Get in GEAR with Launch of AGILE Instructional Design Course by Jennifer Neibert “We want participants in the AGILE Instructional Design course to be able to build an entire learning solution that not only ensures learners from their organizations actually learn, but also ensures learning is transferred to the workplace and is sustained over time.” Even as instructional designers are challenged to do more and more with less and less, organizations must still keep up with today’s rapid pace of change. And to help instructional designers become faster, leaner, and more effective, The eLearning Guild Academy is offering a live online AGILE Instructional Design course that begins in October 2013. Taught by Conrad Gottfredson, PhD, a performance support practitioner and industry thought leader, the AGILE Instructional Design course employs a groundbreaking approach to virtual instructor-led training (VILT) known as the GEAR methodology. What is GEAR? Why AGILE Instructional Design? AGILE Instructional Design, and more, from the Guild Academy
Teaching Creativity - Professional Development for Teachers A few weeks ago fellow Voices blogger Shelley Wright wrote a provocative blog on flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy and beginning the learning experience with Creativity. As the person most directly responsible for our school’s Professional Development I have been wondering what professional development looks like when you turn Bloom’s on its head. Teachers young and old are comfortable with the old model and path. Even if they have never heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy (it happens in independent schools where some young teachers have never taken an education course), teachers are inherently comfortable with the approach the taxonomy lays out. Ongoing education for teachers in all of Bloom’s Taxonomy except for Creativity is relatively straightforward. Encouraging teachers to teach creativity requires a different approach. Why teachers who create do Creativity so well Art teachers don’t have a monopoly on sharing their own creativity. Teaching Creativity is messy Did they fully answer every question?
Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be. by David Kelly “Curation is an important skill to develop, especially in an environment in which more and more organizations shift towards self-directed learning for their workers. Now is the time for learning and performance professionals to develop this new skill set.” Curation is a term that is rapidly growing in popularity and is directly impacting the world of workplace learning and performance. In his book Curation Nation, Steven Rosenbaum describes it this way: “Curation replaces noise with clarity. Curating the information available within an organization is a growing need, and one that learning and performance professionals need to be able to address. The word curation has become a bit of a buzzword, and that always concerns me. So let’s start with a common foundation for discussion. What is curation? When most people think about curators, they usually identify them with museums. Curation is essential—for everyone What changed the game? Curation today is very much like photography. Crowdsourcing
Yes, You Can Teach and Assess Creativity! A recent blog by Grant Wiggins affirmed what I have long believed about creativity: it is a 21st-century skill we can teach and assess. Creativity fosters deeper learning, builds confidence and creates a student ready for college and career. However, many teachers don't know how to implement the teaching and assessment of creativity in their classrooms. While we may have the tools to teach and assess content, creativity is another matter, especially if we want to be intentional about teaching it as a 21st-century skill. In a PBL project, some teachers focus on just one skill, while others focus on many. Here are some strategies educators can use tomorrow to get started teaching and assessing creativity -- just one more highly necessary skill in that 21st-century toolkit. Quality Indicators If you and your students don't unpack and understand what creativity looks like, then teaching and assessing it will be very difficult. Activities Targeted to Quality Indicators Model Thinking Skills
Using the E-Portfolio to Validate Student Learning February 12, 2013 By: Ken Scott, EdD in Instructional Design, Teaching with Technology Too often our students consider their work in the classroom as required assignments—not work that has anything to do with what they will be doing in the real world. Oh, maybe they are picking up some skills they might use in their future employment, but that’s about it. I see the need for students to understand that the work they do has value-added merit as part of their overall repertoire of academic preparation and social contributions. For example, when I begin the e-portfolio class, I ask students to compile a list of items they would want to use as samples of actual work accomplishments: community service participation, papers written, projects developed, presentations, poster sessions, conferences attended, professional development, and the like. In our media-hyped, socially networked, information-at-your-smart-phone-apps world, why have we in higher education not capitalized on this process?
