March 2012
“Work is what we do by the hour. It begins and, if possible, we do it for money....”
– Lewis Hyde’s 1979 classic, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love | Brain Pickings
“16. The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is...”
– Hugh MacLeod How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love | Brain Pickings
How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love |... →
Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.
“Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.” But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. I myself am a firm believer in the power of curiosity and choice as the...
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Active Conversations
It Takes People to Make a Change, Not a Government (Guest post by student Diego Negrón Reichard)
A Positive Vision of a Transformed Education
The Definition of Education
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Self-Organized Learning in the Standardized Classroom: Possible?!
Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five Alternatives)
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
That...
February 2012
“At school I had somehow become less believable, less trustworthy, and definitely...”
– When School Goes Against Your Very Nature. | elephant journal
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CMRUBINWORLDAUTHOR: The Global Search for... →
cmrubinworld:
“In the Finnish public education system we already have a music, visual arts, and crafts education that is compulsory for all students.” - Dr. Eija Kauppinen
The Arts Face to Face
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, a…
March 1 Day of Action for Education Nationwide →
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50+ Education Blogs
I have been collecting powerful and useful education blogs over the last few years, here are some of them! Enjoy!
A Better Education
A Space for Learning
Birth of a School
Bridging Differences
Cooperative Catalyst
Deborah Meier’s Blog on Education
Democratic Education
dy/dan_math
Ecology of Education
ED.gov Blog
edReformer
Education on HuffingtonPost.com
Education...
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Self-Organized Learning in the Standardized...
So, how do do we satisfy DoE-defined Grade-Level Expectations, appease the managerial preconceptions of a typical administration, and still create space for students to determine the direction of their own education?
First tool: Project Based Learning. This is a popular concept by now and most principles will gladly recognize it. With PBL, students are often working together (social...
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Coopertive Catalyst
A Positive Vision of a Transformed Education
OCCUPY EDUCATION
Getting Real About Engagement (Guest Post By Adam Fletcher)
Occupy High: A Protest of Education Funding Cuts (Guest Post by Kalila Bohsali)
Can A Community Support Education? (Guest Post by Donna Mikkelsen)
These Kids Nowadays! School Change and the New Generation Gap (Guest Post by Lisa Cooley)
Guest Posts
Our Schools Have Been...
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What is your positive vision for a transformed...
Every day we are presented with news stories, and countless blog posts presenting a negative narrative of the state of learning, education, and schools in America today. We talk about outcomes and test scores, about accountability and rigorous academics, about drop out rates and bad teachers.
We are really good as a nation about voicing what we do not want and what is not working, yet we...
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Cooperative Catalyst →
cooperativecatalyst:
Active Conversations
Our Schools Have Been Hijacked: Let’s Talk About It
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
The Definition of Education
My Inner Pollyanna’s Ed Reform Blue Sky
Attention please! I just stopped paying attention – to you!
The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five...
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“On the other hand, if they lose their bid to unseat Obama, they will have...”
– 2012 or Never
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Democracy in, democracy out
Don’t Hate, Collaborate! (Or, having fun while doing “serious” learning)
What does it mean to be well-educated?
How do successful school systems treat teachers?
No Friction Homework
If You Were A Learning Entrepreneur
What’s The Purpose of Education?
Tour Of Our Lives
Real Education Is Human
First Year Reflection: Kirsten
The Kids...
How often is your learning/teaching relevant,...
adventuresinlearning:
Follow up Questions:
what helps make your learning relevant, meaningful and engaging?
What type of learning environment?
Explain what impends this type of learning or teaching for you or your students?
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“For a decade, the Bush-era federal law called No Child Left Behind has required...”
– No Student Left Untested by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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“All such schemes rely on standardized tests as the ultimate measure of...”
– No Student Left Untested by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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How often do you get to decide/design what you...
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Human-Centered Schools: Aprendiz City School in... →
During the visit, Her Majesty Queen Rania became familiar with the work of the Aprendiz City-School, a programme which represents the best in education: a ‘school for life’, which works to address the needs of the child, their family and the community, and recognizes that being educated is much more than just reading and writing.
“I was very impressed with my visit this morning...
“People do not participate, because their participation has been meaningless in...”
– That which renders us powerless, and what to do about it* « Cooperative Catalyst
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Human-Centered Schools: What are examples of... →
humanscaleschools:
IDEA sees democratic education as a spectrum that includes many types of learning environments. They incorporate elements such as authentic assessment, inconvenient youth voice, participatory decision making, and youth-adult advisories.
Here are a few forms that democratic education can take:
* Schools, those that label themselves “democratic” as well as those that embody...
“#democracy
The important thing is to help men (and nations) help themselves,...”
– Paulo Freire from Education for Critical Consciousness (via educatedtodeath
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Cooperative Catalyst
Active Conversations
The Definition of Education
Accidentally Existential
An indictment of whom?
Leverage Learning Not Teaching—A Reflection on Sugata Mitra’s Emergent Pedagogy
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
What is My Grading Philosophy?
Democracy in, democracy out.
What Factors Influence...
Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I'm Not Going Back →
I was glued to my phone, until I realized it was making my life easier, not better.
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Troubled Terms :: Reclaiming Reform | Education... →
Over at Failing Schools, we’ve spent a lot of time unpacking overused, mis-used and deceptively-used terms that tend to pollute discussions of education policy rather than improving them.
Instead of making the discussion easier to understand and participate in, these terms are intentionally used by certain speakers as a way of disarming listeners, either by pushing them to implicitly agree...
Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students... →
Here’s what Mazur has figured out about what goes on when the students talk with each other during peer instruction:
“Imagine two students sitting next to one another, Mary and John. Mary has the right answer because she understands it. John does not. Mary’s more likely, on average, to convince John than the other way around because she has the right reasoning.”
But here’s the irony. “Mary...
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How often is your learning/teaching relevant,...
Follow up Questions:
what helps make your learning relevant, meaningful and engaging?
What type of learning environment?
Explain what impends this type of learning or teaching for you or your students?
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“For starters, we have to fully restore social studies to the core curriculum....”
– Democracy in, democracy out. « Cooperative Catalyst