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Of course, before I share this with you, I also want to remind you that I am quick to embrace and celebrate an ecosystem of diverse schools. What I describe below is neither the best or only way to create an amazing school curriculum. Yet, I can write with confidence that this would certainly contribute to a rich, engaging and rewarding school experience; one that gives ample voice and choice to learners while challenging them to grow in character, competence, confidence, and purpose.
What is Curriculum?
The word “curriculum”, as best as I can tell, comes from the idea of a race course. It is a course of study, a pathway that leads to some destination. Yet, others simply define it in the broadest sense as everything that goes into a student’s learning experience in a formal education program. Traditionally, people thought of the curriculum in terms of content, assessments, resources (like books and other readings), teacher-guided lessons and learning experiences, and the like. Yet, more recently, much conversation about curriculum focuses upon standards, outcomes, resources, and assessments; the items that we frequently see in curriculum maps. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/reflections-on-a-professional-strategy-for-eskills-eleadership/
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“When we have a rich meta-strategic base for our thinking, that helps us to be more independent learners,” said Project Zero senior research associate Ron Ritchhart at a Learning and the Brain conference. “If we don’t have those strategies, if we aren’t aware of them, then we’re waiting for someone else to direct our thinking.”
Helping students to “learn how to learn” or in Ritchhart’s terminology, become “meta-strategic thinkers” is crucial for understanding and becoming a life-long learner. To discover how aware students are of their thinking at different ages, Ritchhart has been working with schools to build “cultures of thinking.” His theory is that if educators can make thinking more visible, and help students develop routines around thinking, then their thinking about everything will deepen.
His research shows that when fourth graders are asked to develop a concept map about thinking, most of their brainstorming centers around what they think and where they think it. “When students don’t have strategies about thinking, that’s how they respond – what they think and where they think,” Richhart said. Many fifth graders start to include broad categories of thinking on their concept maps like “problem solving” or “understanding.” Those things are associated with thinking, but fifth graders often haven’t quite hit on the process of thinking. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/ https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/design-the-learning-of-your-learners-students-ideas/
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The delivery of learning via the use of multimedia (also known as eLearning) continues to be a popular choice in workplaces around the world. In my current role as an Instructional Designer, I am involved in the design and development of eLearning courses for corporate clients with the aim of closing knowledge gaps in employees and ultimately improving their performance. The challenge for myself, and indeed all instructional designers, is how to best present information in such a way that it does not overload the known limits of working memory and allows for transfer into long-term memory.
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How will your magazine cover attract the potential buyer’s attention? By being striking. Study the competition and do something different. Create a cover design that attracts attention for being unusual, extreme or prominent; a cover that stands out like a sore thumb on a crowded magazine rack. And as these striking magazine covers demonstrate, create a design concept that is closely tied to the theme of the magazine issue.
So, let’s get on with the show – or the showdown. In the great magazine cover battle, here are 50 striking magazines that have delivered winning blows....
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After three years of promising a blog redesign that would reflect my agency's focus on visual storytelling — welcome to Ishmael's Corner, version 2.0.
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Coréalisée par Okwui Enwezor, le commissaire de la Biennale de Venise en 2015, l’exposition « Making Africa » du Vitra Design Museum montre l’explosion créative du continent noir.
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There’s been quite a bit of flurry about Design Thinking of late (including the most recent #lrnchat), and I’m trying to get my around what’s unique about it. The wikipedia entry linked above helps clarify the intent, but is there any there there? It helps to understand that ... http://elearningfeeds.com/design-thinking/
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'In our Data Visualization 101 series, we cover each chart type to help you sharpen your data visualization skills. Bar charts are a highly versatile way to visually communicate data. Decidedly straightforward, they can convey the message behind the numbers with impact and meaningful clarity, making complex data easy to understand at a glance.'
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Are you a little low on eLearning Design ideas? This post will give your eight useful ideas that you can easily implement in your eLearning design.
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Explore the top web designing trends for 2015. The infographic discusses the top 6 predictions that are set to rule the web designing world in 2015.
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If you’ve been hearing a lot lately about design, there’s a good reason. Design as a discipline has found a full seat at the table of private enterprise as a driver of business value and competitive edge. Recent mergers and acquisitions activity underscores the growing recognition of the critical role of design in innovation, strategy, and business development. Although 42 design firms have been acquired over the past decade, nearly half of the acquisitions happened in the past year (2015), according to the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers influential Design In Tech Report 2016.
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New CAD software takes input from designers, then “evolves” new designs on its own.
Learning by Doing
Education, like life itself, should not be a spectator sport. Merely listening or even reading may create the illusion of learning, but without active engagement, retention of course material, or the ability to apply it, is laughably low. Students who engage in hands-on activities understand concepts more deeply and remember them more accurately.
Project-based, case-based, and team-based learning and problem-solving are activity-based approaches to teaching and learning, allowing students to become creators of knowledge rather than mere recipients of knowledge.
Students might annotate a text or play or work of art, map and analyze data, visually represent change over time, document a neighborhood or community. The web can then make student projects and research publicly accessible.
By learning by doing can take even richer forms. A solver community brings together students and faculty to “crowdsource” innovative solutions to the critical challenges of our time. Tackling a real-world challenge is a proven way to nurture a community of engage, creative learners. One of the broader goals is to transform a class of students into a knowledge network, an ongoing community that can continue to partner and share expertise and insights.
Then there are maker spaces. These are innovation greenhouses, incubators, or accelerators where innovators – whether faculty, students, staff, or others from outside the campus – can work individually or collaborative on projects in a supportive environment.
A new kind of student populates many campuses defined not by demographic characteristics, but by mindset and aspirations. Extraordinarily entrepreneurial, these students, in their spare time, create apps, found start-ups, and devise creative solutions to a host of pressing environmental, health, and technology problems. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/ https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/design-the-learning-of-your-learners-students-ideas/
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Jackie GERSTEIN: I absolutely love planning lessons from scratch. I just got a job teaching technology units for a summer camp for elementary age students. I can design and teach whatever I want – planning for a different theme each week. Some of the themes I am planning are: Expanding and Showing Your Personal Interests Through Blogging, Photos, and Videos; Coding and Creating Online Games; Tinkering and Making – Simple Robotics; Hacking Your Notebook; and Creating Online Comics, Newspapers, and Magazines. I have begun the process of planning these classes through reflecting on what the lessons will look like.
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Thomas Heatherwick is the London-based architect whose Heatherwick Studio has produced the 2012 London Olympics’ hammered copper cauldron, a futuristic version of London’s double-decker bus, plans for a Garden Bridge that would provide a grace note of urban flora for pedestrians crossing the Thames, and the new Googleplex in Silicon Valley. Heatherwick Studio’s first major new building in...
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"The books that give us the most pleasure, the deepest pleasure, combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release."
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4 Mistakes to Avoid while Developing E-learning Course Prototypes - An Infographic
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