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Keri-Lee Beasley

Connie Yowell on Digital Media and Learning, Then and Now | Spotlight on Digital Media ... - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 30 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • The Holy Grail in learning and education is context. The problem is that education is focused on generic outcomes. And as soon as you shift to that conversation, you forget about context of the learner. You forget that learning is social, and about identity, and fundamentally connected to what the learner cares about.
  • I saw a video of you talking recently. You said starting with outcomes and working backward was a big mistake. You said we should start thinking about the student and then design forward. What does that actually mean, and is that related to what you’re saying about context? In education, we traditionally think about content. We think about content as the outcomes we’re striving for. Does a kid know X? That’s what all our tests measure, and that’s how we lose the kid.  We lose the kid to our focus on content—we talk more about STEM than we do about kids. 
  • People talk about kids learning content and then testing them on that content. People like Katie and Will are thinking about designing the context for participation. That’s the Holy Grail.  Its through participation that learning happens. 
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 30 Jan 15
     
    Interesting interview regarding the potential future of Digital Media Literacy
Louise Phinney

- Making Thinking Visible - 2 views

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thinking technology

shared by Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 14 Mar 13
     
    I've compiled these "routines" into the booklet below for myself as a quick reference. The routines are simple and quick. Have a look if interested. You can download through Issuu here, or via Google Docs here.
Jeffrey Plaman

David Kelley talks about Steve Jobs and 'design thinking' in '60 Minutes' interview - 0 views

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design_thinking design video interview

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 08 Jan 13
     
    IDEO founder David Kelley sat down with 60 Minutes this week to discuss the philosophy behind "design thinking" - an innovative approach that melds product design with human behavior.
Katie Day

Design Thinking for Educators - Toolkit PDF to download - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 08 Jan 13
     
    "This toolkit contains the process and methods of design along with the Designer's Workbook, adapted specifically for the context of K-12 education. It offers new ways to be intentional and collaborative when designing, and empowers educators to create impactful solutions. At IDEO, we've been using similar processes, methods, and tools for years in tackling some dauntingly complex challenges. More often than not, we've experienced how Design Thinking helps to get to the next step. "
Jeffrey Plaman

PE Central: The Web Site for Health and Physical Education Teachers - 0 views

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p.e. research list professional_development

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
    • Jeffrey Plaman
      Jeffrey Plaman on 05 Feb 13
       
      This looks like a great site for research specific to PE
  • post research articles that we think will be helpful to PE teachers.
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 05 Feb 13
     
    Welcome to the Research In Action section of PE Central. In this section, we post research articles that we think will be helpful to PE teachers. 
Jeffrey Plaman

Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking | Brain Pickings - 2 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 10 Feb 12
     
    This is a really cool set of vintage looking animations on critical thinking... great for TOK
Keri-Lee Beasley

Movenote - 1 views

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movenote thinking google_drive google_sites embed technology

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 26 Nov 13
     
    Wow! Movenote lets you add video comments to anything in Google Drive. You can then embed the video together with the item in a Google site (or elsewhere) Great for making thinking visible.
Jeffrey Plaman

Making Thinking Happen | Making Thinking Happen is the official blog space of the Agenc... - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 29 Nov 13
     
    Blog for Agency by Design group at Harvard's project zero.
Jeffrey Plaman

Design Thinking - QuickStartGuide.pdf - 1 views

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DesignThinking guide pd protocol

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 05 Oct 14
     
    Guide for using design thinking to generate innovative solutions for classrooms, schools, communities.
Keri-Lee Beasley

20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15
     
    Great classroom design ideas.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Writing in the 21st Century | Spotlight on Digital Media and Lea... - 2 views

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  • Absolutely. When we think about writing at the National Writing Project, we think about multimodal composition: words, audio, video, graphic texts, etc. That said, no one is abandoning words. We’re just acknowledging that today your ability to create and publish, say, a video affords opportunities for expression that go beyond just words.
  • Yes, absolutely. Whether in email, texts, or posting status updates, most people in the world are probably writing and publishing more words, images, video and audio now than ever before. Facebook is one of the biggest publishing platforms in the world. It’s word dependent, but it also includes audio and video—and creating audio and video are deeply compositional. The question is how can we take advantage of the fact that so many people are now creating and circulating content to improve teaching and learning.
  • Going public and writing for an audience is something we always cared about. Maybe the real shift is that now it’s easier and more expansive.
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  • There’s a very narrow band of writing that is assessed in schools, and a lot is at stake on that narrow field. So the question is how do we balance helping young people do well in assessment contexts with the other stuff that might actually take them fuarther in the world?
  • You mentioned earlier about teachers needing to have digital lives—why is that important to connected learning? We don’t want to just say to educators, “You do these fives steps and you’ll have active, enquiring learners.” That’s forgetting that the teacher is also a learner. We think if we have active, enquiring, connected, engaged adults, they’ll transfer that culture or learning and inquiry to young people.
  • How do we link what we’re learning about the creative opportunities in new digital environments to how people engage and learn in their communities and in society at large?
Sean McHugh

