tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31411847249088931582024-03-19T01:02:16.549-04:00A Teaching LifeSharing thoughts about how to tackle challenges facing schools in the 21st Century.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-15422233981293055402016-12-21T14:05:00.000-05:002016-12-21T14:05:49.499-05:00Worth Reading...Sharing a few intriguing postings I came across.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Automation displacing a significant portion of global employment does not mean we will soon prostrating ourselves to robot overlords. Instead, as advanced algorithms become ingrained into the fabric of every industry, there will be an increasing demand for skills that augment machine intelligence. Higher level “</span><a href="http://www.iftf.org/uploads/media/SR-1382A_UPRI_future_work_skills_sm.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sense-making</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” skills represent those analytical components of the decision making process that are difficult to distill into an automated algorithm (for now). As technology increasingly takes over menial tasks, those learning to deftly apply soft skills will be better able to perform</span><a href="https://hbr.org/2015/06/beyond-automation" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sophisticated tasks</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that leverage the strengths of human cognition.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.</span><a href="https://medium.com/synapse/learning-to-disrupt-six-courses-that-must-be-required-for-every-pre-service-teacher-1b69d1fdb93c#.ivjunqoff" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Learning to Disrupt: Six Courses that Must be Required for Every Pre-Service Teacher</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Socol)- looking at any sort of teacher preparation program and rethinking course that are offered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What if you didn’t have due dates? Or expected homework? Or switched activities based on a clock? Time, as “they” say,</span><a href="http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2012/01/changing-gears-2012-undoing-academic.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the first technology</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of school and the most destructive of learning. And so this course will explore learning with adults only rarely telling kids to stop. With adults never saying, “a mediocre project now beats what you really wanted to do.” With adults never saying, “I’m sorry that you’re in a great conversation about engineering but now it’s Drop Everything And Read.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding your way to a relatively ‘time limit free’ learning space isn’t easy. It goes against everything we know about school — which is why the switch is so important. You know that teacher that says, “You’re late!”? Never be that teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4.</span><a href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=66147" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond Institutions Personal Learning in a Networked World</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Downes)- makes a clear distinction between personal learning and personalized learning and discusses new models and designs for learning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal learning is made to order. Personal learning can be learning you make yourself. Personal learning is where you build your learning, not from a kit, but from scratch. There’s a difference. People don't want customized, necessarily. Sometimes, they do, but typically they don't. They want something personal. They want something custom.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning your own way means finding the methods that work best for you and creating conditions that support sustained motivation. Perseverance, pleasure, and the ability to retain what you learn are among the wonderful byproducts of getting to learn using methods that suit you best and in contexts that keep you </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">going</span> </i></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-46189866637440354232016-11-28T17:12:00.000-05:002016-11-28T17:12:35.459-05:00Worth ReadingSharing a few highlights from the past week.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676b6d; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><a href="https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/11/21/what-neuroscience-can-tell-us-about-making-fractions-stick/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Making Fractions Stick</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #676b6d; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Schwartz)- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To improve a student’s information processing around fractions neuroscience tells us teachers should both present information and give students ways to interact with it, in a variety of ways</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-64309440309610680322016-11-04T10:10:00.004-04:002016-11-04T10:10:34.620-04:00Worth Reading.....<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">1.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-the-problem-with-learning-is-unlearning">Why the Problem with Learning is Unlearning</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Bonchek)- the biggest challenge is not learning something new, but unlearning what old ways of thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>What I hope it means – Moving from something “known”, to an “unknown” in pursuit of doing something better for and with students.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are now seeing a new divide emerge — a Creative Chasm between those who passively consume and those who actively create.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In our experience, when students are thinking creatively, they are fully engaged in their learning. This increased student engagement often leads to more buy-in from students and ultimately deeper learning.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is no guarantee that creative thinking will increase test scores, but who would you rather have take a test: a disengaged trained test-taker or a fully engaged creative thinker?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Design thinking provides a way to think about creative work. It starts with empathy, working to really understand the problems people are facing before attempting to create solutions.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Launching our work into the real world and in front of an actual audience is what makes creative work so scary, but also so rewarding.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every time your students get the chance to be authors, filmmakers, scientists, artists, and engineers, you are planting the seeds for a future you could have never imagined on your own.