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"Instead of measuring what we value, we have got stuck in valuing what we can easily measure.”
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At the Dalai Lama Center's Speakers Series event "Educating the Heart and Mind", Sir Ken Robinson shares the importance of imagination and empathy in education. Delete the scoop?
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What color is a mirror? How much does a video weigh? Michael Stevens, creator of the popular educational YouTube channel Vsauce, spends his day asking quirky questions like these.
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"Sparking curiosity is a great way to catch a human" 
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April 25, 9:17 AM
Perhaps developing our own curiosities will help us to engage and capture those of our students...... Delete the scoop?
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"Design your own shoe." That's what high school students thought they were signing up to do when they volunteered for an immersive experience in design thinking. Delete the scoop?
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An Introduction to Project-Based Learning
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In this hands-on approach to teaching, students create schoolwork that demonstrates core subject knowledge.
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The following is an excerpt from Creative Intelligence by Bruce Nussbaum (HarperBusiness), out March 5th.It took several hours, but Harry West and his team eventually reached a conclusion about their current challenge: Drinking was weird.West, the...
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Creating magic circles enables a group to solve puzzles, connect dots, prototype, make mistakes, and learn from them. In other words, the magic circle is where the competencies of creativity get “played” out. Knowing how to build one is itself a creative skill.
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March 5, 9:08 AM
Love this! As an educator, when was the last time that you played? As adults have we forgotten the richness that play provides? Do we say we believe in play's value but act a different way? An interesting read!!! Delete the scoop?
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Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud.
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Investing in children being able to wonder". Delete the scoop?
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Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.
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"Investing in children being able to wonder". Delete the scoop?
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While more people are talking about embracing failure, the status quo has a powerful hold on the institutions charged with educating North American children Delete the scoop?
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The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is using toys in a pilot project aimed at increasing communication skills between students. The subur...
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The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is using toys in a pilot project aimed at increasing communication skills between students. The suburban board to the west of Toronto has partnered with Twenty One Toys to introduce its innovative Connexions puzzle packages into the classroom. Delete the scoop?
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How Georgetown Day School is building a generation of changemakers.
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Empathy is everywhere at Georgetown Day School, from the kindergarteners earnestly trading “peace roses” to resolve peer conflicts to the fifth graders spiritedly debating food access in impoverished DC communities. The school’s comprehensive social curriculum, which encompasses all 1000 of the pre-K to 12th grade students, proves that it is indeed possible to meaningfully teach empathy at any age. Delete the scoop?
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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect... Delete the scoop?
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By Katy Tur, Correspondent, NBC News ROXBURY, Mass. — The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating.
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May 3, 10:13 AM
Great illustration of how courage and conviction along with research can transform practices. What do we believe to be necessary for students to learn and how do we see them as competent and capable in their learning??? Delete the scoop?
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Something cool is brewing in Los Angeles that could create a lasting, global effect on creativity in education.
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This workshop also exemplifies the NRBLB ethos and the role design can play in solving big challenges. Social innovation does not need years to be implemented. Instead, it's really about how fast you can get something off the ground and into the real world where the hard work really starts. Delete the scoop?
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Finding a job is so 20th century. That is why young people today need to be more “innovation ready” than “college ready.”
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Reimagining schools for the 21st-century must be our highest priority. We need to focus more on teaching the skill and will to learn and to make a difference and bring the three most powerful ingredients of intrinsic motivation into the classroom: play, passion and purpose.
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April 25, 9:19 AM
This is the reality that the students in our classrooms will face.....how can we best engage in learning along with them in order to prepare them for a future yet unknown? Delete the scoop?
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My friend Delos “Toby” Cosgrove is a fellow blogger for LinkedIn. He and his wonderful organization, the Cleveland Clinic, deserve a massive shout-out for their recent video entitled
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Empathy is at the heart of design. Without the understanding of what others see, feel, and experience, design is a pointless task. When communicated empathy can be truly inspirational. Delete the scoop?
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April 11, 10:56 PM
What keeps us from learning from those who have better results? 
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Finland has a good school system! I want to share this information with you if you interesting about education or Finland look more seriously. Delete the scoop?
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Depressed economy? Let the parks go. Low test scores? Eliminate recess. Worried about vandals? Close the playgrounds. Whatever the problem, too many policy-makers seem to think that cutting back on play is the answer.
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As our world becomes more complex, future generations will need to be even more adaptable and resilient... For a child whose life has been turned upside down, play is absolutely essential for maintaining a sense of stability amid turmoil and helping to work through emotional trauma. Delete the scoop?
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Editor's note: Check out CNN Living's story about a college program creating jobs by training students to revive a 'dying trade.'
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"We’re hearing policy makers talk about it more often. Certain districts are looking at career and technical education as a way to reform schools," DeWitt said. "The focus on project-based learning, how to get students engaged more, is something that’s caught on." Delete the scoop?
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Salman Khan is the founder of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit that hosts more than 3,800 free educational videos online.
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We can imagine ways in which schools can leverage those communities and learn from them. That feels like a real opportunity. But it does require opening up philosophically about the question of where education is happening. We have to move beyond thinking that school is the only place that owns the learning of young people. Delete the scoop?
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What is the future of creativity, manufacturing, and design? How is the Shapeways community and 3D printing enabling everyone to make their ideas real? This ... Delete the scoop?
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"Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating."
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Much has been said about how creativity works, its secrets, its origins, and what we can do to optimize ourselves for it. In this excerpt from his fantastic 1991 lecture, John Cleese offers a recipe for creativity, delivered with his signature blend of cultural insight and comedic genius.
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January 4, 2:03 PM
How can we impact creativity in our classrooms and our own day to day lives. Delete the scoop?
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Best of 2012: Visionaries, Organizations, and Innovations Changing the Way We Learn
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As we're nearing the year's end, let us celebrate the visions, organizations, schools, and people who are on a mission to update our educational architectures. Here are the best educational efforts of 2012 that bring us leaps closer to realizing that full human potential... Delete the scoop?
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