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Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin talk education

Okay – and many other things. But still, I admire Seth’s perspective on education so much I thought I’d share this great podcast episode with you. (Also, I recently started a podcast about secrets.) Seth argues that we should focus on teaching young people two essential things: leadership and problem solving.

What would a school like if the entire experience was built around these two essential…

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Self-Organized Learning: What it means and how it can work

Self-Organized Learning - What will we learn from it?#systemsthinking #TEDed #education

“The premise of education is that we know what children need to know and that we can help them learn it” – Sir Ken Robinson (Ted Talks Education, 2013)

Our hope for education is always that our schools are helping people learn faster, better and the right content. School content is designed to be the kinds of things that students might not otherwise learn on their own, but are deemed…

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#Brooklyn Free School #Chaos #David Ticoll #education #Harvard Business Review #HBR #Montessori #Sir Ken Robinson #Structure #Sugata Mitra #Systems Thinking #TED #TED Prize

A Manifesto for Environmental Education

An Environmental Education Manifesto: "The Significance of the Earth and the Power of People" New on BrainNation! #environmentaleducation

This post originally appeared on the Blog belonging to the Minnesota Association for Environmental Education. It is reprinted here, because I’m the author. Pretty sweet, huh? – John

The Significance of the Earth and the Power of People:

A Manifesto for Environmental Education

By: John Smith, MAEE Board of Directors, President, Advocacy Chairperson

“I’m a lumper, not a splitter” said the…

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#education #environmentaleducation #manifesto #social movements

The School is Flat. New on Brain Nation!

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#A Year at Mission Hill #Boston #Documentary #education #Sam Chaltain

Reclaim Failure, Use it as Fuel - new on Brain Nation!

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#Alexis Ohanian #Brave New Workshop #Climbing #Design #education #Failure #How Children Succeed #Improv #Paul Tough #Reddit #Startup #Stephen Colbert #Steve Huffman #University of Virginia #Y Combinator

This is broken. Now what? Seth Godin and Tom Fisher weigh in on designs and organizations and where they fail us:

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#Architecture #Design #Design to Avoid Disaster #Marketing #Seth Godin #Systems Thinking #This is Broken #Tom Fisher #U of MN #U of MN College of Design

Everyone Needs a Champion - Thank you for the reminder, Rita Pierson! (and thank you, TED.com, like usual.)

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#Connections #education #Inspiring #Relationships #Rita Pierson #TED

"The Dilemma of Schools" and where to go from here - New post on Brain Nation!

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#education #Linda Darling-Hammond #PISA #Stanford #The Flat World and Education #The University of Sydney

A Midsemester Night's Dream: Make Testing Awesome

A Midsemester Night's Dream: Make Testing Awesome, America! New on Brain Nation

Make Testing Awesome!

What if we just admitted that standardized tests are first designed to suck – and then tried to have fun with them anyway? What if students represented different classrooms with flags and colors (perhaps uniforms) with pump-up music…

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"IF YOU BUILD IT" How high school students and designer/teachers of Studio H transformed a town in need

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Andreas Schleicher: "Use data to build better schools"

Andreas Schleicher delivers a stellar TED Talk that compels the viewer to question everything they’ve known about what makes a school system excellent. He plainly lays out why we have it all wrong about school funding. For example, summarizing the…

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Is teaching an art or a science? In this video, Sam Chaltain nods to John Dewey and two false dichotomies plaguing education: Art vs. Science & Structure vs. Freedom

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Dana Meadows' 12 Leverage Points for changing any organization or system

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Go Do Something Interesting: Seth Godin "Stop Stealing Dreams"

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Roxanna Elden and the Training Gap: On the Myth of the Super Teacher

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In this presentation, titled “The Myth of the Super Teacher”, educator…

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Mike Johnston Showcasing Revolutionized Schooling

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Colorado Senator Mike Johnston shares his story on the power of…

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10 Lessons on systemic change from Arthur Levine's 2012 Keynote at NEWA on Educator Pre-Service Training http://wp.me/p32se4-F #education #edchat @edwriters @wwfoundation

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