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Meghan Cureton

Why A School's Master Schedule Is A Powerful Enabler of Change | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views

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#mvifishares School Change real-world MindShift

shared by Meghan Cureton on 26 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • He and a team of teachers set out to try to reconfigure how this big high school could structurally put student relationships with teachers at the center, and value mastery of content above all else.
  • ‘If we don’t match our minutes to our mission, [teachers are] not going to shift.’
  • biggest obstacles to instructional changes of the sort Smith and his team were trying to engineer was the school schedule itself.
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  • Our schedule is a function of what we’re trying to create
  • It’s sloppy, but hell, life is sloppy
  • They started with ninth grade
  • Changing is hard and when people get tired they will want to return to the status quo.
  • many schools start a school transformation project with energy and vigor, but when leaders run into outside pressures from the district or can’t pick their way through the complex system they run out of momentum.
  • That’s why it’s important not to toss away good teaching practices just because they’ve been around for years.
  • He doesn’t want it to become orderly because that’s not the natural state of human systems.
  • Individual success stories of students are what help keep him going.
T.J. Edwards

T.J. Edwards on Twitter: "#mustread on Feedback & Assessment myths. https://t.co/lSrE32... - 3 views

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shared by T.J. Edwards on 15 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • T.J. Edwards on 15 Nov 16
     
    Feedback and Assessment Myths
T.J. Edwards

http://www.timeandlearning.org/sites/default/files/resources/deeperlearningreport_0.pdf - 1 views

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#mvifishares mvx

shared by T.J. Edwards on 11 Sep 17 - No Cached
  • T.J. Edwards on 11 Sep 17
     
    5 Innovative schools share their creative use of time - and actual schedules - for deeper learning
T.J. Edwards

Innovation vs Circulasticity | EdCan Network - 1 views

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    "Circulasticity"
T.J. Edwards

Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1 views

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#mvifishares systems designthinking

shared by T.J. Edwards on 20 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • T.J. Edwards on 20 Mar 18
     
    Using human centered design and systems thinking to redesign "subs" experience in schools
Meghan Cureton

Neuroscience Should Inform School Policies - Education Week - 1 views

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learning community neuroscience #mvifishares

shared by Meghan Cureton on 16 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • key secondary school reform efforts need to emphasize learning activities involving metacognition, goal-setting, planning, working memory, reflection on one's learning, and frequent opportunities to make responsible choices.
  • What is essential for kids at this time of life is to be engaged in real-life learning experiences and peer-learning connections that put them under conditions of "hot cognition," where educators can help them along in the process of integrating their impulsiveness (positively viewed as excitement and motivation) with their reasoning abilities.
  • The implications for reform of secondary school are clear. Schools should provide more opportunities for students to be involved in apprenticeships, internships, service learning, community-based learning, small peer-learning groups, entrepreneur-based programs, and student-directed project-based learning
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  • key part of the secondary school curriculum should involve the teaching of stress-reduction methods, such as mindfulness meditation, yoga, and aerobic activity; exercise breaks during class; a strong physical education curriculum; and a broadly based extracurricular sports program for all students, not just the star athletes.
  • prefrontal cortex, which is the region controlling inhibition of impulses and the ability to plan, reflect, self-monitor, and make good decisions, doesn't fully develop until the early 20s. This means that while the limbic system or "emotional brain" is working at close to full capacity by early adolescence, the areas of the brain that could temper those feelings and impulses are still in the process of being constructed.
  • Neuroscience Should Inform School Policies
  • Consequently, key secondary school reform efforts need to emphasize learning activities involving metacognition, goal-setting, planning, working memory, reflection on one's learning, and frequent opportunities to make responsible choices.
  • Classroom teaching that focuses largely on delivering content through lectures and textbooks fails to engage the emotional brain and leaves unchanged those prefrontal regions that are important in metacognition.
  • Locking students into a set academic college-bound program of courses takes away their ability to make decisions about what most interests them (a process that integrates the limbic system's motivational verve with the prefrontal cortex's decisionmaking capacity).
  • Neuroscience research tells us that the teenage brain is exquisitely sensitive to environmental influences. This neuroplasticity makes it vulnerable to a wide range of societal dangers—traffic accidents, drug abuse, suicide, violence. But it also makes it acutely sensitive to the influence of teachers, for good or for ill.
  • Bo Adams on 16 Oct 16
     
