Category: Articles
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Seymour Papert: Project-Based Learning | Edutopia
An expert on children and computing, Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of major books on children and learning. Here he describes learning environments in which children collaborate…
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Thinking Like Breathing | Thoughtful Learning: Curriculum for 21st Century Skills, Inquiry, Project-based Learning, and Problem-based Learning
Which is more important for today’s students, critical thinking or creative thinking? It’s a trick question. I may as well ask which is more important, breathing out or breathing in? “Whichever one I need to do right now” is one good answer to this last question. Another is “Neither—since I…
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Build Your Personal Value Proposition – Bill Barnett – Harvard Business Review
Executives set value propositions for their products — the target market segments, the benefits they provide, and their prices. It’s why a target customer should buy the product. But value propositions go beyond just products. Your personal value proposition (PVP) is at the heart of your career strategy. It’s the…
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A Few Ideas for Beleaguered Innovators – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review
Keep the faith. That’s what I said to a client who is going through a crisis of confidence. Over the summer he had put together the underpinnings of what on paper looked like a promising growth business. But — as is usually the case — the more he analyzes, the…
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Infographic: Textbooks of Tomorrow | Getting Smart
Online Education published another great infographic! This week, the focus is on the Textbooks of Tomorrow: Digital Textbooks Will Take Off as Print Dwindles. The infographic points out many evident truths about textbooks in education today and the ways that digital technologies provide increased benefits. For starters, an ipad or…
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The EDifier – Center for Public Education – The best early childhood education you can provide
What’s the best early childhood combination communities can provide? Until now, research hasn’t had an answer. Although there is a wealth of research on pre-k and on kindergarten, they have been examined mainly in isolation. The Center for Public Education’s new report, “Starting Out Right,” looks at the effect of…
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NAEP: A flawed benchmark producing the same old story – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
This was written by James Harvey, executive director of the National Superintendents Roundtable. Harvey, who helped write the seminal 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” is the author or co-author of four books and dozens of articles on education and has been examining the history of NAEP as part of…
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Freakonomics » The Way We Teach Math, Sciences, and Languages Is Wrong
Instead of teaching physics or mathematics as we teach second languages, then blaming the victims for not doing well, and expecting them to internalize the blame (an example of the Stockholm syndrome), why not use physics and mathematics to ask and answer questions about the world? Rather than starting the…
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Social Media versus Knowledge Management – Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald – Harvard Business Review
On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both require individuals to create information intended for sharing. Both profess to support collaboration. But there’s a big difference. Knowledge management is what company management tells me I need to…
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In Touch: How do you teach problem solving strategies?
How do you solve problems? What strategies do you use? After doing a search in Thinkfinity, I found some interesting online games in CalculationNation created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for developing and practicing problem solving strategies: SlamBall and Fraction Fued. via In Touch: How do you…
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