What the basis of Buddhism has to do with Jack Kerouac, poverty in Italy and Alice in Wonderland. Fast forwarding from ca 1000 AD until 2003 showing Europe's shifting borders, alliances, unions, territories, occupied land etc. Software: Centennia Music: I... 
This collection pulls together resources that have been published at Digital Is that highlight some of these domains within the Common Core’s ELA standards. There are many resources within this site that could have been included and there are more standards that could have been related to these projects too. These projects were chosen to show a range of grade levels, disciplines, and contexts of learning connected to the standards highlighted by Joe. Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools is a collection of tools that we, the people behind Datavisualization.ch, work with on a daily basis and recommend warmly. 
What Frank Zappa's life has to do with e-waste, whale songs, and the black market for body parts. 
"Critical Design Literacy The concept is informed by design thinking, a rich and dynamic process that emphasizes inquiry, innovation, ideation, building, and problem solving. Critical design literacy applies the protocols of design thinking to practice social innovations that lead to social transformation. In the learning environments that we will pilot we want students to become literate in critical thinking and critical designing. The former encourages students to look at their community through an inquisitive lens while the latter encourages students to design for community impact. Critical design literacy challenges some of our most ‘common sense’ notions of schooling. In general schools seek to produce good, loyal, and dutiful citizens. But what if the mission of our learning institutions is to create engaged, critical, and future-building citizens? Keri Facer reminds us that future-building schools must do more than train students to inhabit some pre-determined future. Schools should be community resources and laboratories that help students develop the competence and the experience to intervene in the making of a future that is more equitable, desirable, and sustainable. Critical design literacy also challenges the notion that the primary role of schools is to prepare students to get jobs in the global economy. Because a majority of the students at Texas City High will not attend college there is a tremendous amount of pressure on teachers and administrators to focus on career readiness. Critical design literacy strives to do more than prepare students for participation in the economy; it strives to prepare students for participation in their community. There is something extraordinarily empowering about seeing the world through the lens of critical design, a lens that encourages students to do what designers do: develop the skills to change existing situations into preferred ones. Additionally, critical design literacy embraces the learning and design principles of connected learning, a interdisciplinary research network that believes,”that the most meaningful and resilient forms of learning happen when a learner has a personal interest or passion that they are pursuing in a context of cultural affinity, social support, and shared purpose.” Via anna smith 
Glynda Hull argues for a broad view of literacy, which changes rapidly with cultural shifts and new technologies. The Common Core is a hopeful moment for lit... Via anna smith 
Welcome to Museum Box,
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?
You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. Via Gust MEES, HASTAC 
Designers spend a lot of time giving advice to each other. There has been a litany of books by designers for designers. There have been a few by business people on how design can benefit business. 
This design manifesto was first written by Bruce Mau in 1998, articulating his beliefs, strategies, and motivations. The manifesto outlines BMD's design process. 
Inside the 'seething cauldron of ideas,' or what Bob Dylan has to do with the value of the synthesizer mind.
"DR. ERICA HALVERSON is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education where she teaches and studies Education Communications and Technology, Art Education, Literacy, and Multicultural Education. She poses the question: "In this era of accountability and no child left behind, why ought we worry about teaching the arts in school?" Halverson boldly asserts that if we are truly concerned with producing the leaders of the 21st Century, we must teach young people how to make things on their own, and to foster their creativity and innovative thinking. The art-making processes of telling, adapting, and performing teaches exactly this. Halverson is the author of many articles on the generative impacts of the arts on youth." Via anna smith 
Why remix culture and collaborative creativity are an evolutionary advantage.
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Chris Davis, Powerful Learning Practice LLC By Shelley Wright I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong.
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them. Dangerous things you were taught in school: 1.
Namsa Leuba is a young photographer who grew up in Switzerland with a European father and a Guinean mother. 
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Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers 
If you speak English, you’re a verbal mutt. At any given time, you’re not just speaking English, but Latin, French (Old French and Anglo-French), Greek, and even Old Norse--all on top of Old English, Middle English and, of course, American English. 
Let's consider the things that TED Ed asks the learner to do: watch a video, take a multiple-choice quiz, write brief constructed responses, and read through a bibliography. If I took the name TED out of this scenario, I would suggest that many educators would say that this format is exactly the type of traditional assessment that project-based, inquiry-driven, personalized learning is at odds with. It is perfectly fine to watch a video. It is perfectly fine to view a lecture. It is perfectly fine to quiz yourself on what you remember from the video or the lecture. It is perfectly fine to write a brief response about a big question. But let's not call that a lesson. That's just a starting point. Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
'…we accept the light contained in the work of others without darkening their efforts.'...
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg currently lead Google’s Big Picture visualization research group. And before that, they led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. So what do they do in their off hours? Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in IMAGINE are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer. 
We all know that design can play an essential role in the success of a new product or company, and it’s no secret that many of the most celebrated companies at the moment—Apple and Target come to mind—lead all their efforts with design and branding.... Via HASTAC 
On creative restlessness, the art of context, and the contagion of intellectual curiosity.
While Americans tend to view comics as “fodder for children,” people in Europe and Japan have a more positive view of the medium. Via anna smith |
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