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how often they put their early thoughts and inklings out into the world, in sketches, dashed-off phrases and observations, bits of dialogue, and quick prototypes. Instead of arriving in one giant leap, great creations emerged by zigs and zags as their creators engaged over and over again with these externalized images.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the Hacker is a little more subversive, actively working to tear down a broken system in order to create something better. In this sense, the Hacker is inherently destructive.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hackers don’t always destroy systems. Often, they find new ways to use a system, idea, or resource. Think less “computer hacker” and more “life hacks.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone possesses important skills and talents, but it’s only when we honor and tap into those skills and talents that we, together, can do exceptional creative work.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Children are naturally fascinated by the wonder of their world. Hang out with a four-year-old and take a tally of all the questions they ask. Unfortunately, schools are more often designed to help students answer questions rather than question answers. Students rarely have the chance to ask whatever question they have and go off on a rabbit trail to find the answers.</span></i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-65344722184100232612016-10-10T17:01:00.003-04:002016-10-10T17:01:41.920-04:00A Few Highlights<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from <a href="https://kindle.amazon.com/work/checklist-manifesto-how-things-right-ebook/B002ELKRYW/B0030V0PEW" target="_blank">The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right</a> by Atul Gawande.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff, or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized. They provide a kind of cognitive net. They catch mental flaws inherent in all of us—flaws of memory and attention and thoroughness. And because they do, they raise wide, unexpected possibilities</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>And this brings up another feature of complex problems: their outcomes remain highly uncertain. Yet we all know that it is possible to raise a child well. It’s complex, that’s all</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay—the builders trusted in the power of communication. They didn’t believe in the wisdom of the single individual, of even an experienced engineer. They believed in the wisdom of the group</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>People need room to act and adapt. Yet they cannot succeed as isolated individuals, either—that is anarchy. Instead, they require a seemingly contradictory mix of freedom and expectation</i></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-82055042098999006632016-07-13T22:11:00.001-04:002016-07-13T22:11:40.032-04:00An Incomplete manifesto for Growth<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was just moved to reread Bruce Mau's <a href="http://www.manifestoproject.it/bruce-mau/" target="_blank">An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth</a>. There are so many impressionable statements, but right now, the following thought is grabbing my attention and in particular, the second sentence about growth.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 28px;">Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). <b>Joy is the engine of growth</b>. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-89674725085048764622016-07-05T09:33:00.001-04:002016-07-05T09:33:14.861-04:00Worth Reading...<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few posts worth checking out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. <a href="http://www.manifesto15.org/en/" target="_blank">Manifesto 15</a>- thoughts about how education should evolve in the near future</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;">“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;"> (William Gibson in Gladstone, 1999). The field of education lags considerably behind most other industries largely from our tendency to look backward, but not forward. We teach the history of literature, for example, but not the future of writing. We teach historically important mathematical concepts, but do not engage in creating new maths needed to build the future. Moreover, everything “revolutionary” taking place in learning has already happened at different scales, in bits and pieces, at different places. The full impacts for ourselves and our organizations will be realized when we develop the courage to learn from each others’ experiences, and accept the risk and responsibility in applying a futures orientation in our praxis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;">I agree with Ken Robinson. The core of our job as educators is to prepare them for "Life after school."</b><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><b style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;">It's really that simple.</b><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;"> They don't need to be narrowly pigeonholed into existing jobs or jobs that "might" exist. They need the "mental, emotional, social and strategic resources" to live in a world that none of us really know about. Instead of rolling the dice with the lives of those we teach, we need to provide an education that allows them to face the unknown.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By making the familiar strange and the strange familiar, design fictions can ask questions about our everyday lives that other modes of designing cannot. While this may not be appealing to the pragmatists out there, it is a highly creative way of opening up some of our most challenging problems for discussion. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. <a href="http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2016/05/08/the-professional-ecosystem-the-future-of-work-and-learning/" target="_blank">The Future of Work and Learning: The Professional Ecosystem</a> (Hart)- View on how professionals learn through a set of organizational and personal, interconnecting and interacting elements</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 22.1px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There’s no longer such thing as a job for life; people are constantly moving around, and we are now seeing the early-stages of the so-called Freelance or Gig Economy. Individuals need to be ready to drop in and out of jobs with up-to-date skills and knowledge, as required. In order to do that they need to take responsibility for their own career development; they can’t rely on their company to support their career aspirations – so they need to be constantly learning in many different ways, not just for their current jobs but for their future jobs. This means they need a strong set of personal elements so they can learn continuously learn from e.g. exposure to people and from a flow of new ideas and resources. