In Thomas Frey's recent blog post, "52 Future Degrees Colleges Are Not Offering Yet," he points out that "Colleges have a long history of being blindsided by new technologies” …
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Read MoreWhat if we designed learning to evoke "the tension," to create the conditions for learners to do their best work? …
Read MoreIn a recent episode of Seth Godin's podcast Akimbo called "Distribution and cultural identity" (S2E4), Godin fields a question at the end about "the tension” …
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Read MoreWhat if your school could mandate only one learning experience? What might you choose?
Read MoreI recently came across this tweet and it got me wondering:
If you could only mandate one learning experience for students, what would it be? …
Read MoreWith reads from Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, and Knowledge @ Wharton …
Read MoreWhat if we organized school around sending learners on journeys through liminal states that help them to discover, step-by-step, who they are and who they could be?
Read Moreliminal
(ADJECTIVE)
Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
With reads from KQED, Forbes, and EducationDive …
Read MoreWhat if you could create a school just for you? What might that learning experience look like?
Read MoreI just returned from a week in Ireland with my father and my soon-to-be-11-year-old son, Maxwell. Given the country's literary history, it was no surprise that his love for storytelling and performance was in full bloom, as you can see from the photos above …
Read MoreWith reads from Forbes, Independent School Magazine, and Farnam Street …
Read MoreWhat if your school announced a grading philosophy like this? …
Read MoreThe theme for this week's issue is "Signals from the Edge" ...
Read MoreWhat if we reorganized school so that its primary purpose were to prepare learners to journey into the unknown …
Read MoreDuring World Cup Russia 2018, FiveThirtyEight ran a piece comparing players in this tournament to some of the all-time greats …
Read MoreWith reads from Independent School Magazine, the Global Online Academy Blog, and the IDEO Blog …
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