"It's not just the reading and math skills; it's also the planning, problem solving and working collaboratively. When do we believe students will develop the dispositions to persevere over time with a challenging project and hold themselves to high standards of quality? These skills and mindsets -- collectively known as Deeper Learning -- can only be built through long-term practice in classrooms where students work together on significant projects."
Whether kids are watching TV, creating digital media, reading, searching, or playing video games with parents, siblings or friends, consuming media becomes a different kind of experience than when it’s done alone.
Plenty of studies have shown that kids learn more when they’re consuming media alongside their parents
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The design-thinking philosophy requires the designer to put his or her ego to the side and seek to meet the unmet needs, both rational and emotional, of the user,
Once the student designers have gathered all their research together, they must organize and make sense of it all
Finally, design thinking requires designers to generate ideas—lots of ideas—and prototype them
the key elements of design thinking will be familiar to any teacher well-versed in the basics of effective teaching: start with empathy, move ego to the side, and support students in the process of failing often and early on their way to learning
The philosophy behind the flip is that teachers can spend time working with students who need their help in the classroom — and students can work together to solve problems