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Full Circle Associates » Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking
By recognizing the power of external support from individuals, communities and networks, we can begin to design this triangulation into our work. This suggests some competencies and actions, as well as some pitfalls to avoid.
Yong Zhao ELDA Summer Institute
Very smart debunking the international education gap myth, exploration of learning skills.
BLDGBLOG: Who would want to be an architect?
much of the Times's criticism seems predicated on the assumption that, if architecture is a vocational trade, similar to plumbing, then it cannot simultaneously be an expressive art, akin to film, painting, or literature. But, of course, it is both. In fact, the controversy more or less instantly disappears: architecture is the imaginative production of future worlds even as it is the act of building houses for the urban poor or the obtaining of technical skills necessary for rationally subdividing office floorplates.
What sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and Internet identity - O'Reilly Radar
Eliminating the distinction between front stage and back stage not only degrads the workers' performance but causes intense distress--yet that is exactly the situation on most Internet forums. Very rarely can people collaborating or sharing information on a public forum pull aside into a private space.
How IT can enable 21st century schools
Minnesota is beginning the steps toward two state- level entities involved in overseeing public school. A model for this is shown in Figure 2. In this arrangement, not yet law, the State Department of Education is responsible for overseeing the traditional schools in both the districts and chartered schools. A state-level, but non-governmental, NewSchoolsMinnesota will over- see the nontraditional, substantially innovative schools which exist both in districts and as chartered schools....
it is vital to move from the old mass pro- duction model of schooling to a model that engages individual students by offering them the opportunity to personalize their work and to pursue the interests they develop. This change could be hugely important to the effort to retain students, to get them to com- plete school and to get them to do serious and quality work that will in turn give them the skills and knowl- edge they need to contribute effectively to society.
Sweden's "Free Schools" Incentivize Innovation, Better Prepare Kids for Future (Education - Change.org)
Sweden as an example of a country that's revolutionizing its schools. Anyone — parents, non profits, or for-profits — can set up schools that have more freedom and less standardization. So called "free schools" can experiment, and compete for students, with the profit motive of attracting students having the effect of incentivizing successful innovation.
How to Save the World
If we really want to learn it competently, we need to identify a mentor -- but not a teacher. The mentor's role is very similar to the demonstrator's role in apprenticeship learning -- answering questions and acting as a 'sounding board'. The mentor doesn't tell you what to learn, or how to learn, or assess how well you've learned. That's the learner's responsibility. The mentor is responsive and the process is conversational. The mentor is selected by the learner, not assigned to him or her.
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
Meier has emphasized the importance of developing five “habits of mind”: the value of raising questions about evidence (“How do we know what we know?”), point of view (“Whose perspective does this represent?”), connections (“How is this related to that?”), supposition (“How might things have been otherwise?”), and relevance (“Why is this important?”).
It’s not only the ability to raise and answer those questions that matters, though, but also the disposition to do so.
Futurity.org – Separating historical fact from film fiction
The misleading effect occurred even when people were reminded of the potentially inaccurate nature of popular films right before viewing the film,” Butler says.
“However, the effect was completely negated when a specific warning about the particular inaccuracy was provided before the film,”
Everyday Sociology Blog: Social Structure and the Subway
One of the hallmarks of sociological thinking is to recognize the existence and impact of structure.
Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school—By Mark Slouka (Harper's Magazine)
Whatever the question, math and science (so often are they spoken of in the same breath, they’ve begun to feel singular) are, or is, the answer. They make sense; they compute. They’re everything we want: a solid return on capital investment, a proven route to “success.” Everything else can go fish.
Kappan Magazine
: "[N]o truly trustworthy studies have been done on modified school calendars that can serve as the basis for sound policy decisions." Policy talk about year-round schools has easily outstripped results.14
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If the evidence suggests that, at best, a longer school year or day or restructured schedules do not seem to make the key difference in student achievement, then I need to ask: What problem are reformers trying to solve by adding more school time?
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for the past quarter century -- A Nation at Risk (1983) is a suitable marker -- policy elites have redefined a national economic problem into an educational problem. Since the late 1970s, influential civic, business, and media leaders have sold Americans the story that lousy schools are the reason why inflation surged, unemployment remained high, incomes seldom rose, and cheaper and better foreign products flooded U.S. stores.
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