinary things. And many ordinary people, living as they do, more and more in their heads and online, are yearning to do something with their hands.
  • Constructionist Approach
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 Aug 16
       
      This is the term that we are missing in our current MDE nomenclature!
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  • Yes, tinkering is now a pedagogy.
  • “You’re exploring creativity, you’re exploring design thinking, you’re developing a sense of persistence,” she says. Building something new requires planning, trying and, yes, failing, and then trying again. “These are incredibly important mind-set for today’s world,” she says.
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 Aug 16
       
      Music to my ears!
  • talks excitedly about students who have designed child prostheses. “That’s what they’re going to remember their entire life,” she says. “They aren’t going to remember sitting in an electronics lecture.”
    • Jim Tiffin Jr
      Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 Aug 16
       
      It is about creating experiences that help students see the world as a malleable place.
  • Alexandra Garey, who graduated from Rutgers last year, credits tinkering with changing the course of her studies, and life: “I went from somebody who was majoring in Italian and European studies to someone who was designing and prototyping products and realizing any product that came into my head.”
  • “U.S. schools are very good at finding the brain-smart people,” he says. “They are also very good at finding the best athletes.” But they are not so good at finding and nurturing people who, he said, describing himself, think with their fingers.
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 19 Aug 16
     
    A fabulous article full of stories about the impact of maker-centered learning experiences, and the growing number of places that provide them - elementary schools, high school, colleges, public. Perhaps most gratifying is the use of distinctly maker-centered AND educational terminology in the same article. A great sign of things to come!
T.J. Edwards

How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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  • Engineering has been getting a lot of attention because of its real-world applications and clear job prospects, but learning to think like an engineer could be useful no matter what students decide to pursue for work
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      Not making engineers....learning to think like
  • all ninth-graders
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      What if Ted was required for all?
  • I felt like I didn’t know how to make enough stuff,”
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  • Pilla worked as a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin before switching to teaching. “I didn’t have enough experience working on and planning out a really big project,”
  • That’s what he tries to give his students in high school.
  • When students newer to making come in excited to take on a project, the old hands help them get up to speed on the skills. And a lot of those projects are about improving the school itself.
  • Tiarra Bell, a senior at SLA Center City. Design drew her into engineering. She experimented with architecture and industrial design, but has really become passionate about furniture design. She now makes and sells her own furniture.
  • Kamal and Pilla meet with an advisory group of engineering industry professionals periodically to make sure their program is truly equipping students with the skills they’ll need to go into these fields later
  • The experts say students need to be able to write, to find problems, to communicate, to Google, to understand constraints. They need to be creative, take thoughtful risks and have a “fearlessness to leap.
  • robotics, senior engineering, astronomy and space sciences, MakerSpace, electronics and programming)
    • T.J. Edwards
      T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
       
      Seems like a lot. Too many choices?
  • To me it’s not about becoming an engineer in college or after. It’s about the critical thinking and the challenges and the creativity that comes with it,”
T.J. Edwards

PBL, STEAM, & CTE: Validation through Triangulation | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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#mvifishares pbl steam cte project based learning

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  • identifying ways that STEAM, CTE, and PBL have a unique three-way symbiotic relationship
  • So, with CTE, one or more of the STE(A)M subjects naturally is embedded within it, especially when applied to key knowledge, understanding, & success skills. Sound familiar? That’s the focus at the center of Gold Standard PBL! So what about the Essential Project Design Elements of PBL as applying STE(A)M within CTE?
  • what if an Engineering and Architecture Pathway student was asked to use CAD to design a home using passive solar construction techniques, much like the Anasazi did before electricity and indoor plumbing?
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  • Integrating CTE and STE(A)M in this manner raises the bar to the rigorous level of PBL.
  • Then I realized that all of the CTE industry sectors have these same standards, so they apply to STE(A)M and PBL in the same manner as the example above from Architecture and Engineering.
  • T.J. Edwards on 09 Sep 16
     
    Makes me happy that Career Tech is mentioned as a vehicle for more rigorous PBL and STEAM and not as a program for "underachievers"
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