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What I mean by passion is not just that you have something you care about. What I mean is that you care about that same ultimate goal in an abiding, loyal, steady way. You are not capricious. Each day, you wake up thinking of the questions you fell asleep thinking about. You are, in a sense, pointing in the same direction, ever eager to take even the smallest step forward than to take a step to the side, toward some other destination.</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>My own experience, and the stories of grit paragons like Jeff Gettleman and Bob Mankoff suggest that, indeed, grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity.</i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Hope does not define the last stage of grit. It defines every stage. From the very beginning to the very end, it is inestimably important to learn to keep going even when things are difficult, even when we have doubts. At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.096px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can’t really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won’t. You can’t simply will yourself to like things, either. As Jeff Bezos has observed, “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves.” Without experimenting, you can’t figure out which interests will stick, and which won.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-78124078185142895192016-05-07T14:45:00.001-04:002016-05-07T14:45:27.073-04:00Worth Reading Part II...<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I forgot to include two videos in the previous Worth Reading post. Take a few minutes to check out both videos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Losing Ourselves (Wolfe)- A student-directed documentary about how an expectation for perfection undermines the love of learning and creative endeavors. A piece potentially worth sharing with high school students and faculty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Ski Lodge on Wheels- Leveraging tiny living to support a passion. Outside of my love for skiing, this video is a subtle reminder of how important it is to be afforded opportunities to pursue a passion. Watch the video and specifically, reflect on the process. Consider the amount of thought and authentic problem-solving involved in supporting the passion of these quasi-nomad skiers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/haushofer/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf" target="_blank">Johannes Haushofer CV</a>- professor at Princeton University publishes a CV of his failures in an attempt to balance the record and provide some perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I have noticed that this sometimes gives others the impression that most things work out for me. As a result, they are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves, rather than the fact that the world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots, and selection committees and referees have bad days.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. <a href="http://modernlearners.com/is-your-school-literate/" target="_blank">Is Your School Literate? </a>(Richardson)- the author revisits a question presented six years ago and wonders whether schools are addressing the evolving notion of what it means to be literate in the 21st century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>While I think the “Are our kids literate?” question is certainly an important one, an even more significant one may be “Are our <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">schools</span></span> literate?” Is modern literacy something that is a part of our DNA, or is it something we try to “teach” as a separate entity using some off the web curriculum to pace us through it? I think you know that the answer, by and large, is that we’re not practicing literacy in schools in ways that either model or teach our students the skills they need to become truly literate in today’s world. Obviously, we’re not talking about a three week unit in the second half of seventh grade. And we’re also not helping our kids in this regard when we bring digital tools into classrooms and then employ them for traditional purposes. (The “digital worksheets” thing again.)</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A growing number of colleges have begun to embrace a novel solution: change the outcomes of college by changing the inputs. What if college freshmen arrived on campus not burnt out from having been <a href="http://www.billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep">“excellent sheep”</a> in high school, but instead refreshed, focused and prepared to take full advantage of the rich resources and opportunities colleges have to offer?</span></i></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-8369834578419874542016-05-02T10:01:00.001-04:002016-05-02T10:03:24.689-04:00Unseen City: Wonders of the Urban WildlifeI regularly listen to several podcasts. One of my favorite podcasts is <a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/" target="_blank">99% Invisible</a>. The most recent episode, <a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unseen-city-wonders-urban-wilderness/" target="_blank"><i>Unseen City: Wonders of the Urban Wildlife</i></a>, broadcasts an interview with author and amateur naturalist Nathaneal Johnson. In the book, <i><a href="http://www.nathanaeljohnson.org/unseen-city/" target="_blank">Unseen City</a></i>, Nathaneal Johnson shares stories of plants and animals which thrive in urban landscapes. In the podcast, Johnson explains how he became intrigued by animals and plant life that many of us simply overlook on a daily basis. However, as the podcast and book highlights, urban creatures reveal fascinating stories of fortitude and survival.<br />
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What resonated during the podcast was a subtle message to take the time to observe the natural world. We often take for granted the natural world and rarely stop and think about how aspects of the natural world evolved. To an extent, this is true in education. Students rarely slow down to observe the natural world or for that matter, the subtle developments within a given day. As a result, meaningful opportunities to reflect and to dig deeper are lost. The same is true for educators. How often do teachers and administrators just simply observe students not necessarily to assess, but instead, to uncover hidden facts about how kids learn, interact with peers and manage the realities of being a student? Educators can take a cue from Johnson and carve out time to observe and to think deeply about what is noticed. It is important to uncover the hidden/unseen stories and not take for granted certain developments within a school building or classroom.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-55054073935116980722016-02-22T09:21:00.002-05:002016-02-22T09:21:23.052-05:00Worth Reading...<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sharing a few posts from the past couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. <a href="http://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-mcc/files/20160120_mcc_ttt_report_interactive.pdf?m=1453303517" target="_blank">Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions</a>- Report making the case that the college admission process can promote that ethical and intellectual engagement are both highly important</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How might we construct an admissions process that sends
compelling messages that both academic achievement
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that motivates young people to contribute to others and
their communities in ways that are more authentic and
meaningful and that promote in them greater appreciation
of and commitment to others, especially those different
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; widows: 1;">Imagine asking students to watch the Snapchat story featuring the city of the day and respond to the </span><a href="http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/UsedToThink/UsedToThink_Routine.htm" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none; widows: 1;" target="_blank">visible thinking routine, "I used to think.... But now I think..."</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; widows: 1;"> Consider the discussions that could take place as we come to a self-realization about the depth of people around the world and what it means to be a global citizen. That moment of self-assessment, where you realize what you used to think and what you now have learned, truly leaves you feeling more cautious about the biases you develop towards people and places with which you are not familiar.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.152px; widows: 1;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Code enables us to experiment. To imagine solutions or creations, and then see if we can in fact make them. Code enables us to solve problems that would otherwise be beyond our capacity because they would take far too long, or be difficult not to introduce mistakes. The computer language provides precision and consistency to a level beyond what we can usually do by hand.</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-25801646301383729102016-02-16T11:26:00.000-05:002016-02-16T11:26:16.053-05:00A Few Highlights<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/OPEN-well-work-learn-future-ebook/dp/B00FLYFS98" target="_blank">OPEN: How we'll work, live and learn in the future </a>by David Price. A worthwhile read as Price discusses how going 'open' has the potential to change the professional world and education. Even though examples of successful businesses and schools are presented, a key point is that certain changes are beneficial regardless of the type of organization. The latter point is important to serve as a reminder that schools need to reflect larger societal changes and that the work students do needs to resemble the manner in which the global community interacts, creates and makes meaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The opening of learning is transforming every aspect of our lives. It offers the promise of a more equal distribution of wealth, opportunity and power. It can close the gap between rich and poor, sick and healthy, strong and weak, and it accelerates the speed at which we solve intractable problems.</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Open’ is shifting the focus of attention from how we should teach, to the best ways to learn. It’s no longer about traditional vs progressive, didactic vs experiential. Instead, it’s about what we can do for ourselves, how we can tap into the knowledge and expertise that is within all of us, but rarely mined. In short, it’s about the rise of informal learning</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Great learning environments aren’t afraid of passion, because of its key role in motivation. Being passionate in formal learning situations is so unexpected that it’s frequently confused with eccentricity</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vimeo, YouTube and Twitter are filled with examples of extraordinary student work, where the public assessment means far more to these young people than whether they got a B+ from their teacher</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘when people are intrinsically motivated, they engage in the work for the challenge and enjoyment of it… Managers in successful, creative organisations rarely (need to) offer specific extrinsic rewards for particular outcomes… The work itself is motivating… the most common extrinsic motivator managers use is money, which doesn’t necessarily stop people from being creative. But, in many cases, it doesn’t help either</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of the powerful learning experiences happened outside school or college (e.g. learning to swim, ride a bike, process life-changing events). They involve some kind of mentoring, backed up by some form of study group. They arise from some form of project – putting on a play, realising an ambition – that blends thinking and doing. They involve challenge, risk, and learning from failure. They force us to put ourselves outside our comfort zone, working through our doubts and fears, often by trial-and-error. There’s invariably that light-bulb moment, followed by a gain in confidence and pride. People frequently recall some form of public presentation helping to cement the experience in our memories</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-68577853950312214812016-01-18T20:10:00.001-05:002016-01-18T20:10:23.193-05:00Remembering Dr. KingA poignant way to remember Dr. King is expressed by Michael Eric Dyson in <i>I May Not Get There With You</i>. Among other comments in the concluding chapter, Dyson talks about the King holiday and offers his opinion on how the day should be celebrated. I tend to agree with his position.<br />
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<i> When we celebrate the King holiday, we do not simply celebrate the life of Martin Luther King. We celebrate individuals like Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses and Charles Sherrod, Septima Clark and Harry Moore, Emmett Till and Medgar Evans, Victoria Gray and Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young, Angela Davis and Huey Newton, Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney, Andy Goodman and Bayard Rustin, Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, Denise McNair and Cynthia Wesley, Julian Bond and John Lewis, Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams and Jesse Jackson, Diane Nash and James Bevel, Dorothy Cotton and Johnnie Tillmon, and legions of other souls who sought to bring justice and freedom to Southern black doors and Northern project apartments. We celebrate King's insistence that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," as we extend his radical legacy to embrace citizens who are oppressed...</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-2032708285131769032016-01-08T09:01:00.000-05:002016-01-08T09:02:13.745-05:00Worth Reading...<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from this week's collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26.25px; orphans: 4; widows: 1;">all it takes is a dreamer. Can you imagine the Wright Brothers if one was a lawyer and one was an accountant? </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 26.25px; margin: 0px; orphans: 4; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 1;">Why are you going to build this stupid airplane? It only carries one person. Who’s going to buy it? What kind of a profit margin are we going to get? We’ve got forty percent on bicycles. What are we doing this for? Think about the liability! Everybody can sue us! It’s a bad idea. Yeah, let’s not do it.</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26.25px; orphans: 4; widows: 1;"> As long as we have that opinion, we’re stuck. What you have to say is, “Gosh it’s something no one has ever done before. Let’s try it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26.25px; orphans: 4; widows: 1;">5. <a href="http://www.agencybydesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Maker-Centered-Learning-and-the-Development-of-Self_AbD_Jan-2015.pdf" target="_blank">Maker-Centered Learning and the Development of Self</a> (Agency by Design)- a white paper presented by the Agency by Design. Identifies beliefs of maker-centered learning for young people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center; widows: 1;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Born from experience, frustration, curiosity, and a sense of educational righteousness, the Mosaic Collective exists to promote the bliss of intrinsic learning and a strong focus on community by intentionally practicing and reflecting on what is good for learners – of all ages and backgrounds.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-23841769974445750792015-12-22T09:52:00.000-05:002015-12-22T09:52:09.101-05:00Worth ViewingSharing a few videos worth viewing. To some extent, each video asks the "what it" or "what could be question"about schools and education and forces the viewer to consider whether the current paradigm is successful.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/142506730" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="https://vimeo.com/142506730">Building children's writing skills through learning through play</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user14808366">LEGO Foundation</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-81080749731127732312015-12-14T08:25:00.001-05:002015-12-14T08:25:22.494-05:00Future Wise<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Future-Wise-Educating-Children-Changing/dp/1118844084" target="_blank">Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World</a> by David Perkins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;">Likely to matter in the lives learners are likely to live: that’s a very useful phrase, but it’s also a bit of a mouthful. So let’s attach a single word to it: </span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;">lifeworthy</span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;">, that is, likely to matter in the </span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;">lives</span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"> learners </span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;">are</span><span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"> likely to live</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The hard fact is that our minds hold on only to knowledge we have occasion to use in some corner of our lives—personal, artistic, civic, something else. Overwhelmingly knowledge unused is forgotten. It’s gone. Whatever its intrinsic value might be, it can’t be </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">lifeworthy</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> unless it’s there</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Opportunity cost makes a fundamental point about decision making: when we decide in favor of one course of action, we forgo others that might have generated certain benefits. A cost of the path we choose is loss of benefits from the abandoned </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">paths</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">. With quadratic equations as with anything else, we have to ask not just whether they are nice to understand in </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">themselves but</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> what might have been learned instead</span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, biological research into the fundamental dynamics of life holds strong prospects of extending the human life span considerably in the course of the next fifty years. What sense would a K–12 or K–16 education make in a world where people live to be, say, 150 years old? Today we speak casually of lifelong learning, but in a few decades, it will likely be so much the norm as hardly to require its own label. Cycles of formal learning as well as enriched processes of on-the-job learning seem destined to become routine</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">To generalize, </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">multiyear</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> curricula tend to be constructed as journeys toward expertise, with little effort to ask what topics within the discipline speak most powerfully and directly to the </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">lives</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> learners are likely to live</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The bottom line is hardly subtle: the traditional hierarchical structure of education is a rather clumsy vehicle for engaging the rich information and communication </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">affordances</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">of</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> the contemporary world and preparing today’s learners to thrive in that world. In contrast, a flexible network structure embraces the opportunities in a much more expansive and generative manner</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">We need to ask, for everything from democracy to quadratic equations and for many </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">themes</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> not typically taught at all, “Is this knowledge likely to go somewhere in learners’ lives?” We need to ask, when this topic comes up, “Does it offer insight, does it inform action, and does it inspire ethics?” And as to opportunity, “Is this topic likely to come up often and importantly rather than rarely and trivially</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Understanding something means being able to think with what you know about it, not just to know </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">standard answers</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> or do routine procedures accurately and fluently</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-35069851475071129332015-11-13T16:18:00.003-05:002015-11-13T16:18:25.242-05:00Second Machine Age Highlights<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from T<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Machine-Age-Technologies/dp/0393239357" target="_blank">he Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies</a> by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 22px;">We’re heading into an era that won’t just be different; it will be better, because we’ll be able to increase both the variety and the volume of our consumption. When we phrase it that way—in the dry vocabulary of economics—it almost sounds unappealing. Who wants to consume more and more all the time? But we don’t just consume calories and gasoline. We also consume information from books and friends, entertainment from superstars and amateurs, expertise </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">from</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> teachers and doctors, and countless other things that are not made of atoms</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #383838; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 22px;">As Moore’s Law works </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">over time</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> on processors, memory, sensors, and many other elements of computer hardware (a notable exception is </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">batteries</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">, which haven’t improved their performance at an exponential rate because they’re essentially chemical devices, not digital ones), it does more than just make computing devices faster, cheaper, smaller, and lighter. It also allows them to do things that previously seemed out of reach</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #383838; line-height: 22px; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Advances in technology, especially digital technologies, are driving an unprecedented reallocation of wealth and income. Digital technologies can replicate valuable ideas, insights, and innovations at very low cost. This creates bounty for society and wealth for innovators, but diminishes the demand for previously important types of labor, which can leave many people with reduced incomes</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-204695622040622752015-11-11T15:43:00.001-05:002015-11-11T15:43:30.194-05:00What's Your FocusJust love the following explanation form the <a href="http://sparktruck.org/resources" target="_blank">Spark Truck</a>:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-14656971722980317252015-11-04T08:55:00.000-05:002015-11-04T08:55:53.257-05:00Most Likely to Succeed<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from <a href="http://www.tonywagner.com/1933" target="_blank">Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids For the Innovation Era </a>by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start; widows: 1;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">t’s quite striking that, almost without exception, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">the great</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> contributors to civilization were educated as apprentices, not as note-takers</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"><i>In short, the United States picked the wrong goal and failed at it. We opted to chase South Korea and Singapore on standardized test performance (a race we never had a chance of winning against children who spend every waking hour cramming for the tests) instead of educating our youth for a world of innovation and opportunity (a race that plays to our strengths)</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">Albert Einstein, who had his share of struggles with school, said, “The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution.” As administrators, faculty, boards, and parents debate strategic goals,In short, the United States picked the wrong goal and failed at it. We opted to chase South Korea and Singapore on standardized test performance (a race we never had a chance of winning against children who spend every waking hour cramming for the tests) instead of educating our youth for a world of innovation and opportunity (a race that plays to our strengths) they generally dive into issues around the importance of the goals listed in Question 1 above and the precise wording of their mission statement. In so doing, they skip over a more fundamental step in the process: Is our teaching </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">approach one</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> that actually helps our students to learn</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">Even better, imagine if the school looked for skills where a student could achieve excellence, and then set out on a path to create definitive life advantages for that student </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">applicable</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> across a broad range of careers</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"><i>two of the most important skills in the innovation economy are in thinking critically (about problems, situations, markets, ideas) and then the ability to communicate (an idea, a recommendation, a plan forward) in a way that is not only thoughtful and compelling but also in a way that influences others to take action</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">Annmarie Neal is the former chief talent officer at Cisco Systems and author of Leading From the Edge. She continues to consult </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">senior leadership in Fortune 100 companies all over the world, and here’s what she told us in a recent conversation: Even the most elite schools do not prepare students for the reality of work as it is today, let alone what it will become in the future. Most large organizations are undergoing massive transformations as they move from industrial to innovation-economy business models. The students that</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">thrive</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">within today’s education systems are achievement driven, rule-oriented, compliant, linear, singular in focus (i.e., a business or engineering major). The world of work today requires future leaders to be relationship or collaboration driven, rule-defining, creative and innovative, lateral and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">polymathic</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> in focus</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">We need to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;">reimagine</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start; widows: 1;"> education. We have to put ourselves in the shoes of the Committee of Ten who, back in 1893, said, “Gee, we need to train millions of kids for a growing number of rote jobs in our burgeoning industrial economy.” The Committee of Ten came up with a good solution for their era. Today, we need to educate millions of kids (and adults) for the innovation era. How do we do that?</span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-1134963702975563432015-10-30T08:50:00.003-04:002015-10-30T08:50:55.178-04:00Worth Reading<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharing a few highlights from the cue...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-wolf-predicts-what-will-happen-in-the-tech-industry-in-2016-2015-10?op=0#/#-12" target="_blank">Future of Tech and Media </a>(Wolf)- slide show about the future of tech and media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/10/15/many-colleges-are-failing-to-prepare-students-for-their-working-lives/" target="_blank">Many Colleges Are Failing to Prepare Students for Their Working Lives</a> (Selingo)- a critical look at the outdated structure of the undergraduate experience</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>By the time students graduate from college, their brains are hard-wired to the cadence of the daily life laid out by the nine-month academic calendar. They tend to think about their work in terms of 50-minute classes and five courses during 15-week semesters, with plenty of lengthy breaks in between.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>But the working world is unstructured, with competing priorities and decisions that need to be made on the fly. College is very task-based: take an exam, finish a paper, attend a club meeting, go to practice. The workplace is more of a mash-up of activities with no scheduled end.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This evolution is causing two problems. First, both the industrial and information economy models of education are being imposed on our educational institutions at the same time. At the moment, the effect is more apparent in our schools than colleges, but higher education can expect to face the same challenges. Today, schools and colleges are being required to use the fixed-process, fixed-calendar and Carnegie Unit accounting system of the industrial era. They are also being required to achieve the information economy’s fixed outcomes and follow its testing procedures. The former is true of higher education, and government is increasingly asking colleges and universities for the latter.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Doing both is not possible, by definition. Instead, states need to move consciously and systematically to the information economy’s emerging and increasingly dominant model of education, which will prevail in the future. The Carnegie Unit will pass into history.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 29.7px;">Equally important is the role of the arts and humanities in some kind of complicit relatio</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 29.7px;">nship with STEM. I do not mean STEAM (the addition of the arts to STEM to ‘‘humanize’’ it). I mean hardcore arts/humanities—the kind of thinking and research that enables us to see differently, learn from the past, become empathic leaders, and understand how meaning and identity—the DNA of culture—are created. Without these we are lost.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 30.0001px;">The goal is to graduate kids who have options. They can go on to a community college or a four-year degree program. They can also start a career with a marketable skill and three years of training behind them, making them more likely to secure a job and higher wages, instead of floundering out in the job market, where </span><a data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'407212'" href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to-college/" style="color: #458cd5; line-height: 30.0001px; text-decoration: none;">more than 10 percent</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 30.0001px;"> of young adults with only a high school diploma are unemployed and more than </span><a data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'407212'" href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to-college/" style="color: #458cd5; line-height: 30.0001px; text-decoration: none;">20 percent live in poverty</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 30.0001px;">, according to Pew Research Center.</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408257416126409823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141184724908893158.post-29448768535184154132015-09-11T08:58:00.000-04:002015-09-11T08:59:16.267-04:00Worth Reading<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Passing along a few good reads from the past couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/where-design-engineering-meet/" target="_blank">Where Design, Engineering Meet</a> (Harvard Gazette<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d545c870-5aa6-49bc-916f-0fa7a2692562" id="e2681f6e-41e0-4cdd-a9fb-22794b9d64e9"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f6cbbb31-6488-49dd-b2c2-81876636bf06" id="2f03f81f-dc55-4edd-9fdb-7eb434116106">)</gs></gs>- <span style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mohsen Mostafavi, dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at GSD, and Francis J. Doyle III, the John A. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3ebf5b54-76a3-4975-994a-195435d017c8" id="055413dc-adad-4f28-8f32-01ffb8fd7750"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9be088cb-ffe1-4a1b-a814-dac34d530b37" id="181ccf7d-8447-4493-a293-9dcef569ce30">Paulson Dean</gs></gs> and John A. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="351252af-f0f3-4070-92c1-d2d3d56a0eef" id="580ebb91-4be1-43f3-ba17-8079c43aa66c"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="10daa560-810a-4372-8347-84e979844314" id="445a535f-affc-49dd-a805-a2b83e385f03">and</gs></gs> Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, discussed the origins and goals of a new graduate degree program at Harvard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span class="diigoHighlight id_d9bcda298f35fd2aee4927be21a8ea6f type_0 yellow" style="color: inherit; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;">The composition and diversity of each cohort <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="67156557-5094-4392-a556-19c187b4dfda" id="b7da546e-0d60-4330-b6ac-a0c8c96a72b0">is</gs> critical. If you go back to the engineering approach or design approach from decades ago, the disciplines existed in silos. If you’re in an engineering firm, you might bring in mechanical engineers for one piece of a project, chemical engineers for another piece, computer scientists <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4c9fd5ce-e44c-4ff9-b3b5-4b97875a29df" id="333e4e69-bac2-45c5-b11e-8e6a8a10b54e"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="73c25eb0-4531-4417-8126-c8313870686e" id="c8d1d9ea-9a5a-4262-898e-089e6676f92a">for</gs></gs> a different piece. They really were islands, and they had to put the pieces together, and that <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ce27d16b-8c93-4dcb-8d01-a26fab9c04e2" id="d56bda74-a6ae-46e2-9cc2-c51663c20afd"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2a4a535b-e898-4893-9b15-39733c1176fd" id="048e2997-e2b5-4f25-9c0b-3afd429c177c">was</gs></gs> often a very </span><span style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="diigoHighlight id_d9bcda298f35fd2aee4927be21a8ea6f type_0 yellow" style="color: inherit; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;">ad hoc</span></span><span class="diigoHighlight id_d9bcda298f35fd2aee4927be21a8ea6f type_0 yellow" style="color: inherit; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;"> process. Here, we’re breaking down boundaries. That’s not to say we’re creating jacks-of-all-trades, completely cross-trained individuals, but we are preparing individuals to take a multidisciplinary mindset into a project environment and work across fields. It’s not that we’re just adding four or five disciplines and getting whatever aggregate product would come from that. We are building teams that can be more innovative in how they cross boundaries and collaborate.