Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity - Brain Pickings - 0 views
Share, Record, Network | The Life of Pinya - 0 views
The Art of Getting Opponents to "We" - The New York Times - 0 views
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Significantly, participants all came to align behind a single vision statement — and now they are actively communicating and advancing that vision nationwide through their organizations and networks. They host meetings with educational networks, superintendents, principals, teachers and philanthropists, reach out to libraries, museums and after-school programs, and identify and connect pioneers in learner-centered education.
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Convergence staff and facilitators work to create a “safe space,” maintaining a strict neutrality and ensuring that everyone feels heard, says Fersh. It’s important that participants “feel they’re not in a place that’s already cooked or leaning toward any solutions.”
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Convergence staff members look continually for opportunities to forge connections among participants. They begin meetings with “connecting” questions — for example: “When did you know that education was of great importance to you?” — that are designed to reveal people’s values and experiences, rather than highlight their disagreements. The objective is not to sweep differences under the rug, but to build rapport that a group needs to grapple effectively with its differences.
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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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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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The Next Big Thing in Design - IDEO Stories - Medium - 0 views
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bringing human-centered design to education, government, healthcare — the sectors that need it most — requires a few important culture shifts:1. We need to bust out of siloed design practices.2. We need to develop ever-broader capacities, taking an interdisciplinary, deeply collaborative approach.
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We turn our own questions on ourselves: What if we could help design education that readies today’s kids for the technologically enhanced (and challenged) environment they’ll grow up into? While we’re at it, what if we could then start addressing the very policy that shapes those educational institutions? That kind of moonshot systems thinking requires both agility and scale — it requires networked organizations and creative collectives. It requires designers who never stand still.
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when individuals with their own aspirations and talents come together to build upon each other’s work and drive toward a greater goal, we can gain traction on much bigger challenges — and find new ways forward.
Badges | Computer Science Student Network - 0 views
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connect accomplishments with a compact, portable form of recognition designed to motivate earners to pursue further achievement.
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since Badges can be awarded in real-time, they can be used as milestone markers in formative assessment.
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Hierarchy and Evidence
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The Future of Big Data and Analytics in K-12 Education - Education Week - 0 views
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data scientists would then search the waters for patterns in each student's engagement level, moods, use of classroom resources, social habits, language and vocabulary use, attention span, academic performance, and more.
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would be fed to teachers, parents, and students via AltSchool's digital learning platform and mobile app, which are currently being tested
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AltSchool's 50-plus engineers, data scientists, and developers are designing tools that could be available to other schools by the 2018-19 school year.
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Eventually, Ventilla envisions AltSchool technology facilitating an exponential increase in the amount of information collected on students in school, all in service of expanding the hands-on, project-based model of learning in place at the six private school campuses the company currently operates in Silicon Valley and New York City.
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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Four Design Parameters for Rethinking Professional Learning | GOA - 0 views
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At its best, professional learning can be networked, collaborative, growth-oriented and focused on what learning science tell us about how humans learn best: through relevant, job-embedded, applied, and experiential learning
Applying Learning in Multiple Contexts | Edutopia - 0 views
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New learning is fragile until something is done with it.
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Providing students with directed opportunities to employ multifaceted manipulation of information promotes strong, transferrable memory creation.
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This engages multiple regions in the brain in the processing of new learning, generating a more expansive, interconnected network of communication among stored memories. This cross-referencing strengthens memory creation in several ways.
The Case For Competency-Based Education | Getting Smart - 0 views
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transformed schools that feature tasks and projects that challenge young people in authentic ways to build design, collaboration, and communication skills that prepare young people for navigating new and complex situations.
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Quality preparation. Much of the corporate training world has shifted from participation to demonstrated skills in order to improve job readiness.
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Equity. If gap-closing equity is a stated goal, then structures, schedules, and supports can be aimed at struggling learners that need more time and assistance to accelerate their learning
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"Will this be on the test?" - The Startup - Medium - 1 views
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Students are on this bus because they want to be.
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Experiences are at the heart of change. We change when we do something, when we interact with the world.
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The backbone is a hand-built, peer-to-peer learning environment, not a series of lectures.
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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers | MindShift | KQED ... - 0 views
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seven questions that he thinks should become standard in the interviewing and hiring process
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Question #1: How do you teach students to become problem designers?
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Question #4: What does your global network look like?
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