DIY Woodworking Projects and Plans| Ana White - 0 views
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Simple, and incredibly inspirational, projects for the DIY woodworker. A sortable catalog of projects for a variety of skill levels, including ones that kids and novices could do. Many have plans included with them! Perfect for incorporation into maker-centered classrooms at a variety of educational levels.
Neuroscience Should Inform School Policies - Education Week - 1 views
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key secondary school reform efforts need to emphasize learning activities involving metacognition, goal-setting, planning, working memory, reflection on one's learning, and frequent opportunities to make responsible choices.
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What is essential for kids at this time of life is to be engaged in real-life learning experiences and peer-learning connections that put them under conditions of "hot cognition," where educators can help them along in the process of integrating their impulsiveness (positively viewed as excitement and motivation) with their reasoning abilities.
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The implications for reform of secondary school are clear. Schools should provide more opportunities for students to be involved in apprenticeships, internships, service learning, community-based learning, small peer-learning groups, entrepreneur-based programs, and student-directed project-based learning
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Blips - Radar Journal - 0 views
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No organization understands volatility and disruption better than the U.S. military. This is why the Army disrupted its own planning methodology, the Field Manual, to include design thinking in order to help leaders develop adaptive thinking, alternative operation plans, and increased agility in a landscape of fast-changing, increasingly complex conflicts.
IBM's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business | WIRED - 1 views
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“We wanted to shift that culture towards a focus on users’ outcomes,” Hill says.
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IBM today published its very own set of design thinking guidelines—a selection of best design practices the company hopes other big businesses will look to as they seek to remain relevant and profitable in a rapidly evolving corporate landscape.
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corporate trend in design thinking
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Opinion | Stop Asking About My Kid's College Plans - The New York Times - 0 views
3 Ways to Unlock the Wisdom of Colleagues | Edutopia - 0 views
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when teachers have regular, structured opportunities to learn together, good ideas are more likely to travel from one classroom to the next.
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Collaboration takes time and planning. If classroom observation becomes part of a school’s strategy, administrators have to make time during the regular school day for shared professional learning among the staff. School leaders should also have to have clear objectives for the program of observation, and protocols to keep discussion on track and to ensure that the time isn’t wasted.
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A spirit of continuous learning permeates the school, which encourages all teachers
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3 Principles to Follow for Competency-Based Education | GOA - 1 views
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When it comes to competency-based learning (CBL), we must tend to our school cultures as deeply and thoughtfully as we tend to our classrooms.
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Adopting CBL means more than a shift in pedagogy; it means committing to a mindset and system that prioritize learning over time, skills over content, and relevant, holistic assessment over high-stakes testing.
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To build this culture, they focus on three essential elements.
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'Maker' movement inspires hands-on learning | The Seattle Times - 0 views
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Tinkering is being promoted on college campuses from MIT to Santa Clara University, as well as in high schools and elementary schools.
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The blending of technology and craft in tools like 3-D printers and laser cutters has made it possible for ordinary people to make extraordinary things. And many ordinary people, living as they do, more and more in their heads and online, are yearning to do something with their hands.
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Constructionist Approach
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A fabulous article full of stories about the impact of maker-centered learning experiences, and the growing number of places that provide them - elementary schools, high school, colleges, public. Perhaps most gratifying is the use of distinctly maker-centered AND educational terminology in the same article. A great sign of things to come!
How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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Engineering has been getting a lot of attention because of its real-world applications and clear job prospects, but learning to think like an engineer could be useful no matter what students decide to pursue for work
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all ninth-graders
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I felt like I didn’t know how to make enough stuff,”
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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.
Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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In an ideal world, the school day would reflect kids’ changing needs and rhythms. There would be time for free play; school would start later to allow time for students’ much-needed rest; the transition time between classes would be longer, allowing time for kids to walk down the hall and say hi to their friends and plan their next moves; kids would have the opportunity to step away from school “work” in order to regroup and process what they’ve absorbed. “The actual encoding of information doesn’t take place when you’re hunched over a desk,”
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The five criteria that Challenge Success brings to schools attempts to modernize the obsolete system in place today: scheduling, project based learning, alternative assessment, climate of care, and parent education
How Can Schools Prioritize For The Best Ways Kids Learn? | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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if the changes to education are all in the service of doing the same thing better, they may be missing the point.
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the current context demands a radically different vision of learning.
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examples of schools and districts that are asking themselves difficult questions to propel change. The successful ones are letting the answer to the question, “How do kids learn best?” drive everything they do in schools.
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Pop Up and Make: Student-Designed and Facilitated Makerspaces | Edutopia - 0 views
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received funds to design and implement pop-up makerspaces during the 2015-16 school year. These makerspaces include the 3D Fabrication Lab, Upcycling Shop, Music and Beat-Making Studio, Robotics and Hacking Space, Digital Storytelling Workshop, and Clothing and Fashion Design Closet.
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Each makerspace "pops up" in either a classroom, computer lab, commons area, or the cafeteria during the school's Smart Block, an open period for eating lunch, attending academic sessions, practicing sports and music -- and now for making things
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Fifteen students joined the event to make, co-develop, plan, and become Maker Mentors.
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Go play! It's the key to developing executive function - Hanna Perkins Center for Child... - 0 views
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“executive function,” the ability to self-regulate, the measurement of which turns out to be a better indicator of success in school than the results of an IQ test. Kids with good self-regulation skills are better able to control their emotions, resist impulsive behavior, and become self-disciplined and self-controlled.
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how do we reconcile today’s anxious parents and the highly structured environment with our children’s need for unstructured, self-regulated play?
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The primary requirement for unsupervised play is uninterrupted stretches of time
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Though this post is written for parents, there are actions and ideas here that teachers can act upon. The importance of play and its benefits are becoming more and more apparent - plus research is supporting it. Note to self: More research on executive function, and ways of building it in schools, needs to be done. HT: Jackie Gerstein
One Small Step…in Time - 0 views
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High Tech founding principal Larry Rosenstock realised if he wanted a more collaborative project-based pedagogy across the school in line with their beliefs about learning, then he would have to make time for his teachers to work together.
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He also knew that after school, at the end of a long day is never a good time, so he rescheduled his school day …and school year to provide his teachers with time to meet in teams for at least one hour for planning and staff development every day before school
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.
The Most Famous Nursery Schools in the World - And What They Can Teach Us - 0 views
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“We have not correctly legitimized a culture of childhood,” says Lella Gandini, a longtime Reggio teacher, “and the consequences are seen in all our social, economic, and political choices and investments.”
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To counter this, Reggio’s schools are relentlessly child-centered — not to achieve notable results in literacy and numeracy, but to achieve notable qualities of identity formation and to ensure that all children know how to belong to a community.
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The teachers follow the children, not plans.”
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A 'University' Model for High School | Edutopia - 0 views
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recent launch of Learning Pathways, a competency-based approach to instruction that emphasizes self-paced, personalized learning.
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interdisciplinary coursework and out-of-school learning experiences
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To evolve their teaching practice, teachers need to carve out dedicated time to regularly observe and reflect—on themselves and their peers—say Anderson and other staff.
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