save the world

via @W3IGHTLESS


so - maybe no more bandaids...  :)
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michael schrage

on simplicity

Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, is the author of Serious Play and the forthcoming Getting Beyond Ideas.
Michael Schrage


if it's not clear who 
"owns" simplicity, 
you can be confident 
no one does.

via @jorgebarba
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shakira

early childhood development



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art babble

looks cool.

via @rmbyrne

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seth godin

responsibility and authority

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hans rosling

plus



plus

= social change.

being good to each other is clever...
how can we not?
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carol dweck

on growth mindset:


via post by Jorge Barba.

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sir ken robinson

hour long interview (conversations from penn state) on creativity and innovation



life is not linear.
your own true north - not a well-known path - but you know the direction you're going in.
most people don't know their real talents. and most doubt they have any.
as many people say they are not creative as much as people say they're not good at math.
the element - the journey people have taken to find their talents and what difference it made in their lives.
it's different for everybody.
the book is about encouraging people to take that journey.
find what your children/students are naturally drawn to.

why are the arts at the bottom in ed:
mass ed was a function of mass industrialism - very linear, about conformity
so while arts have been on the back burner, math & science in the front, math & science have also lost out on this - because it's crowding everyone into a field that is an art itself

the problem is not the teachers or the people, it's the system - the obsession with standardized testing.
there's a diff between children and cars. people can tell if they are part of conformity - they turn off.
Jillian isn't sick, she's a dancer.
a lot of kids are being pathologized because they are being kids.
just sit still and stop it.

Singapore wants to be the hub of creativity. we are falling behind.
more free time, less supervision, more clubs, societies, ...
now - tight, competitive pressure.
even on stem disciplines, americans are falling further down. funny - because america has been built on the creative spirit, can-do mentality, sense of innovation and possibility. this generation is the one we will depend on and they are the ones drowning in activity that is stripping creativity.
pop of earth double in past 30 years.

singapore is like comparing us to a city.
in america the best we're doing is nclb which is an irony because it's leaving many behind.
in many places math and science scores are up, some because they are working the system to raise scores... doesn't matter, either way stifling kids.
kids do better when they are engaged.

this is stripping teachers as well. turning them into machines.
usually what you remember about school is the teachers.


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play report

via David Truss' site:



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syamant

article via @futurescape
just talk to me:
I never look at grades from university. I look at what they’ve done, but I look very much at what they’ve done outside work. How do they spend their time? Who do they relate to? Have they moved? Have they been put in situations in their personal and professional lives that were not very straightforward?
I’m concerned about people who have come through their career with “A” grades throughout their entire life, and have never really had any setbacks and have always been in environments where they knew the environment.

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dave cormier

great post on standards testing and creativity. 

thank you @davecormier

fav parts:

“Why are we educating students?”

Over the last few years I’ve come around to what i think I want 

Oscar and Josephine to get from the education system in order of importance.

1. The desire to engage with ideas, combine them and make new ones
2. The belief that they are allowed to do this
3. The skills and literacies they need to do it.

I say in order of importance, because with the first can come the second and with the first two the third is pretty much inevitable. 

Those first two are tricky however, and they are easily confused with ‘knowing things’.  

I lay NO stock in knowing 

a particular thing.  

This is tricky, because I happen to think that knowing a great many things can be very valuable… I’m just not terribly fussed about the knowing of any given thing.

just the tip of the iceberg though - you should take a listen..

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i can't breathe

used to be -  i can't sleep.
now - i can't breathe.

ed - we need to be the vehicle for social change.
we need to have confidence in our beliefs and gracefully question all the assumptions we currently call school. all the assumptions we currently call success.

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adam burk

my friend Adam is doing some fundraising for very worthy causes via his bike...

here's some info if you care to support him..

I am riding in three charity bike rides this fall beginning with the Pedal for Peace, which begins and ends at our beloved Frontier. After that I ride in the Loon Echo Land Trust Hike n' Bike Trek and then the 

Dempsey Challenge. I will be biking 50 miles each time.

If you are drawn to support me in fundraising for any of these causes I would greatly appreciate your help. If you want to support me but are unsure of where to give, my greatest fundraising need is the Pedal for Peace, which is in two weeks. 

The Ride Info

The Pedal for Peace benefits the Business Council for Peace, which supports woman entrepreneurs in Afghanistan, Rwanda and El Salvador to bolster their businesses and provide more jobs. My goal is to raise $250 for this effort. If you'd like to donate to support me in this ride please click here.

I am riding in the Dempsey Challenge with a team of colleagues and friends from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. My goal is to raise $150. All donations will support The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing in Lewiston, Maine. You can get to my Dempsey Challenge fundraising page here to make an online donation:

Adam

Donations for the Hike n' Bike Trek will support land conservation in western Maine. Here is my fundraising page:

Adam

Thank you for your support-be it financial or moral.

With gratitude,

Adam

 

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dan tapscott

from his book, grown up digital, 

find here 

a summary of the norms 

he lays out for this generation of students 

via the digiteen (a flat classroom) project and wiki
the digiteen ning
the flat classroom ning
the netgen ed project
the eracism project
flat classroom via Thomas Friedmans' the world is flat

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basti hirsch

5 week ed expedition across the us


Provo, Utah — p5edu day 34 from Basti Hirsch on Vimeo.

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4 chord song

via @simonsinek If you don't believe there is a consistent formula for success, then you should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

warning - use of the f-bomb



ok - so what about a 4 chord consistent formula for success in learning... at least until we get back to our natural state of curiosity...?

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the learning lab, palomar5, & knowmads

wow @noamkos
this is excellent from the learning lab (click the movie) - - Dr. Thieu Besselink, founder

and this from palomar 5
4 min trailer for 60 min movie:

Palomar5 "The Movie" - Trailer from Palomar5 on Vimeo.

part 1 of 60 min movie:

Palomar5 - The Movie - Part 1 from Palomar5 on Vimeo.
great ideas:

• the graveyard - letting go of ideas that take away focus - even if they're good,
• palometer - mtg at 6pm each night to report progress to group 

part 2:

Palomar5 - The Movie - Part 2 from Palomar5 on Vimeo.

from 2nd movie:
only 25.6% of the world has internet access, only 4.6%  (over 256 kilobits per sec) of the world has broadband access  - spacecamp - build a network that everyone has minimal speed
holy cow - at 5:45 for idea  and 16:27 for Kosta presenting ahumanright.org
Kosta Grammatics - oh yay
ahumanright.org

and check out these students from knowmads - Kwela Hermanns -co-founder

and yes there's more.

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john t spencer

found a cool blog site today..

@johntspencer had posted this on homework... great insight, great model

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college

interesting that 50% don't graduate

and college debt exceeds credit card debt

and college drives k-12

inquiry - inquiry as stance... why do we keep accepting this?

the future is today. let's change it.
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japiz raisdana

quotes via @intrepidteacher within this post: soul force

Our enemy is never 

another person; 

our enemy is the 

wrong perception and 

suffering within him, within her. 

Violence is not inevitable. 

Peace is there for us 

in every moment. 

It is our choice. 

then dang - there's more.

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