What's the Use? Understanding Understanding | The Curiosity Shop - Teaching & Learning ... - 1 views
Why I Don't Grade | Jesse Stommel - 2 views
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grades are the biggest and most insidious obstacle to education.
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Agency, dialogue, self-actualization, and social justice are not possible in a hierarchical system that pits teachers against students and encourages competition by ranking students against one another.
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Certainly, metacognition, and the ability to self-assess, must be developed, but I see it as one of the most important skills we can teach in any educational environment.
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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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Why we should bring back vocational training | MNN - Mother Nature Network - 0 views
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College isn't for everyone.
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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
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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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Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded - The New York Times - 0 views
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We all need to be needed.
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Virtually all the world’s major religions teach that diligent work in the service of others is our highest nature and thus lies at the center of a happy life.
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Americans who prioritize doing good for others are almost twice as likely to say they are very happy about their lives.
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Stop Trying to "Do It All" - 99U - 1 views
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Naturally, it’s the same with your work: any given hour, week or year dedicated to one project can’t be used for another.
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When a friend asks if you’ll jump on board with her new business, or a possible freelance gig arrives by email, you’ll see more clearly what you’re giving up in exchange. Which means that if you do decide to say yes, you’ll be freed from the nagging worry that you ought to be doing something else.
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Or follow Warren Buffet’s suggestion: list your 25 top career goals, choose the five you value the most, then treat the remaining 20 as your “avoid at all costs” list.
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The perils of "Growth Mindset" education: Why we're trying to fix our kids when we shou... - 0 views
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The problem with sweeping, generic claims about the power of attitudes or beliefs isn’t just a risk of overstating the benefits but also a tendency to divert attention from the nature of the tasks themselves: How valuable are they, and who gets to decide whether they must be done?
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Unfortunately, even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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praise kids for their effort (“You tried really hard”) rather than for their ability (“You’re really smart”)
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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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Students Design, Tinker, Create and Discover through Maker-based Learning | NextGen Lea... - 1 views
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The nature of maker-based learning actively engages students, nurtures their agency, improves efficacy, and develops a creator or producer identity instead of a (passive) consumer one.
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In Thomas’ experience, too many people fail to reflect on WHY they’re choosing certain tools, and HOW those tools will be integrated into the curriculum and culture of school.
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Sometimes the impetus for making is a practical problem. Other times, play, curiosity and imagination are the motivators. Regardless, researchers from Harvard's Project Zero agree, "maker experiences help students learn to pursue their own passions and become self-directed learners, proactively seeking out knowledge and resources on their own" (Agency by Design, p. 3). HT Parker Thomas
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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NAIS - 10 Ways to Teach Outdoor Education and a Sense of Wonder - 2 views
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Love for the outdoors comes from learning through play, exploration, guidance, fun, and wondering.
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Learn the natural and human history of the place you are working in order to be open and aware of teachable moments—and to gain your own sense of being. A sense of wonder is the greatest gift you can give children.
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There are two parts to having a well-developed sense of wonder. One part is the ability to see the wonder in the world (the “wow,” the “amazing,” the “how is that possible?”). It also is the ability to wonder, to ask questions, to know there is more to know.
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Designing for Learning - Modern Learners - 1 views
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If we were really intent on improving learning inside the school walls, we would pay a lot more attention to how learning happens outside the school walls in the natural world and then build our practice based on that.
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What do you want our children to be?” It is that question that needs to define everything about what a school is.
Creating an Ecology of Wonder | Edutopia - 0 views
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I believe that our most precious natural resources are imagination and wonder
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Wonder leaves us with a sense of fascination about mysteries yet unsolved or questions yet unanswered.
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In a learning ecology that focuses on wonder, an artful approach can be introduced in any subject area
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You Don't Find Your Purpose - You Build It - 3 views
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Put differently, purpose is a thing you build, not a thing you find. Almost any work can possess remarkable purpose.
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For almost everyone, there’s no one thing we can find. It’s not purpose but purposes we are looking for — the multiple sources of meaning that help us find value in our work and lives
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Acknowledging these multiple sources of purpose takes the pressure off of finding a single thing to give our lives meaning.
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What is Unschooling? - The Natural Child Project - 1 views
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Unschooling isn't a method, it is a way of looking at children and at life.
Inverse Relationship Between GPA and Innovative Orientation - 0 views
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“I think academic environments are artificial environments.
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People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment.
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You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.
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