American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 0 views
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Culture labs conduct or invite experiments in art and design to explore contemporary questions that seem hard or even impossible to address in more conventional science and engineering labs.
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The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
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The time is now to support the role of learning in the pursuit of discovery and to embrace the powerful agency of culture.
College of Arts & Sciences to Pilot Groundbreaking Curriculum Changes | UVA Today - 0 views
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.@UVA_College faculty at #UVA approve groundbreaking pilot of new liberal arts curriculum: https://t.co/6m4p8Op52T HT @jbrettjacobsen via @daveostroff
Design thinking in the corporate DNA - Medium - 1 views
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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.
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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.
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find the folks that are ready, willing, and happy to give it away.
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Unstructured Play Results in Cognitive Benefits - The Atlantic - 0 views
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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.
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The positive consequence is that animals who play are better at generating new possibilities.
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they were more likely to imagine other ways the world might be.
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It's Not Just About the Projects | Getting Smart - 0 views
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Aligning Assessment to Brain Science - 1 views
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The most powerful learners are those who are reflective, who engage in metacognition – thinking about what they know – and who take control of their own learning
Authentic Design Challenges in Project-Based Learning: Fostering Innovators - Medium - 0 views
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By connecting Design Thinking with Project-Based Learning, these amazing teams helped their students see how innovation and imagination can solve not just local challenges, but those faced by humans around the world. The design process required the kind of critique and revision PBL asks of students, and the resulting increases in risk taking and resilience will serve students well in any field. Most importantly, by grounding the design work in empathy interviews and authentic challenges, students were invited not only to witness the world as it is, but also to begin crafting the world as it might be.