Creativity - Creative Thinking and Becoming More Inventrous Lesson plans and activities for teaching about inventions by increasing creativity and creative thinking. The lesson plans are adaptable for grades K-12 and were designed to be done in sequence. Teaching Creativity & Creative Thinking Skills When a student is asked to "invent" a solution to a problem, the student must draw upon previous knowledge, skills, creativity, and experience. Throughout the years, many creative thinking skills models and programs have been generated from educators, seeking to describe the essential elements of thinking and/or to develop a systematic approach to teaching thinking skills as part of the school curricula. Models of Creative Thinking Skills The models demonstrate how creative thinking lesson plans could provide an opportunity for students to "experience" most of the elements described in the models. Children of all ages are talented and creative. Creative Thinking - List of Activities
Top 100 Influential Education Blogs | Onalytica Blog UPDATE: You can see an updated list here. Over the last 5 years there was a sharp increase in the number of education blogs in various areas such as art education, technology, creative writing, mathematics, or drama, from primary school level to lifelong learning approaches. Despite this surge in education blogs, there haven't been many attempts at classifying the blogs according to their authority. We will present a ranking of education blogs ordered by their Onalytica Influence Index. The Influence Index we compute at Onalytica shares the same idea with the impact factor that nowadays all academic journals publish on their cover. Our influence measuring methodology is based on the Input/Output model developed by the Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontief. The model takes into account all references and citations between the blogs. The Onalytica Influence Index is the impact factor of a blog, or how much that blog matters.
Is It Possible to Measure Creativity? Big Ideas Culture Teaching Strategies Jeremy Rusnock/Courtesy Imagination Stage By Elizabeth Blair, NPR Let’s start with a question from a standardized test: “How would the world be different if we all had a third eye in the back of our heads?” It’s not a typical standardized question, but as part of the Next Generation Creativity Survey, it’s used to help measure creativity a bit like an IQ test measures intelligence. And it’s not the only creativity test out there. So why bother measuring creativity? He says, “Measuring is an important aspect of knowing where our investments pay off.” Troublemaker Or Misunderstood Creative Genius? In the late 1950s, a man named E. “They were high-energy kids with ideas,” she says, “and those don’t always fit into a very structured school situation. Torrance set out to change that, or at least to prove that creativity was as important as intelligence, not just in the arts, but in every field. Rewarding The ‘More Elaborate Route’ Related Explore: creativity
A Diagram Of 21st Century Pedagogy - The modern learner has to sift through a lot of information. That means higher level thinking skills like analysis and evaluation are necessary just to reduce all the noise and establish the credibility of information. There is also the matter of utility. Evaluating information depends as much on context and circumstance as it does the nature of the data itself. The essay full of fluff may distill quite nicely down to a 140 character tweet. Context matters, and the diagram from edorigami below captures this, though not from the perspective of the student and content knowledge, but the teacher and various pedagogical components themselves, including Higher-Order Thinking Skills, Peer Collaboration, and Media Fluency. (See also our framework on the 6 channels of 21st century Learning.)
Tools | Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley Mindsets, methods, case studies and more — Design Kit is IDEO.org‘s platform to learn human-centered design, a creative approach to solving the world’s most difficult problems. A directory of schools and programs that use design thinking in the curriculum for K12 students — a resource created by IDEO and the K12 Lab Network at Stanford’s d.school. In this segment of 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose visits IDEO and interviews co-founder David Kelley. Rose also discusses the future of design thinking, delves deeper into human-centered design with David in his home, and learns about creative confidence. More footage from 60 Minutes’ time at IDEO here. Want a sneak peek at the book? A creative process that helps you design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. “A 90-minute video-led cruise through our methodology.” “Most people are born creative. Is your school or workplace divided into “creatives” versus practical people?
Ausbildung: Wertschätzung und Selbstverwirklichung ist wichtiger als das Einkommen | Karriere Ausbildung : Auszubildende wollen ernst genommen werden Seite 2/2: Früher ging es bei Jugendlichen eher um hohes Einkommen und Karriere. Heute scheint ihnen Spaß, Selbstverwirklichung, Wertschätzung und Abwechslung wichtiger. Das deckt sich auch mit dem gängigen Bild der sogenannten Generation Y , wie die Berufseinsteiger auch genannt werden. Die zukünftigen Azubis betrachten ihre Ausbildungszeit als Investition in die Zukunft, für die sie gut und umfassend qualifiziert sein wollen. Für Volker Linde, Bildungschef der niedersächsischen Kammern, belegen die Befragungen seine Vermutungen. Unternehmenskultur für Jugendliche erfahrbar machen Für Hotelier Kristian Kamp vom Strandhotel Duhnen in Cuxhaven liegen die Schlussfolgerungen auf der Hand: "Für mich als Unternehmer bedeutet das: Will ich gute Nachwuchskräfte haben, muss ich einen Weg finden, unsere Unternehmenskultur für die Jugendlichen erfahrbar zu machen."