Breadth and Depth: Can We Have It Both Ways? - Learning Deeply - Education Week - 0 views
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There may be ways to have it both ways. On further reflection, it seems as if breadth and depth are much more intertwined then they initially appear; it is not possible to become a deep inquirer in a subject without some broader understanding that goes around the specific thing you are exploring.
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The T represents people who are moderately knowledgeable across a domain, and deeply knowledgeable within a strand of that domain.
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Essential questions that force integration of breadth and depth -- Imagine if you took that same 9th grade "Mesopotamia to the French Revolution" course and organized it instead around the following essential question: "Why do civilizations rise and fall?"
NAIS - The Learning Curve: How We Learn and Rethinking the Education Model - 0 views
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Unlike Semmelweis, whose theory about the need for cleanliness was rejected because it lacked the scientific support that Louis Pasteur’s germ theory would eventually provide, today we have ample research that suggests a mismatch between learners and schools—a mismatch between how people learn and how educators think they learn.
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emotion and cognition are intertwined and inseparable
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“Emotion is the rudder for thought,”
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PBL, STEAM, & CTE: Validation through Triangulation | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views
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identifying ways that STEAM, CTE, and PBL have a unique three-way symbiotic relationship
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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?
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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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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers? | M... - 0 views
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Learning science says people learn best when they apply new information to their own contexts.
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The ability to try it right away in my classroom and to get feedback from my colleagues and the person running the micro-credential was really important
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He likes that he can choose to earn micro-credentials in areas of his practice where he wants to improve and that he can complete them with flexibility, contributing when he has time.
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Reflection: The possible, essential work of redesigning the High-School Experience - Th... - 0 views
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Reflection of a student's participation in the d.school's Protopalooza in which the redesign of high school was the topic. She shares valuable takeaways from the experience, particularly around the ideas of prototyping and expanding the ways in which she views learning can occur...beyond what her previous educational experiences had lead her to believe.
The Evolution of Simplicity - The New York Times - 0 views
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Of course there’s a struggle to regain control of your own attention, to set priorities about what you will think about, to see fewer things but to see them more deeply.
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an exercise in identity discovery, an exercise in realizing and then prioritizing your current tastes and beliefs. People who do that may instinctively be seeking higher forms of pruning: being impeccable with your words, parsimonious but strong with your commitments, disciplined about your time, selective about your friendships, moving generally from fragmentation toward unity of purpose. There’s an enviable emotional tranquillity at the end of that road.
transforming_teaching_learning_and_assessment.pdf - 1 views
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T o make space for learner voice and to promote learner agency, teachers must set up learning environments that stimulate active learner engagement with meaningful and progressively challenging tasks that stimulate their thinking and enable them to develop competence over time. Unlike subject content, competence cannot be transmitted to learners. Rather, competence is progressively developed by learners through appropriate facilitation.
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Table 1. The Role of Learners in Competence-Based Curricula
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A “growth mindset” (Dweck, 2006). essential for developing intrinsic motivation.
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Project-Based Learning Through a Maker's Lens | Edutopia - 5 views
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A Maker is an individual who communicates, collaborates, tinkers, fixes, breaks, rebuilds, and constructs projects for the world around him or her.
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A Maker, re-cast into a classroom, has a name that we all love: a learner.
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A Maker, just like a true learner, values the process of making as much as the product.
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The messy, hands-on Maker classroom is perfect for a PBL unit when the teacher is willing to collaborate, tinker, fix, break, and rebuild alongside students. Some fundamental elements to consider in the designing of a maker-centered project, but not as absolutes. It is important to realize that any project taken on in a maker-centered classroom is, by definition, a PBL experience.
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Fabulous piece about the myriad connection among PBL and Maker. And your commentary is so helpful and provocative. Thank you!
The 10 Biggest Breakthroughs in the Science of Learning | Brainscape Blog - 3 views
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The brain is equipped to tackle a pretty hefty load of information and sensory input, but there is a point at which the brain becomes overwhelmed, an effect scientists call cognitive overload. While our brains do appreciate new and novel information (as we’ll discuss later), when there is too much of it we become overwhelmed. Our minds simply can’t divide our attention between all the different elements.
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the brain’s wiring can change at any age and it can grow new neurons and adapt to new situations — though the rate at which this happens does slow with age. This phenomenon is called neuroplasticity, and it has had major ramifications in our understanding of how the brain works and how we can use that understanding to improve learning outcomes.
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The ability to learn, retain, and use information isn’t just based on our raw IQ. Over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that how we feel — our overall emotional state — can have a major impact on how well we can learn new things.
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Neuroscience Should Inform School Policies - Education Week - 1 views
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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.
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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.
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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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LinkedIn's 2017 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report - 0 views
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65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately hold jobs that don’t yet exist.
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Here’s what we found:
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Tech is king:
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What IS the difference between competencies and standards? | reDesign - 2 views
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Competencies, on the other hand, tend to emphasize the application of skills, knowledge and dispositions rather than content knowledge.
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Competency-based models approach content as the backdrop, while putting essential skills and dispositions front and center. In this way, content serves as the context for practicing and demonstrating “transferable” competencies that can be applied in different contexts.
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In competency-based models, the entire system must change. Students advance upon mastery when they are ready, not when an arbitrary academic calendar suggests that they should be.
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3 Principles to Follow for Competency-Based Education | GOA - 1 views
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When it comes to competency-based learning (CBL), we must tend to our school cultures as deeply and thoughtfully as we tend to our classrooms.
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Adopting CBL means more than a shift in pedagogy; it means committing to a mindset and system that prioritize learning over time, skills over content, and relevant, holistic assessment over high-stakes testing.
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To build this culture, they focus on three essential elements.
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Using Design Principles to Build a Culture of Innovation | Edutopia - 1 views
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two essential design practices: changing your point of view and prototyping
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To get started with prototyping, come up with the smallest possible experiment to see if you’re on the right track and avoid the tyranny of the rollout.
The Power of Hidden Teams - 0 views
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the most powerful factor was simply whether or not respondents reported doing most of their work on a team. Those who did were more than twice as likely to be fully engaged as those who said they did most of their work alone. The local, ground-level experience of work — the people they worked with and their interactions with them — trumped everything else.
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The team is the reality of your experience at work.
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The quality of this team experience is the quality of your work experience.
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