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Learning to ‘Think Wrong’ Could Be the Key to the Right Answers | Creativity on GOOD
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Educational Leadership Introduces New iTunes U Courses | InService Blog
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rebootED Episode 5: Finland’s Education System As Explained by Jarkko Myllari – RebootEd
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Educational Leadership:Students Who Challenge Us:Eight Things Skilled Teachers Think, Say, and Do
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The root of intrinsic is the Latin intrinsecus, a combination of two words meaning within and alongside. It’s likely that our students are intrinsically motivated—just motivated to follow their own interests, not to do what we want them to do. Teachers’ challenge is to work alongside our students, to know their interests and goals, and to develop trusting relationships that help students connect their learning to their goals in a way that motivates from within.
How can teachers do this? It’s helpful to consider this question in three parts: What skilled teachers think, what they say, and what they do.
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With so many ideas for education innovation and reform here at home, why should the United States pay attention to what school systems around the globe are doing? Veteran journalist Dan Rather recently posed that question to Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert in school redesign and teacher quality who was President Obama’s education adviser for his first presidential campaign.
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In a democracy, “we all benefit or we all hurt,” says Darling-Hammond, “depending on the education other people’s kids get.”
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KIPP gains survive new scrutiny, with a footnote – Class Struggle – The Washington Post
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We Should Embrace Confusion | Autodizactic
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The video below, from Yes to the Mess author Frank Barrett, touches on the idea of disruption of routine as a catalyst to innovation, that wimpiest of buzzwords.
Still, if your goal is to get folks – let’s say teachers and students – thinking differently and creatively about their learning, it’s an interesting line of thinking. More important than Barrett’s point about disruption, though, is the point he (mostly indirectly) makes about the role of confusion in helping people think differently.
It connected nicely with a passage from John Holt’s How Children Learn, which I’d re-visited for class this past week:
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