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Meghan Cureton

The Student- Hero Journey - Innovation in the Classroom - Don Wettrick - 0 views

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    Absolute must read for anyone working with, connected to, or interested in idiploma
T.J. Edwards

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

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    Read about the fine line between personal projects, passion projects, and self serving design junk.
Meghan Cureton

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

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    Excellent bank of questions to spur and scaffold self-directed learning and metacognitive behaviors in your classroom, workplace and your life
Meghan Cureton

Being a Successful Entrepreneur Isn't Only About Having the Best Ideas - 0 views

  • without the capacity to execute an idea — to take an idea and turn it into a living, breathing, viable organization — you’re doomed to fail.
  • In the end, most people equate entrepreneurship with ideas. But for many, the real entrepreneurship happens internally — with the process of stepping up, having courage, and doing things that you never thought you’d be able to do. By flexing your behavior and learning to act outside your comfort zone, you’ll be well on your way toward achieving your goals.
Bo Adams

Cognition switch: What employers can do to encourage their workers to retrain | The Eco... - 1 views

  • “learning velocity”—the process of going from a question to a good idea in a matter of days or weeks
  • amended its performance-review criteria to include an appraisal of how employees have learned from others and then applied that knowledge
  • firm has developed short courses called nanodegrees with Udacity
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  • is it possible for firms to screen candidates and employees on the basis of curiosity, or what psychologists call “need for cognition”?
  • second question is whether it is possible to train people to learn
  • too early to know whether traits such as curiosity can be taught. But it is becoming easier to turn individuals into more effective learners by making them more aware of their own thought processes
Meghan Cureton

Education Week - 0 views

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    Includes schools /tools to learn from as well as links to project portfolios
Bo Adams

Students' pocket park concept to be installed in Chamblee Whole Foods development | The... - 0 views

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    ""It was really powerful to be in a position where I was seen as more than a student. I don't get that feeling when I am presenting to my teacher, but I definitely felt that when we presented to Mr. Garrison because the stakes were so much higher," adds Sophomore Maxine Peterson."
Meghan Cureton

Noblesville High instructor pushes to change the educational system | 2016-05-25 | Indi... - 0 views

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    Don Wettrick's innovation class- if you haven't yet, read his book Pure Genius
T.J. Edwards

SMU disrupts design with new Master's in art and design innovation - 0 views

  • One of the mandatory classes places students in studio classes where they are given a client and a prompt to solve an open-ended problem using human-centered design.
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      Novel idea :)
  • The current client is Café Momentum, a nonprofit restaurant that trains and hires juvenile offenders. The problem students have to solve is that many of the young men who work at Café Momentum are unable to get a lease or live in unaffordable housing because of their age.
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      Sounds like fuse
  • Students can take two elective courses in almost any subject as long as they can justify why they are taking the classes. She also emphasized that MADI is for anyone.
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      Could this be a model for iD. Make room for more electives, and students should show how those electives will further work in iD
Meghan Cureton

Why You Should Change Your Goals Into Quests - Life Learning - Medium - 0 views

  • Our ‘busy-bragging’ epidemic has made being busy into a badge of honor in which moaning about one’s schedule has become a mark of social status.
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