"William Shakespeare, the bard behind some of the greatest works in the English language, is coming to a Facebook page near you. Weekly Reader has teamed up with the Ophelia Project and White Plains High School to re-enact one of Shakespeare's plays on Facebook from April 26 to 28.
Much Ado About Nothing will be presented on a special page through status updates, posts, pictures and videos. The students helped create separate pages for their characters complete with pictures, in-character bios and likes. The project is meant both as an educational resource and a tool to combat cyber bullying.
ABSTRACT This article outlines a learning intervention which the authors call Learning by Design.
The goal of this intervention is classroom and curriculum transformation, and the professional learning
of teachers. The experiment involves the practical application of the learning theory to everyday
classroom practice. Its ideas are grounded in pedagogical principles originally articulated in the
Multiliteracies project, an approach to teaching and learning that addresses literacy and learning in the
context of new media and the globalizing knowledge economy. The need for a new approach to
learning arises from a complex range of factors - among them, changes in society and the economy;
the potential for new forms of communication made possible by emerging technologies; and rising
expectations amongst learners that education will maximize their potential for personal fulfillment,
civic participation and access to work. The authors first brought together the Learning by Design team
of researchers and teachers in 2003 in order to reflect upon and create new and dynamic learning
environments. A series of research and development activities were embarked upon in Australia and,
more recently, in the United States, exploring the potentials of new pedagogical approaches, assisted by
digital technologies, to transform today's learning environments and create learning for the future -
learning environments which could be more relevant to a changing world, more effective in meeting
community expectations and which manage educational resources more efficiently. One of the key
challenges was to create learning environments which engaged the sensibilities of learners who are
increasingly immersed in digital and global lifestyles - from the entertainment sources they choose to
the way they work and learn. It was also about enabling teachers to explicitly track and be aware of the
relationship between their pedagogical choices and their students' learning outcomes.
Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting "fish," planting fire-hydrant gardens and more.
Posted on 03/05/2011 10:17 am by Simon Davidson
Project overview
The current project of the inquirers.org team is a research project on the traits of successful people, and how they relate to their educational experience and learning from life outside schools and colleges.
The research question is
What are the traits of successful people?
- What are the underlying common traits that lead to success?
- Are they different in different fields/cultures
- How do they link to curriculum outcomes and other effects of education?
This will be developed into a book and proposals for educational reform. The main authors are Simon Davidson and Lindsey Ferrie.
among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational
among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas
And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard
STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational