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Piaget’s Constructivism, Paper
Piaget’s Constructivism, Papert’s Constructionism: What’s the difference? https://t.co/insAiYaoAY Your Friday thought read. #edchat
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6 recs for ensuring kids have opps to learn #STEM, blding the foundation in their early years. Requires more suppor… https://t.co/6D9vie6Kn6
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New report from the Christensen Institute.
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What’s Possible with Personalized Learning?
Overview of personalized learning prepared by iNACOL
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New data on the breadth of skills movement in education | Brookings Institution
Interesting Brookings Institute study on the expanding global skills movement in education: https://t.co/qnbRfZAIuo… https://t.co/AdLMdmbJaS
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An Educator’s Response: The Screens in Schools Time Editorial | Tearing Down Walls
Thoughtful, well-researched article from Derrick Willard.
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How to create Higher Performing Happier Classrooms in Seven Moves
New report from Heather Staker out of the Christensen Institute.
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Crafting a Vision for Empowered Learning and Teaching: Beyond the $1,000 Pencil
Article that summarizes a lot of Alan November’s thinking.
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We need leaders who understand how to manage the opportunities of this historic transition. While it is not uncommon to find amazing pioneering educators on any one campus, it is more difficult to find whole campuses that have scaled the innovative practice across their entire faculty. Leadership will make the difference to the rate and distribution of these powerful innovations.
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Transforming our education system is not so much an intellectual/intelligence problem as it is an emotional one.
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From a management perspective, it is much easier simply to add technology to do exactly what has been done before—the same curriculum, same assessments, same schedule, same assignments—than to fundamentally redesign the work and the culture of learning. While there are benefits to automating certain aspects of teaching and learning, we will need leaders who can create professional cultures of innovation where faculty members feel supported in fundamentally redesigning the work to make it more rigorous, creative, and motivating.
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- What are we currently doing within our curriculum that we could be doing better by using technology?
- What have we never done before that technology uniquely enables to enhance teaching and learning?
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Decision Tree to start a conversation
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- Are we adding unique value to what we are doing as a school or district when using technology?
- How can we ensure these changes are scaled throughout the organization?
The questions that leaders should ask themselves include:
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This feels like Scott’s framework but the questions aren’t as clear. Assumes a common understanding of the jargon.
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One of the most important skills we can teach our students is how to ask creative, innovative, and even impossible questions. “The new answers are the creative questions,” Wolfram says.
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A World that is Asking for Continuous Creation – The Principal of Change
Fascinating article from George Couros that builds on Dweck’s mindset work and applies it to innovators