    "key secondary school reform efforts need to emphasize learning activities involving metacognition, goal-setting, planning, working memory, reflection on one's learning, and frequent opportunities to make responsible choices."
Meghan Cureton

5 Ways to Learn About Note-taking from Da Vinci - 0 views

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observation notes sketching learning innovation #mvifishares idiploma

shared by Meghan Cureton on 26 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Invoke your own system
  • constantly studied and observed
  • Remember to stick to a regular schedule and review your notes often
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  • Always Innovate
  • pursuit of knowledge and commitment to lifelong learning.
  • Cross-pollinate
  • He relied on the outside world and others to help empower and enrich his ideas.
  • It’s amazing how a few moments away can connect your ideas and thoughts to help solve your most frustrating challenges.
  • Promote Yourself
Meghan Cureton

Creating an Ecology of Wonder | Edutopia - 0 views

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#mvifishares inquiry art wonder pbl

shared by Meghan Cureton on 19 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • I believe that our most precious natural resources are imagination and wonder
  • Wonder leaves us with a sense of fascination about mysteries yet unsolved or questions yet unanswered.
  • In a learning ecology that focuses on wonder, an artful approach can be introduced in any subject area
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  • Art reveals patterns and connections that would otherwise remain unnoticed.
  • Create Assessments That Reward Good Questions, Not Just Good Answers
  • Develop Different Ways for Measuring Success
Meghan Cureton

What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning? | Edutopia - 0 views

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PBL Project-Based project-basedlearning Learning #mvifishares

shared by Meghan Cureton on 18 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • "PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end."
  • Teaching with PBL is the difference between the atmosphere at Disneyland and the atmosphere at a Six Flags resort.
  • PBL doesn't ask you to replace your content. It asks that you create a vehicle in which to communicate your content.
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  • "PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end."
  • PBL is the ongoing act of learning about different subjects simultaneously.
T.J. Edwards

Learning Matters More Than Education - 2 views

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#mvifishares schoolreform

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  • T.J. Edwards on 21 Aug 16
     
    I wonder if Bo Adams would agree that it's about learning ;)
T.J. Edwards

mathematics is art (all the mathematicians say so) - 0 views

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steam #mvifishares

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    via @megcureton
Meghan Cureton

Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn't convenient - The Hechinger R... - 0 views

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shared by Meghan Cureton on 28 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient
  • “The mind is a sheet of paper for a professor to write on.” But that’s the wrong way to think about education, he said. The right way, he argued, is to think of a human as a plant to which educators offer fertilizer and water and sunlight when it needs it, or wants it, most. “This is a very different model,” Sarma said, “but it’s so inconvenient we ignore it.”
  • cognitive load theory posits that working memory is limited. Students who hear new information store it first in working memory, but this is short-term memory, and all short-term memories will be forgotten. There’s no way around it. The key, according to Sarma, is reinforcing that information and getting it into long-term memory, where it will last. Students can only focus on new information for eight to 14 minutes before their minds start to wander, Sarma said, so the best method of instruction is to offer such new information in bite-sized chunks.
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  • information is stored in memories created by a chemical connection between neurons in the brain, Sarma said. Over time, that chemical dries up and the memory disappears. But if reminded of that information before the original memory disappears, the brain creates a new connection and one that is long-term. The best way to retain knowledge, according to memory research, is to learn about it once, wait until you’re about to forget it, and then learn it again.
  • Also in contrast to standard scheduling patterns in schools is the idea of interleaved learning. Sarma said the brain looks for contrast. Learning one thing and then jumping to another topic and back again is helpful for long-term retention,
  • Sarma sees the future of learning as blended, individuated, fluid and hands-on. Learning science supports his vision. The question is whether schools can be reorganized to do the same.
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