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EdTech
Smart Review | Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards
Getting Smart Teacher Blogger Amber Chandler shares why she's giving her copy Bob Lenz's "Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards" to her superintendent.
Personalized Learning
Baby on Board: You are Never Too Young for a Maker Faire
Bring it on Maker Month - no matter what the age. Shared experiences are prime for learning. Even when it seems like more work than it is worth, do it anyway. You never know what your kids will remember!
Ed Policy
EdTech 10: When Working Together Works
This week's EdTech news revolved around working together to get things done with new leadership opportunities, support for strategies and models, insights into trends and perspectives, and advances in platform integration,
Personalized Learning
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.
EdTech
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.
Difference Making
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.
Personalized Learning
What I Learned From My Daughter’s First “C”
So, what did I learn from my daughter’s first “C" I learned there’s a fair amount of “unlearning” that still has to happen before we will all feel comfortable in completely competency-based learning environments. As more and more schools shift from letter grades to levels of mastery, we would all do well to continue challenging the assumptions we all have about how we define and describe when learning is or isn’t happening.
Difference Making
Knod: Eliminating the Education to Employment Gap
By: Katie Vander Ark. Knod is a Salt Lake City based talent development company working to eliminate the education-to-employment gap by producing job candidates who are ready for the workforce by focusing first on employer needs, not student needs.
Difference Making
When I Grow Up: Helping Young Adults Explore Careers Collaboratively
By: Louie Montoya. Using human-centered research to understand the challenges and opportunities facing youth ages 13-21, BIF developed a reality show series called “When I Grow Up: (WIGU), which follows several young adults who each get a chance to try out their dream jobs for a day.
Personalized Learning
What Do Students Need to Learn Math? Competence, Curiosity and Commitment
By: Nancy Weinstein. What do students need to learn math? Well, it turns out the 3 C's are really important: Competence, Curiosity and Commitment and commitment, writes Weinstein, may be the most important of all. We might not all be math people but we all need math, argues Weinstein, and sometimes commitment is what it takes to learn.