The Montessori Method: An Education For Creating Innovators Imagine an education system that trained students to be creative innovators and leaders without the use of grades, tests or homework. It actually exists and it’s called the Montessori Method. The Montessori Method focuses on fostering a hands-on, self-paced, collaborative and enjoyable learning experience. It teaches students to start small with their ideas, to build them through experimentation and to solve the problems that come up along the way with a sense of stimulating curiosity. One of the most striking aspects of Montessori education is its similarities with the “fail fast, fail forward” do-it-yourself hacker mentality that has built many of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. Even the popular innovation frameworks in the global start-up scene, like agile development and lean startup methodology, share similarities with the experimental process of Montessori learning. 1. Montessori and The Importance of Lifelong Learning Want to learn more about the Montessori Method?
SMART Goal Setting: A Surefire Way To Achieve Your Goals I encourage you to pick up a pen and a piece of paper and jot down the goals you want to reach. Look at each goal and evaluate it. Make any changes necessary to ensure it meets the criteria for a SMART goals: S = SpecificM = MeasurableA = AttainableR = RealisticT = Timely Specific Goals should be straightforward and emphasize what you want to happen. Specific is the What, Why, and How of the SMART model. WHAT are you going to do? Ensure the goals you set is very specific, clear and easy. Measurable If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Choose a goal with measurable progress, so you can see the change occur. Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set. Attainable When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. Goals you set which are too far out of your reach, you probably won’t commit to doing. The feeling of success which this brings helps you to remain motivated.
7 Tenets of Creative Thinking In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? The following are seven principles that I've learned during my lifetime of work in the field of creative thinking -- things that I wish I'd been taught as a student. 1. Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker. 2. You must show passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of developing new and different ideas. 3. When producing ideas, you replenish neurotransmitters linked to genes that are being turned on and off in response to challenges. 4. Your brain is a dynamic system that evolves patterns of activity, rather than simply processing them like a computer. 5. Aristotle believed that things were either "A" or "not A."
8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom Remake Your Class is a 3-part video series that covers how one educator transformed his classroom with the help of his students, some community volunteers, and design experts. Editor's Note: Author David Bill is a designer and educator who consulted with The Third Teacher+ on the Remake Your Class project highlighted in the videos below. The tips in this post go along with the companion video. We are excited by the simplicity (and low price tag!) of this great redesign. Hope you'll share any of your own tips in the comments area below. If you're thinking of completing your own classroom remake project, good for you. The tips below can be used for smaller scale remakes right way. Whether you are looking to reorganize one corner or redesign the entire room, here are eight tips that may help you throughout the process. 1. Students are your primary users and should be at the center of such a remake process. Create Visual Inspiration Students Define Pain Points 10x10x10 Student Helpers 2. 3. 4.
Qu’est-ce qu’il faut que je change pour faire apprendre en 2016 Une chose certaine c’est que le changement est là pour rester. Le monde de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage est un monde en constant changement. Apprendre c’est changer. Henri Boudreault publie son site : La nouvelle variable à considérer, qui a souvent été négligée dans le but d’éviter le changement, c’est la diversité. En formation professionnelle il y a une diversité d’apprenants qui ont une diversité d’objets de formation à apprendre, ce qui devrait initier une diversité de méthodes et de modalités de formation à mettre en oeuvre. Si l’on veut réellement changer, voici ce qu’il faut considérer : La diversité des apprenants : La diversité des objets de formation : La diversité des méthodes La diversité des facteurs qui favorisent l’apprendre; La diversité des potentiels ; La diversité des théories de l’apprentissage; La diversité des représentations; La diversité des relations d’enseignement; An@é
Desmos | Beautiful, Free Math Sensory Systems that Make up the Learning Hierarchy of a Strong Academic Foundation - Integrated Learning Strategies This article contains information regarding important sensory systems and the learning hierarchy that comes from developing each one. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Whether a child is using his or her hands to write, ears to listen, eyes to read, or their entire body to play sports, they can execute and learn best when they are active and using all of their senses to the fullest. When a child’s brain directs the body to sequence and perform motor tasks this is called motor planning. The ability to motor plan relies on adequate functioning of all the sensory systems. To build a strong foundation for learning, we must ensure our child’s sensory systems are developing properly for cognitive development and sensory integration. The Hierarchy of Learning The hierarchy of learning that impacts all five sensory systems used for developing a strong educational foundation are as follows: Vestibular SystemTactile SystemProprioceptive SystemVisual SystemAuditory System
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Videogiochi e simulazione: studiare sistemi complessi con rivolte, zombie, smart city Se io volessi imparare di più da fenomeni catastrofici come distruzioni, infezioni, epidemie e tutto quanto, cosa dovrei fare? Ovviamente aspettare che queste cose si verifichino è escluso: alcune sono fantasione (distruzioni globali) altre poco auspicabili (epidemie). Il modo migliore per testare un sistema complesso e le sue capacità di adattamento sono le simulazioni.Cosa sono le simulazioni? Le simulazioni sono una tecnica di ricerca piuttosto recente – in uso dagli anni ’60 – il cui scopo è quello di riprodurre un sistema complesso all’interno di un computer e vederne gli effetti manipolando le variabili qua e la. La struttura è simile a quella di un gioco: io compio delle azioni dentro un sistema e vedo quali sono le conseguenze. Se non avete dimestichezza con le simulazioni potrei citarvi i Sims, il leggendario gioco di Will Wright, con cui si assume il controllo della vita di una famiglia seguendone lo sviluppi. Riot: la simulazione di proteste e rivolte urbane
Edmodo November 2016 Sometimes it is easier to annotate an Assignment to give your feedback rather than writing lengthy comments. It is now possible to Annotate a Student Assignment through Office Online. September 2016 You can now add Spotlight Apps to your App Launcher. July 2016 Notes that you send to your Groups will automatically populate in the Posts sections of the Parent account! June 2016 Students and Teachers can now add attachments to replies! The Edmodo Store has moved into Spotlight. May 2016 Threaded replies and Likes to replies! April 2016 Quiz Sharing! Collaboration on Edmodo just keeps getting better! March 2016 Topics Interested in following a specific Topic? February 2016 Sign up or Log In with Office 365 and Google You can now use either your Office 365 for business account, or your Google account to sign up or log in to Edmodo. January 2016 Updates to Assignments: Request an Assignment Resubmission: Did one of your Students forget to attach a file to his or her Assignment? Library 2.0
35 Educational Resources to Encourage Inquiry & Inventive Thinking This is a sponsored post. I’ve scoured the internet, including all of my favourite social media sites, to bring you a fantastic collection of online inquiry and inventive thinking resources that I know will inspire and motivate both you and your students. The collection includes Lego, science, practical activity ideas, engineering, videos, animation, technology and a tonne of fun facts – so there is sure to be something for everyone! Sean Kenney Lego Certified Master Builder’s YouTube Channel: Best-selling author and artist, Sean Kenney, uses LEGO toys to build anything and everything you can imagine. CSIRO Crest: CREativity in Science and Technology (CREST) is an Australian non-competitive awards program supporting students to design and carry out their own open-ended science investigation or technology project. Pinterest is a veritable smorgasbord of great ideas across all grades and subject areas. What are your favourite online resources for inspiring kids to think? You may also like: