Contemplating my next personal learning challenge – Design Lab?

Recently, I brought to soft closure a personal learning challenge that I named CHANGEd: What if…? 60-60-60. Now, I am hungry for my next personal learning challenge, and I am thinking about Design Lab, which I just discovered because of colleague @occam98. I’m signed up, and I received the email confirmation below. Anyone want to [...]

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“The School Day of the Future is DESIGNED”

The School Day of the Future is DESIGNED February 22, 2011 | 11:11 AM | By Tina Barseghian, from KQED & NPR Mind/Shift: How we will learn. All of these innovative models are showing us that incredible results, and experiences are possible when we design the school day with the needs of the student in [...]

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Dreaming #PBL: Whatever It Is I Think I See Becomes a PBL to Me!

Whatever it is I think I see becomes a PBL to me! [sung to the tune of 1977 Tootsie Roll commercial embedded below] If you were alive and watching TV in the mid to late 1970s, then perhaps you remember this 30 second advertisement from Tootsie Roll… Simply replace “tootsie roll” in the jingle with [...]

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Schooled: a video by Jeff Sharpe and Be Playful

A powerful thought-provoker that speaks for itself, this video has been on my mind since September when I participated in RE:ED Next Chapter 2011 – Imagine Designing the Future of K-12 Libraries.

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If not now, then when? If not me, then who? Inspired by Mick Ebeling and #Synergy

Brief context: I co-facilitate a course for eighth graders; the course is called “Synergy.” Synergy is a non-departmentalized, non-graded, transdisciplinary, community-issues-problem-solving course. My teaching and learning partner Jill Gough (@jgough; Experiments in Learning by Doing) and I co-created the course and we are the two adult-learners among twenty-four student-learners. [If you want to know more [...]

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