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Jul 14, 20173 min read
Consumers of Knowledge, Meet Your New Personal Shopper
Watching my college sophomore adjust her fall class schedule recently has reinforced for me the very real way in which colleges must...
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Aug 26, 20153 min read
3 Ways to Avoid School-as-Usual
50.1 million children will attend school in grades PK-12 this fall, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of those,...
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Aug 24, 20155 min read
Can We Teach Someone to Be More Self-Directed?
If you are familiar with the story of Timothy Doner, the kid who taught himself 20 languages, you are probably not only impressed by his...
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Aug 24, 20152 min read
Can We Back Into a Plan for More Relevant Learning Design?
If we look ahead to tomorrow’s workplace, we know that employees need to be increasingly: Agile thinkers and problem solvers Technically...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
What Did You Do This Summer?
When people ask “How’s your summer going?” it reflects a paradigm built around a traditional school year calendar but which applies to a...
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Aug 23, 20152 min read
Start AIMMING for Success
It’s time to start AIMMing for success. AIMM is a simple acronym for Academics Integrated with Making and Mentoring, a straightforward...
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Apr 7, 20154 min read
Replace High Stakes Testing with Higher Return Design Thinking
Several articles in the past couple of weeks have highlighted the methodology of design thinking for both the business environment and...
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Apr 7, 20154 min read
Backing Into School Design from the Workplace of Tomorrow
I originally posted portions of this in a blog titled “This is a School That Johnny Wants to Attend.” A couple of readers thought the...
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Mar 24, 20155 min read
What a Mountain Climber Can Teach Us about Education
“He climbed with partners now and then but mostly spent time by himself and free-soloed — first on easy routes and then, as his...
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Mar 3, 20154 min read
Learning How to Do Good
Social entrepreneurism is a goal to which many of us aspire, but how do you even start? The team at Goodnik has made it their business to...
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