Personalized Learning Plans for Teachers. A Bacon Apart. Pavelka Point pork side from Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Shawn Cornally When a student comes to you and asks, "Can you teach me how to make bacon? ", the only response is to start immediately. When you work at a competency-based school, your second response is, "And we'll turn it into a chemistry credit!
" This student was not interested in how to cook bacon per se -- that's an easy enough task once you've acquired a griddle and some heat. This is where things can go from good to awesome. By way of a little backstory, my school (called "The Big Ideas Group" or BIG) delivers 90% of our content through projects and problems, and we write individual competencies that are correlated back to standards for our assessments. So, when a student pitches an idea, he or she knows that it's about to turn into a magical tour-de-force of all the science and math I can shove into the process of curing, smoking and serving one of the most storied preparations of pork. Where do you get raw bacon? The Smell of Success. Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton. SYMPOSIUM: Wrap-up - Personalized Learning Initiative. Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante at TEDxUniversityofNevada.
The Long Tail in Education. Competency Model Clearinghouse - Industry Competency Models. On Being a Real Person: The Missing Core of K-12 - Vander Ark on Innovation. A small green book with the audacious title anchors a prominent stack of books in our family room. On Being a Real Person by Harry Emerson Fosdick offers up a formula for health and happiness rooted in personal responsibility and his Baptist faith. Seventy years later there are fewer of us with Harry's formulaic clarity. George Packer's new book outlines America's unwinding , "allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward.
" David Brooks writes frequently about the impact of the unraveling social contract, "People don't behave badly because they lack information about their shortcomings. They behave badly because they've fallen into patterns of destructive behavior from which they're unable to escape. " In Emerson's day, many students experienced alignment of behavioral expectations between school, home, and a faith congregation.
The role of school. Why We Need to Redefine Intelligence - HBR IdeaCast. An interview with Scott Barry Kaufman adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. Download this podcast SARAH GREEN: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green. I’m talking today with Scott Barry Kaufman. He’s on the faculty at NYU. And he’s author of the book Ungifted– Intelligence Redefined, the truth about talent, practice, creativity, and then many paths to greatness. SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN: Thank you. SARAH GREEN: So I thought we would just start with why redefine intelligence? SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN: Yeah, it’s a great question. But what I’ve done in trying to look at all different kinds of minds and ways that we can achieve success in the real world once we get out of school, and the importance of things such as inspiration, and motivation, and engagement in something that personally interests you– what I started to notice was a repeating pattern over and over again.
All this stuff. EPIC Functional Spec | EPIC 2020. EPIC Functional Specification by Bill Sams, 5 June 2012, Copyright The Evolving Personal Information Construct EPIC is designed to optimize the potential of every person who uses it. EPIC will know everything that you know and understand everything that you need to know to optimize your life. How will EPIC know you? EPIC will measure and understand your learning styles, attention span and learning maturational level. EPIC will understand how you organize information as well as your beliefs and biases.
EPIC will organize and present information to you so that it seamlessly connects to your prior knowledge. Personal Knowledge: One of the primary objectives of EPIC is to optimize your personal well being. Content Knowledge: EPIC will build a core knowledge and skill base that optimizes your analog conversion and processing of digital data. Social Knowledge: Emotional Knowledge: Physical Knowledge: Professional Knowledge: Social Issues: Like this: Like Loading... Gallup's Five Domains of Well-Being. Brandon Busteed of Gallup » Video. Gallup-HOPE Index Cities Initiative. With 77% of all youth reporting that they want to be their own boss, and only 5% of youth reporting that they have a business internship today (or business mentor), the challenge is obvious. America simply cannot compete on the world stage, nor create the one million required business start-ups annually that research estimates America needs now to power GDP growth, and the job creation essential for the nation (America creates approximately 400,000 start-ups annually today), without her 30 million youth, 5th through 12th grade, showing distinct and increasing levels of economic energy, leading into adulthood.
To “Win the Future,” Gallup and HOPE believe that every city in America should engage the Index in the following ways: Ask for the Gallup-HOPE Index to be donated to your local school district for use semi-annually with all your youth, 5th-12th grade (easy online access and participant anonymity). US Army Learning Concept 2015. A Blue Sky Workshop STEM Futures.
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