Consider this simple truth: “The most important things can’t be taught, they must be learned. […] You can learn the principles but you can’t learn the patience. You can copy the answer but not the understanding and confidence …”
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With reads from the NEXT newsletter, NAIS Independent Ideas blog, and Medium …
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What if we treated skills as a portfolio that requires careful balancing?
What would our ratio of expiring vs. enduring skills look like? …
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There is a certain persona—often a start-up founder or technologist—who talks about what schools will (or at least should) teach. A recent example …
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With reads from the CompetencyWorks blog, the Wall Street Journal, and the Gap Letter …
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What if certain tectonic trends are inevitable?
What kind of models can we prepare to imagine how the inevitable might affect us? …
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In the earlier part of this century, it was all the rage to make predictions about the year 2020. Part of the fun was punning on 20/20 vision.
Of course, no one had a crystal ball and I’m pretty sure most schools weren’t predicting a global pandemic …
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With reads from the Triangle Associates blog, Inc.com, and Intrepid ED News …
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My new favorite social media account is Visualize Value (@visualizevalue on both Twitter and Instagram). Below are their illustrations for an Albert Einstein quote: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand” …
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Indira Gandhi once said, “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
In the midst of a pandemic, here is a question that feels especially relevant to the basis of our progress:
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What if everyone had a candid conversation about what we’re optimizing for as an organization?
Would we discover that teachers are optimizing for grades in the gradebook? For covering all the content in their curriculum? For ensuring that every kid in their classroom is known and loved? …
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Pablo Picasso once said, “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Putting aside the hyperbole of “useless,” he had a point: questions are more powerful than answers …
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With reads from the Global Online Academy blog, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Twitter …
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What if schools have been focused on the “evidence of impossibility” rather than the quality of our experiments? …
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The Pessimists Archive recently wrote, “On [January 3] in 1496 Leonardo Da Vinci did a failed flight experiment. 405 years later” …
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With reads from the NEXT newsletter, Medium, and Harvard Business Review …
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What if every system is perfectly designed to get exactly the results it gets?
When you hold a mirror up to your own system, what do you see? …
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Not since the Civil Rights Movement of 60 years ago has America had to confront so many simultaneous ruptures in the social fabric …
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With reads from the NAIS Independent Ideas blog, Inside Higher Ed, and the NEXT newsletter …
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