SMU disrupts design with new Master's in art and design innovation - 0 views
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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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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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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.
The Systems Thinker - The "Thinking" in Systems Thinking: How Can We Make It Easier to ... - 0 views
When Everyone Is Doing Design Thinking, Is It Still a Competitive Advantage? - 1 views
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Design thinking has come a long way since I wrote about it here in 2008. The most valuable company in the world places design at the center of everything it does. Designers are on the founding team of countless disruptive startups. Domains such as healthcare, education, and government have begun to prototype, iterate, and build more nimbly with a human-centered focus. Now that design thinking is everywhere, it’s tempting to simply declare it dead—to ordain something new in its place. It’s a methodology always in pursuit of unforeseen innovation, so reinventing itself might seem like the smart way forward. But in practice, design thinking is a set of tools that can grow old with us.
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And I’d argue that in order to create sustained competitive advantage, businesses must be not just practitioners, but masters of the art.
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Why A School's Master Schedule Is A Powerful Enabler of Change | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views
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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.
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‘If we don’t match our minutes to our mission, [teachers are] not going to shift.’
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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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The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone - 0 views
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From kindergarten on, students spend thousands of hours studying subjects irrelevant to the modern labor market. Why do English classes focus on literature and poetry instead of business and technical writing? Why do advanced-math classes bother with proofs almost no student can follow? When will the typical student use history? Trigonometry? Art? Music? Physics? Latin? The class clown who snarks “What does this have to do with real life?” is onto something.
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The disconnect between college curricula and the job market has a banal explanation: Educators teach what they know
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Lest I be misinterpreted, I emphatically affirm that education confers some marketable skills, namely literacy and numeracy. Nonetheless, I believe that signaling accounts for at least half of college’s financial reward, and probably more.
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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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Unstoppable Learning: Making Room For Students' Passions - 1 views
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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.
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“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?'”
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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.
Mastering the Fine Art of Managing People | Inc.com - 0 views
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Our culture is also an amazing recruitment tool. When we share it with people online, it's like branding from the inside out.
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I want to know whether candidates are focused on selling themselves or are listening and learning.
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We try to hire people we'd be happy sitting next to on a plane during a cross-country flight.
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Why Curiosity Matters - 1 views
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And socially curious employees are better than others at resolving conflicts with colleagues, more likely to receive social support, and more effective at building connections, trust, and commitment on their teams. People or groups high in both dimensions are more innovative and creative.
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joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, stress tolerance, and social curiosity—improve work outcomes.
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joyous exploration has the strongest link with the experience of intense positive emotions. Stress tolerance has the strongest link with satisfying the need to feel competent, autonomous, and that one belongs. Social curiosity has the strongest link with being a kind, generous, modest person.
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Learning's Not a River - Dan Cristiani - Medium - 0 views
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the word ‘course’ is related to the running of a river
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Its hallmarks include rapidity, unidirectionality, linearity, and dependency.
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when a student takes a course, she is being led at pace down a narrow path in one direction.
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Competency based learning key characteristic: Outcomes-based - Blackboard Blog - 0 views
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The old concepts of quizzes, mid-term exams and final exams change from methods of judgment to an assessment system designed to help learners construct knowledge through a learn-practice-assess pathway.
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Achieve short-term and long-term academic performance improvements focused on outcomes rather than inputs
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Student learning outcomes are generally at the same level of granularity as competencies, and sometimes the terms are used interchangeably. A competency is a specific skill, knowledge, or ability that is both observable and measurable
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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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02_future_competences_and_the_future_of_curriculum_30oct.v2.pdf - 1 views
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An analysis of current contributions show that although there are substantial variations, most agree that competence is far more complex than skill, and that it comprises knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes.
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The most recurring examples include: – Creativity, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, curiosity, metacognition; – Digital, technology, and ICTs skills; – Basic, media, information, financial, scientific literacies and numeracy, – Cross-cultural skills, leadership, global awareness; – Initiative, self-direction, perseverance, responsibility, accountability, adaptability; and – Knowledge of disciplines, STEM mindset.
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Key challenges
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What's Worth Learning in School? | Ed Magazine - 0 views
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What’s worth learning in school?
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“Conventional curriculum is chained to the bicycle rack,” he says. “It sits solidly in the minds of parents: ‘I learned that. Why aren’t my children learning it?’ The enormous investment in textbooks and the cost of revising them gives familiar elements of the curriculum a longer life span than they might perhaps deserve. Curriculum suffers from something of a crowded garage effect: It generally seems safer and easier to keep the old bicycle around than to throw it out.” As a result, “the lifeworthiness of the multitudinous facts and ideas in the typical curriculum is spotty,” he says. “It seems not to have been thought through very carefully.”
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“Knowledge is for going somewhere,” Perkins says, not just for accumulating. But too often, we tend to focus on short-term successes — scoring well on a quiz, acing a spelling test. Unfortunately all of that test knowledge, all of that accumulated knowledge we thought was worth knowing, becomes useless if not used.
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How Good Is Good Enough? - Educational Leadership - 0 views
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Mastery is effective transfer of learning in authentic and worthy performance. Students have mastered a subject when they are fluent, even creative, in using their knowledge, skills, and understanding in key performance challenges and contexts at the heart of that subject, as measured against valid and high standards
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Wooden described his overall method like this: "I tried to teach according to the whole–part method. I would show them the whole thing to begin with. Then I'm going to break it down into the parts and work on the individual parts and then eventually bring them together"
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The constant process of bringing the parts back together in complex performance is what's routinely missing from many so-called mastery learning programs.
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