The Scientific Case For Teaching Cursive Handwriting to Your Kids Is Weaker Than You Think - 2 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • here is ample evidence that writing by hand aids cognition in ways that typing does not: It’s well worth teaching. And I confess I’m old-fashioned enough to think that, regardless of proven cognitive benefits, a good handwriting style is an important and valuable skill, not only when your laptop batteries run out but as an expression of personality and character.
  • if they have the time and inclination.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      But should we be dedicating swathes of curriculum time towards this? Surely not.
  • what teachers “know” about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they’re immersed than a result of research and data.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Never were truer words written.
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  • What does research say on these issues? It has consistently failed to find any real advantage of cursive over other forms of handwriting
  • our real understanding of how children respond to different writing styles is surprisingly patchy and woefully inadequate
  • Evidence supports teaching both formats of handwriting and then letting each student choose which works best for him or her
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Shouldn't we include touch typing here as well?
  • So was cursive faster than manuscript? No, it was slower. But fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by pupils around the fourth to fifth grade
  • They had apparently imbibed manuscript style from their reading experience (it more closely resembles print), even without being taught it explicitly
  • While pupils writing in cursive were slower on average, their handwriting was also typically more legible than that of pupils taught only manuscript. But the mixed style allowed for greater speed with barely any deficit in legibility.
  • The grip that cursive has on teaching is sustained by folklore and prejudice
  • for typical children, there’s some reason to think manuscript has advantages
  • freeing up cognitive resources that are otherwise devoted to the challenge of simply making the more elaborate cursive forms on paper will leave children more articulate and accurate in what they write
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Likewise if they can touch-type instead of wrestling with ascenders and descenders...
  • the difference in appearance between cursive and manuscript could inhibit the acquisition of reading skills, making it harder for children to transfer skills between learning to read and learning to write because they simply don’t see cursive in books.
  • There’s good evidence, both behavioral and neurological, that a “haptic” (touch-related) sense of letter shapes can aid early reading skills, indicating a cognitive interaction between motor production and visual recognition of letters. That’s one reason, incidentally, why it’s valuable to train children to write by hand at all, not just to use a keyboard.
  • even if being taught both styles might have some advantages, it’s not clear that those cognitive resources and classroom hours couldn’t be better deployed in other ways.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      In other ways... the time it takes for kids to learn cursive, spread over years, compared to the relatively short time it takes to master touch-typing being a case in point.
  • that cursive is still taught primarily because of parental demand and tradition, rather than because there is any scientific basis for its superiority in learning
  • inertia and preconceptions seem to distort perception and policy at the expense of the scientific evidence
  • How much else in education is determined by what’s “right,” rather than what’s supported by evidence?
  • Beliefs about cursive are something of a hydra: You cut off one head, and another sprouts. These beliefs propagate through both the popular and the scientific literature, in a strange mixture of uncritical reporting and outright invention, which depends on myths often impossible to track to a reliable source.
  • the reasons to reject cursive handwriting as a formal part of the curriculum far outweigh the reasons to keep it.
  • This must surely lead us to wonder how much else in education is determined by a belief in what is “right,” unsupported by evidence.
  • it’s often the case that the very lack of hard, objective evidence about an issue, especially in the social sciences, encourages a reliance on dogma instead
  • There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
  • Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
     
    There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
Katie Day

Say Goodbye to Creativity Awards - Werner Reinartz and Peter Saffert - Harvard Business... - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 28 Feb 13
     
    measuring creativity.... "A metric that we have applied is originally based on the famous Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). We compared 437 ad campaigns from 90 leading brands in 10 different FMCG categories in Germany. Using an advertising creativity scale developed from communications researchers at Indiana University in 2007 we evaluated and indexed each campaign's creativity levels. Specifically, we measured five dimensions of advertising creativity: (1) originality (was the ad original, rare, surprising, unique?); (2) flexibility (does the ad link the product to different ideas, concepts, or subjects?); (3) elaboration (does the ad contain intricate or numerous details?); (4) synthesis (does the ad blend normally unrelated objects or ideas?); and (5) artistic value (does the ad excel visually, verbally, or graphically?). "
Katie Day

The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt - NYTimes.com - Philip Lopate - 1 views

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  • Katie Day on 28 Feb 13
     
    "The essay's job is to track consciousness; if you are fully aware of your mind you will find your thoughts doubling back, registering little peeps of ambivalence or disbelief. According to Theodor Adorno, the iron law of the essay is heresy. What is heresy if not the expression of contrarian doubt about communal pieties or orthodox positions? This is sometimes called "critical thinking," an ostensible goal of education in a democracy. "
Louise Phinney

TeachThought | 6 Basic Benefits Of Game-Based Learning - 0 views

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learning games

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  • Louise Phinney on 20 Mar 13
     
    increases a child's memory capacity, computer and simulation fluency, helps with fast strategic thinking, hand eye coordination, benefits children with attention disorders, helps particular skill development 
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