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Bo Adams

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 0 views

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deeperlearning innovation discovery interdisciplinary transdisciplinary realworldlearning School Change #MustRead #mvifishares

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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.
  • The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
  • The time is now to support the role of learning in the pursuit of discovery and to embrace the powerful agency of culture.
Bo Adams

Our Education System Needs More Architects - of School Redesign - Medium - 0 views

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  • Bo Adams on 01 Nov 16
     
    HT @MeghanCureton
Bo Adams

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

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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
Meghan Cureton

Improv(e)ing Education . . . - My Improvised Life: Musings Of A Multipotentialite Educa... - 0 views

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improv education Innovation #MustRead #mvifishares

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  • Meghan Cureton on 10 Sep 16
     
    Assessment of 4Cs through improv!
T.J. Edwards

Why we should bring back vocational training | MNN - Mother Nature Network - 0 views

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  • College isn't for everyone.
  • That's 59 out of 100 students whose high school program (or life situations) didn't prepare them for the type of work they'll be doing for the rest of their lives
  • The demise of vocational education at the high school level has bred a skills shortage in manufacturing today, and with it a wealth of career opportunities for both under-employed college grads and high school students looking for direct pathways to interesting, lucrative careers."
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  • Because my high school offered auto mechanics as part of a region-wide vocational program, I thought I could add that onto my course load with some careful maneuvering of classes. The problem was, I was a strong student academically. And the part of New York where I'm from, like many other places, separated students into academic versus vocational training tracks — and never the twain shall meet
  • just because someone studies to be a car mechanic doesn't mean they won't love Shakespeare or calculus is just as silly as assuming that someone headed to college doesn't need to know how to fix a car.
  • but I never really "use" trigonometry either
  • vocational programs for everyone would allow academically oriented kids to find new hobbies or new ways to solve problems, and would also destigmatize the jobs that they're connected to — which are necessary, interesting and challenging. There's more than one path to success
Bo Adams

Unstoppable Learning: Making Room For Students' Passions - 1 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...unstoppable-learning

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shared by Bo Adams on 08 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • This always happens, I reflected. I get the best ideas when I have more time to listen, to read, to run. I always learn the most when I have space just to think. As a new mother and a classroom teacher, lead teacher, mentor, fellow, friend, and wife, my days are jam packed. Further, my time is often completely scheduled. The time and space to read and think is few and far between. But making space for it is so, so important.
    • Bo Adams
      Bo Adams on 08 Nov 16
       
      How are we making time for "space just to think?" How are we building and innovating future and current programs so that student-learners have time for "space just to think?"
  • “As your teacher, my job is not only to help you learn and master our objectives and standards, but much more importantly, to help you become lifelong learners. In order to be those kinds of scholars, I need to give you space and time to ask yourself, ‘What am I curious about? What do I want to pursue?'”
  • But I think we can do even better. I feel strongly that it’s my responsibility to foster curiosity, and give my students MANY opportunities throughout the day to choose, to make responsible choices for themselves, because they are thinking actively about what they are curious about, and making a plan about how to pursue those interests.
Meghan Cureton

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

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  • 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

Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage · Collaborative Fund - 0 views

www.collaborativefund.com/...urces-of-competitive-advantage

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  • The key to business and investing success isn’t finding an advantage. It’s having a sustainable advantage.
  • That leaves doing something others aren’t willing to do as the top source of sustainable competitive advantage. Here are five big ones.
  • “strong beliefs, weakly held,”
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  • “the curse of knowledge,”
  • Business success doesn’t necessarily go to those with the best product. It goes to whoever is the most persuasive.
  • Most business edges are found at the intersection of trust and simplicity.
  • Having no appetite for being wrong means you’ll only attempt things with high odds of working. And those things tend to be only slight variations on what you’re already doing, which themselves are things that, in a changing world, may soon be obsolete.
  • “If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your inventiveness.”
  • Bo Adams on 29 Nov 16
     
    HT Christian Talbot
Meghan Cureton

Assessment, Choice, and the Learning Brain | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...d-learning-brain-glenn-whitman

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shared by Meghan Cureton on 14 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • If you really want to see how innovative a school is, inquire about its thinking and practices regarding assessment.
  • students who develop mastery goals are motivated by the actual learning experiences. Their rewards arise from the challenges of acquiring and applying new knowledge and skills.
  • students who are motivated by mastery goals are more likely to persevere in the face of such challenges. Difficult tasks or setbacks do not diminish their motivation or self-esteem
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  • Timely feedback has been shown to deepen one's memory for the material assessed
  • Finally, studies suggest that marking answers right or wrong (as in multiple choice tests) has little effect on learning. However, providing the correct response only after a student has spent time "struggling" to find the correct answer significantly increases retention of the material
  • having students reconstruct what they know through alternative assessments leads to deeper understanding and consolidates learning in more powerful ways than traditional testing
  • While students manage to keep enough dates, facts, and formulas in their head to pass the test, this knowledge never made it to long-term declarative memory, it was never truly learned at all (only memorized in the short term).
  • Meghan Cureton on 14 Dec 16
     
    Great read as we are in the throes of final exams...
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