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Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. Find out what it is and why everyone's talking about it

#education reform #21st Century Skills #filpped classroom

One of the main ways The Happy Museum proposes to achieve this will sound familiar to readers of this blog with some experience with social media. They propose using the Five Ways to Well-being, namely: Connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.

Jasper Visser

http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2012/01/02/how-social-media-thinking-could-help-museums-to-turn-out-all-right/

#museum #social media #engagement #the happy museum #participation

Quick and easy guide to teaching with pictures

#education theory #active learning #art history #teaching with objects

“The best way to use digital media to teach them to see history as we see it is to create learning opportunities that make it possible for our students to do history – to practice it – to help them make history, using their own creative impulses, rather than simply giving us what they hope is the correct answer to a question we have posed.”

T. Mills Kelly, Teaching History in the Digital Age (Michigan, 2013),25.

#T. Mills Kelly #Digital History #history education #irish history #Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

"They quit looking to me for the answer and began to engage in academic, intellectual discourse with one another. I was absolutely stunned. It's difficult, because there is some real zing in being the star of the show. You are the final word on everything. But you have to learn to push the ball down the hill and get out of the way."

Terri Camajani "Rid of Memorization, History Lessons that Build Analytical Skills", Education Week, August 8, 2012.

#history education #education reform #reading like a historian

#Irish History #education reform #danielle o'donovan #CRITE #The Irish Heritage Trust

Some of the most productive, and highly professional, people I know work relatively short days and even seem to spend an awful lot of time in contemplation: reading, thinking, staring into space. As one eminent academic said to me, puzzled at so much manic activity in modern living: "I have never worked a 15-hour day in my life." Melissa Ben

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/16/culture-overwork-teachers-children-ghosts-schools?CMP=twt_gu

#lifestyle #educational reform

To Assess Is One Thing: To Understand Is Quite Another. Professor Maurice Holt.

http://sloweducation.co.uk/2013/11/29/to-assess-is-one-thing-to-understand-is-quite-another-by-professor-maurice-holt/

#educational reform #assessment #learning #junior cycle reform

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Albertina Museum, Wien

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Architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born today in 1886. You can browse through a bunch of his concept sketches on our website.

I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong. Here's what I propose. In the 21st century, we flip Bloom's taxonomy. Rather than starting with knowledge, we start with creating, and eventually discern the knowledge that we need from it.

#educational reform #education theory #blooms's taxonomy #21st Century Skills

Building Up Schools in the Sunderbans. 16 year old students from John Scottus school in Dublin teach English in West Bengal.

#education #Bengal #john scottus #teaching english

Eventually, the measure of student performance will be the demonstrated ability to use personal strengths to move gracefully through a connected world.

http://thommarkham.com/index.php/edge-ucation-blog/entry/inquiry-based-learning-vs-standardized-content-can-they-coexist

#education #inquiry based learning #educational reform