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"We are supposed to be uplifted by these stories but they depress me. If it takes a hero to save an inner city school then there is no hope. Heroes are not replicable."
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Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)
"The film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head."
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
Some ideas to fix the American education system.
"I collect a ton of information, then organize it, then I map it to the task I’m trying to do. Then I repeat."
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"The brain is a parallel processor - it simultaneously processes many different types of information . . Effective teaching employs a variety of learning strategies. So having different ways of communicating and and different levels of communication might
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Cognitive Seduction and the "peekaboo" law
"Evolution has seen to it that the very act of searching for the hidden object is enjoyable, not just the final 'aha' of recognition--lest you give up the chase."
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The Awfulness of College Lectures
"So if what he's saying isn't very interesting, why do we subject ourselves to it? How did this become the primary method of education?"
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"We have designed education to promote certainty (i.e. a state of knowing)...we now need to design education to be adaptable (i.e. a process of knowing)."
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Trying to answer the question: "When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?"
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"True learning happens when learners stop seeing themselves as mere students who do homework and complete assignments. True learning happens when they don’t see it as learning."
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Ill-structured process, clear outcome
"I wonder if we couldn't extend that value of learning slightly if we didn't equate it so strongly with structure. I think we can achieve intended outcomes, even if the learning isn't structured or sequenced in a particular manner."
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"Our education platforms should be designed to allow for learners to pull our content into their space."
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"Most of us want to practice the things we're already good at, and avoid the things we suck at. We stay average or intermediate amateurs forever."
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It doesn't come pre-packaged anymore . . .
"As I've stated before...learning is like opening a door, not filling a container. Content is something that is created in the process of learning, not only in advance of learning."
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"Not only are mistakes a great source of insight that we can apply to next steps in our journey, sometimes they're absolutely required to make us stop and listen."
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Blogging as Attempts at Understanding
Blogging "has the potential to help us create . . . communities of learners who approach learning as engagement with epistemic texts, learners who see writing and reading as cognitive tools, who understand the value of thinking through texts."
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Hacking the Human OS: How we learn
" According to Richard E. Mayer, before any message or new idea will be fully understood, a person must go through three learning phases: I like to call them select, construct, and connect."
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9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
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Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: "It's not about what YOU do... it's about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver."
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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What I've Learned: The Collected Wisdom
A collection of Esquire Magazine articles with famous people telling the world what they've learned
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What Today's Students Can Learn from IDEO
Eide Neurlearning: "What IDEO may help specifically with is a more systematic approach to teaching and encouraging problem solving."
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Increase the Challenge, Increase the Attention
Eide: "Older adults and younger school age children had problems with focus at low levels of 'visual challenge' . . . When the task was made more challenging (centrally distracting letters), both the older and younger subjects performed better."
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Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""
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Using tablet PC to take notes using mind maps
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Inflection Points: Personal Discoveries that Redirected Children's Lives
"In the rush to have all our school children 'meet standards' and be taught "what every n'th grader needs to know", we shouldn't forget that some of the most memorable experiences are those which make children yearn to learn more."
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OPEN NETWORKING's Great Dynamic
With email we are only 4 degrees of separation from action learning with anyone
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Creating Passionate Users: "The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn about learning, and learning is the key. Not just as something to get better at (i.e. learning to learn), but learning as exercise for the brain."
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"It looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level."
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Creating Passionate Users: "Give a compelling, personally motivating reason/benefit for the thing you're teaching, before you teach it!"
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