July 2012
14 posts
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An Ode to Math
We love mathematics, and we wish everyone else did too. As popular as Salman Kahn’s math videos have recently become, we don’t think his online methods do all that much to spread the love, which for us stems from math’s beauty and its elegant elucidation of patterns and processes all around us in the real world (Khan’s real world program actually does this much better)....
Hyper Island
From Hyper Island, a new kind of learning institution for a new era of hyperchange, launched in 1996 in Sweden, now international:
We are Hyper Island.
Hyper Island designs learning experiences that enables companies and individuals to develop, grow, and rise to the challenges of tomorrow’s transformative technology. Our mission is to spark a passion for learning that lasts for life.
We...
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Money and Life: The Documentary
“The more we can understand where we are and frame that understanding and share that understanding, the more capacity we have as individuals and as a collective to not only tell a new story but to live into it, to really innovate and experiment into fully living it and really being and doing the change that we intuit in our bones is possible.”
“But it’s not a given, and I...
A Curious Summer: Wish We Went to This Summer...
Michael Karnjanaprakorn, CEO of Skillshare:...
“I think one of the biggest problems with education is that it’s no longer about learning. And what we mean by that is education is very top-down driven where learning is very bottom-up. Education is kind of what someone tells you to do whereas learning is…what you want to learn and what you’re passionate about, what you’re curious about. And for us, you know, our goal and...
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Faces of Learning
From Faces of Learning, which gathers stories from learners of all ages:
Faces of Learning is a national grassroots engagement initiative that aims to help everyone — young and old, educator and non-educator, Democrat and Republican — see more clearly what powerful learning actually looks like (and requires).
Convened by the Q.E.D. Foundation, we are a decentralized, collaborative,...
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Prezi: Math Is Not Linear →
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The Independent Project
“We learned how to learn, we learned how to teach, and we learned how to work.”
A New York Times op-ed piece by Susan Engel entitled “Let Kids Rule the School,” profiles a recent school-within-a-school project independently designed and run by eight high school students, called the Independent Project:
We want young people to become independent and capable, yet we...
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Alternate Reality Games for Learning
An exciting frontier in the design of learning experiences is the development of Alternate Reality Games for education. An Alternate Reality Game is a sort of role-playing game in which players “play” themselves in a constructed alternate reality that they encounter in the real world. Players typically participate in a plot-driven story presented through various interactive media...
Until Everyone Is A Teacher
Mat here. The edtech newsletter put out by EdSurge asked its subscribers today what they thought of an article in the online Wall Street Journal written by Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute, entitled “America Has Too Many Teachers.” I started drafting an email to them about my thoughts on it, and just couldn’t stop writing about how troubling the article was, so I thought I...
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Gever Tulley Teaches Life Lessons Through...
From Gever Tully, founder of Tinkering School and Brightworks:
“Success is in the doing, failures are celebrated and analyzed, problems become puzzles, and obstacles disappears.”
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Teaching As A Subversive Activity: What Do Good...
From Teaching As a Subversive Activity, by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner:
What do good learners believe? What do good learners do? First, good learners have confidence in their ability to learn. This does not mean that they are not sometimes frustrated and discouraged. They are, even as are poor learners. But they have a profound faith that they are capable of solving problems, and if...
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High Tech High: Dreaming and Doing
Despite our generally non-institutional approach to the learning revolution, we must say we are inspired by the innovative High Tech High in San Diego. HTH is a model for the possibilities of educational institutions, doing everything it can to advance radical changemaking in education, running a very different kind of graduate school of education, along with a host of professional development...
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Calvin & Hobbes: In The Cosmic Sense
