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A Vision for Every Student: Exploration-Based Learning
By: Kelly McGrath. Exploration-based learning is an active learning approach. Students’ abilities are dynamically balanced with difficulty level in the system to provide exhilarating and fulfilling learning experiences.
Making MOOCs Teacher-Centered, Competency-Based and Personalized
The Learning Differences team at the Friday Institute is employing a modified take on the “traditional” MOOC structure, for their MOOCs for Educators, or MOOC-Eds, which is allowing them to meet the unique learning styles of teachers participating in the new course.
Most Likely to Succeed: The Future of School Tour
Ted Dintersmith, Executive Producer of the Most Likely to Succeed, is on a mission to change our education system. Ted is visiting every state to lead movie screenings and spark important conversations with educators, community members and policy makers.
The Essential Role of Movement in Learning
By: Scott McQuigg. As we think strategically about how to structure next-gen classrooms, the word ‘active’ belongs in the vocab list alongside blended, personalized, project-based, and many others.
Not Your Cupcake Sale: Parental Involvement that Drives Learning
By: Arina Bokas. What type of involvement really affects learning? Here's a look at the state of parent involvement spawned from recent story of Dee Heinz – a Texas mom who came up with a humorous flyer asking families to donate money in lieu of time-consuming fundraisers.
Smart Parents and Back to School Preparations: Supporting Kids’ Social Learning
By: Jennifer Miller. Now is a perfect opportunity to consider how you will prepare your kids for the social and emotional learning that occurs at school. Take these small steps to model and build caring connections.
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
By: Daniel Rabuzzi. Geoff Colvin, long-time senior editor of Fortune, has written a very important book for all of us engaged in education and youth development: Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will.
Leading Personalized Learning Literacy Tools
By: Emily Kirkpatrick. With literacy tools, as we get better and better at engaging student passions and stoking their curiosity, we will continue to open doors to new possibilities for learning and achievement.
How to be the Superhero in your own Movie
By: Dhruv Govil. Now more so than ever it’s possible to be the superhero in your own movie. Here are the mindsets and strategies that worked for me as I went from almost failing out of high school to Sony Pictures.
Learning Never Stops, Not Even During Testing
By: Annie Murphy Paul. What if every standardized test taken by American students came with a growth mindset intervention, or a purpose for learning intervention? What if the mandate to test “every child, every year” became instead a mandate (or an option) to give tools for learning and growth to every child, every year?