Powerful learning begins to manifest when students take responsibility and ownership for their learning — when they become co-creators of their learning experience, rather than their education being something that is done to them. True student empowerment and engagement begins when we cross the threshold of co-creation.
Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.
the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
Call it the "learning paradox": the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to master new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.
The biggest is to spend some time teaching students how to take notes, and then consistently check in with students to make sure they are keeping up their notebooks
Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
Character is about how we engage in the world.
Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
Schools that utilize educational technology effectively do so in a strategic way. A strategic methodology promotes sustainability, or long term use, where a deep understanding of how the technology supports learning can develop, further leading to even more effective application.