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New Pathways
Students Co-authoring Their Own Learning
[…] impact organization and access startup capital, which is more widely available than ever. Marketing guru Seth Godin has wisely said that young people need to learn two things: leadership and how to solve interesting problems. An employer survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers showed demand for leadership, problem-solving, communication and a […]
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Podcasts
100 Podcasts Educators and Education Leaders Should Check Out
[…] has been roughly 15 years since the beginning of podcasting—a media format that, despite a slow start, has risen to peak popularity in the last few years. Things began to pick up for podcasting when Apple included a podcast player on the iPhone. Then, the format really gained traction when suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, […]
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Equity & Access
Designing at the Margins
[…] they learn about the community’s needs. See the Community, See the Challenges: Conducting Empathy Interviews Next, founders in 4.0 Fellowship programs turn to designing and conducting 3- 5 empathy interviews to understand the experiences, emotions, and motivations of the members of the community members they are designing alongside. The community members interviewed should include […]
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Difference Making
Why Entrepreneurship Might Save Our Kids—and the Rest of Us.
[…] academic boot camp for six-year-olds. You must immediately learn to: read, write, add, subtract, tie your shoes, memorize your facts, memorize your patriotic songs, and organize your things, and you need to do it all now. No time to waste. Maeve starts and ends most days with a sort of glaze over her eyes […]
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Equity & Access
Talk About It: Why Asking Questions and Sharing Ideas is a Core Part of Starting a School
By: Dr. Eric Oglesbee I never intended to start a high school. It was in the Spring of 201 5 while walking with a junior high teacher from the private Montessori school my children attended that I asked a simple question whose answer would fundamentally alter the trajectory of my professional and personal life. […]
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Future of Learning
How Design Thinking Transforms Communities, One Project at a Time
[…] community. And the brush they are using to fill it in is design thinking. Design Ed 4 Resilience version of Community Design Thinking is based on Stanford D-school’s 5-step process and also on the National Equity Project’s Liberatory Design processes. The DE4R 6-step process provides a clear, repeatable framework for addressing challenges and drawing on innate creativity and […]
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Career & Technical Ed
Career and Vocational Training Gets a Virtual Reality Upgrade
[…] to college or start their careers after graduation. Just 34 percent of U.S. 12th-graders report feeling engaged in school. Only 44 percent of 11th-graders say they feel excited about the future. Schools are working hard to get students more engaged and looking forward to life after graduation. This has proven particularly challenging in rural schools […]
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20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development
PAGE 1 in Learning & Development 20 INVENTION OPPORTUNITIES FEBRUARY 2021 Photo Credit: Brooklyn LAB PAGE 2 Community Agreement Opportunities 5 #1 Building a Shared Reality: improved access to facts, better preparation in digital literacy, better tagging of synthetic content, visual and logic tools for building shared reality. 7 #2 Agreement Crafting: process skills […]
Future of Learning
Podcast: 20 Trends in 20 Minutes
[…] collaboration, communication, presentation—as well as habits of success, personal development, and wayfinding. We appreciate Seth Godin’s concise summary: leadership and solving interesting problems are the two most important things to learn. 2. Active Learning: There is a global trend toward combinations of personalized and project-based learning. Individualized skill building has been bolstered by adaptive and small group […]
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