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="diigoHighlight id_d9bcda298f35fd2aee4927be21a8ea6f type_0 yellow" style="background-color: white; color: inherit; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This is the future of how things will be done in the real world. Students are not getting plugged into traditional silos of very narrow expertise. They’re being forced to work on teams that require multiple skills. Diversity of thinking approaches, of backgrounds, of work experiences: All of these things will lend to the ultimate success of the program.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">2. <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/17/five-critical-skills-to-empower-students-in-the-digital-age/" target="_blank">Five Critical Skills to Empower Learners In The Digital Age</a> (Sung<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="35c7d32f-d913-479b-815f-94423c6810d8" id="a2064025-134d-481a-9fb2-7b2d25028b53"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a5dae2a0-c604-4570-9c9f-1761af85e619" id="717e9148-9a23-4ece-ab21-8520f014e5f9">)</gs></gs>- </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.5em;">Alan November<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 33px;">, a former teacher turned lecturer, consultant and author, challenged teachers to rethink how they start the school year by outlining skills that are crucial to students to learn in the first five days of school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 33px;">3. </span><a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/04/seeing-struggling-math-learners-as-sense-makers-not-mistake-makers/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 33px;" target="_blank">Seeing Struggling Math Learners as 'Sense Makers', not 'Mistake Makers'</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 33px;"> (Schwartz)- </span></div>
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<span class="diigoHighlight id_ccb6032383a10687919a9404f9abcbfb type_0 yellow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 33px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“My goal is for them to become the <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6051674c-3ba6-4241-a577-24c4b738ef0c" id="683f45be-30f4-4dc9-a4df-bdf9b29946be"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="42432b44-33e1-4edc-a432-90a1db729cef" id="52589f77-3504-401c-8a46-bcc8b16adc2e">truthmakers</gs></gs>,” Wees said. “I’m trying to build a mathematical community where something is true when everyone agrees it’s true.” To do that, he asks students to talk through mathematical ideas, struggle with them and give one another feedback. “A major goal of math classrooms should be to develop people who look for evidence and try to prove that things are true or not true,” Wees said. “You can do that at any age”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">4. </span><a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2015/08/four_pillars_of_great_teaching.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">Four Pillars of Great Teaching</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> (Reich)- </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The first job of a teacher is not to explain things clearly, it's to inspire students to want to learn. As Antoine de Saint-Exupery writes, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">5. </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/14475121/Redesigning_a_Design_Program_How_Carnegie_Mellon_University_is_Developing_Design_Curricula_for_the_21st_Century" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">Redesigning A Design Program: How Carnegie Mellon University is Developing A Design Curricula for the 21st Century </a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">(Irwin</span><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cf249fda-f3bf-439d-8509-2d0598aae65c" id="7452c78c-6c9c-4755-9990-5e79358d3046" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7f9d3173-7ed5-4d38-9294-d0da655b05c1" id="e0b1e053-301c-48e9-b3e3-e09a8a9032f8">)</gs></gs><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">- the thought process and rationale for redesigning curricula for the Carnegie Mellon Design School is shared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Design is ubiquitous- we live the majority of our lives in the designed or 'built' world, and design is connected to many of the large problems confronting society. However, its very ubiquity gives it the potential to play a key role in the resolution of these same issues. Design is inherently a problem-solving process and fundamental skills of the designer are the ability to look for meaningful problems, frame them within appropriate contexts, and design a process for developing and implementing a solution.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">6. </span><a href="http://www.wbur.org/2015/09/04/mit-integrated-design-and-management" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank"> To Get Into MIT's New Design Program, Students Must Score High On The 'Love Metric'</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> (Thys</span><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c223c205-044a-4569-a004-3fb71fac990f" id="550ce06b-2d28-46ba-a7b0-7987183ef4bc" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5e6bdad5-3f00-427b-8fbd-0060458c5311" id="9bd6e785-c6fa-40ee-8a09-c4bd6a1be63e">)</gs></gs><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">- explores the type of thinking and skills valued by the MIT Design School</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“The analogy I use is that people learn instruments,” Kressy says as we talk in the big studio the students are occupying in MIT’s vintage Building N-52. “They learn to play violin and cello and tympani and bass and piano, and they become virtuosos in these <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="250d3e69-007e-4b10-ad2d-eaf9e6b9cc60" id="24059417-c80a-4bdb-be46-a55a1657fc14"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="413acb8e-98e2-49f5-82d2-938da203d66b" id="4681397e-4d88-49ec-916c-b3a6328ae59b">sort</gs></gs> of instruments. But when you take these people together and you make them play together, it’s a whole ‘nother ball game. All of sudden you have to respond to your fellow musicians.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The task: build instruments from found materials. And boy did the students find materials. Mechanical engineer Maria Tafur, from Bogota, made a clarinet from a carrot.</i></span></div>
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