Your Class An Idea Factory? Mindshift Thinks So

 

I love you, Mindshift; but I had to import a picture from another source of a girl in a class designing on her own..

1. How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/08/how-to-turn-your-classroom-into-an-idea-factory/ 

2. What Does ‘Design Thinking’ Look Like in School?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/what-does-design-thinking-look-like-in-school/ 

“Design thinking weaves together a lot of the standards that need to be taught in ways that people will really need to use them.”

“They have to be willing to deal with uncertainty themselves; you have to give up control.”
  
3. Iterating and Ideating: Teachers Think Like Designers

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/what-happens-when-teachers-think-like-designers/ 

“This is about making what you already do more enjoyable and more effective.” 


4. Harvard Wants to Know: How Does the Act of Making Shape Kids’ Brains?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/harvard-wants-to-know-how-does-making-shape-kids-brains/ 

 “It’s not a lesson plan; it’s not a curriculum; it’s a way to look at the world.”

5. How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/how-leadership-can-make-or-break-classroom-innovation/ 

“We put students behind the wheel with our guidance, recognizing they will make mistakes, but we’ll be there to get them back on track.”

“I try not to transfer that top down test-intensive energy to the teachers, and instead make the teachers feel like they can take risks and offer them support.”

6. The Case for Preserving the Pleasure of Deep Reading

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/the-case-for-preserving-the-pleasure-of-deep-reading/ 

“Recent research has demonstrated that deep reading—slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity—is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words.

7.  Why Computers Alone Won’t Move the Needle

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/why-computers-alone-wont-move-the-needle/ 

 “You need to have other support structures in place to enable technology to be an effective learning tool outside of the classroom.”