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20 percent projects: 7 ideas to think about | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views

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percent projects ideas innovations think students

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  • thebda on 24 Jun 13
     
    Google's 20 percent project idea has started to take education by storm. The gist of it, as outlined in this New York Times article: Google allows its employees to use 20 percent of their "on the clock time" to pursue projects that interest and inspire them.
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A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working - Techno... - 0 views

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teaching Pedagogy wesch learning elearning technology

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  • "They would just be inspired to use blogs and Twitter and technology, but the No. 1 thing that was missing from it was a sense of purp
  • ose."
  • It doesn't matter what method you use if you do not first focus on one intangible factor: the bond between professor and student.
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  • He's a lecturer. He's not breaking them up into small groups or having them make videos. That's my thing, right? But he's totally in tune with where they are and the struggle it takes to understand physics concepts. He is right there by their side, walking them through the forest of physics."
  • "Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
  • "None of this work is off-the-shelf," she said, noting that the group promotes a "scholarly approach" to teaching. "That means you aren't just picking something and plopping it in there, but you're really thinking through what its value is and what you would have to do to change it."
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An Introduction To Design Thinking - - 1 views

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design thinking dtkthrough12 teachthought resources

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  • thebda on 15 Feb 16
     
    "innovation has a structure and a rhythm"
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The New Digital Citizens - 0 views

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1:1 technology integration citizens

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  • Five Card Flickr.” Each drive contains a folder with five photographs downloaded from the photo-sharing website’s royalty-free photo bank. The students pop in the thumb drives and open the folders, and the images blossom on their screens: a pair of dice, a pale and lanky teenage boy, a flower, a parrot, drums, a toddler wearing huge glasses, a tropical island. In pairs, the students get to work, arranging the images in various sequences to tell a story in the form of a play. 
  • “I just want them to think of themselves as creators,” Vail says. “And I didn’t want them writing just another paper. I want them to use technology to actualize their ideas. To dramatize their creativity.” 
  • images to use as the cover page of their adaptations—like a playbill for a Broadway show
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  • sometimes you have to catch your bees with honey.” 
  • the most successful teachers are like Emily Vail: the ones who don’t revolutionize their pedagogical methods overnight, but take a “slow and steady approach.”
  • learning is often more about process and problem solving than accessing or memorizing static information.
  • “when there’s stress, you just do what works instead of trying something new and different.
  • The fallacy,” Hogan explains, “is that technology makes teaching easier. But it actually allows you to do things you couldn’t do before, which is much, much harder.”
  • n order for the program to be successful, Hogan says, the student needs to have a sense of ownership and accountability.
  • provide lessons of what she calls “digital citizenship,” teaching kids not to text in public, or answer their phones in the middle of conversations. “That’s on the parent,” Gordon says. 
  • thebda on 26 Apr 13
     
    ME Magazine article - thanks Linda
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10 Ways to Teach Innovation | MindShift - 1 views

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  • education should focus on fostering innovation by putting curiosity, critical thinking, deep understanding, the rules and tools of inquiry, and creative brainstorming at the center of the curriculum.
  • there are a number of ways that teachers can bypass the system and offer students the tools and experiences that spur an innovative mindset.
  • Make skills as important as knowledge
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  • Be innovative yourself
  • thebda on 02 Apr 13
     
    To follow up on TLCs 4/1 conversation
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