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Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace. Via Peter Mellow 
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"This is the perfect STEAM Challenge for the chilly weather we are having! It will teach students all about why we put salt on icy roads during winter. Via John Evans
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This giant collection of LEGO challenge cards is a simple prep, fun way to sneak some STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning into the day. With cards that range from easy to difficult, little engineers will love tackling the designs. Grab your set below and add them to a classroom center, engineering activity, homeschool lesson, or free play. There are so many ways to use these cards! Via John Evans
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Finding ways to engage thousands of people in discussion online is set to change the higher education landscape. Massive open social learning and “nanodegrees” are among the trends in teaching and learning set to shake up higher education, according to a report.
[Full report: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.aspx?storyCode=2016898] Via Elizabeth E Charles
Alex Enkerli's curator insight,
November 14, 2014 10:14 AM
Past the #MOOC hypecycle is an opportunity for social learning. 
Boy Brullemans's curator insight,
November 28, 2014 9:31 AM
How universities shoudl improve the social experience of their online education programs! 
diane gusa's curator insight,
January 7, 2015 7:35 AM
a focused discussion is what I find less in the moocs I participated in.
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TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you’ve yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash off to South America for this global-minded innovation conference, you can get inspired at home by watching the following top TED Talks of the year. Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most rewarding thing we’ve done. In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates took a trip to Africa that changed the way they viewed what was truly valuable. The extreme poverty they witnessed then instigated a lifelong commitment to give back 95 percent of their wealth. Via The Learning Factor
Viren Lall's curator insight,
October 16, 2014 11:13 AM
TED is a great resource for some inspirational stories on entrepreneurship 
J.Frazier's curator insight,
October 17, 2014 9:50 AM
A great forum for insight into some pretty awesome though leader and even those not so awesome that have something provocative to say. |
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Michael Wesch shares about using challenges to motivate learners on episode 282 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Via Peter Mellow
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"Teamwork is a great way to have students bond with their new classmates. This STEM Challenge welcomes friendly competition as students work together in different teams to try and build the tallest cup tower in a time period of 30 minutes. This may seem super easy, but you will be amazed by the different ideas your students come up with. " Via John Evans
GwynethJones's curator insight,
January 7, 2018 9:52 AM
This is another example of STEM really being STEAM.
Like, hello? Architecture Design is #STEAM, right?! -- ALSO, love the idea but I wish the blog post had more information. Like, what are the rules? Are there rules? Can kids use other objects to make it taller? Is there a RUBRIC? Shouldn't there always be a rubric?
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Art Teachers: This was made for y'all. Depending on where you are in your curriculum, pen-and-ink might not be the kind of exercise you'd do as a formal classroom assignment, but it could still be a great way to stretch your students. I know some artists who design a character (an alien? a pumpkin?) or pick a character to draw doing all of the #Inktober prompts. How would you have your alien doing "Swift?" "Squeak?" "Cloud?" "Mysterious?" ...or have them pick a favorite universe to draw in. Harry Potter, Star Wars, Adventure Time -- and have them still do the #Inktober prompts Via John Evans
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For decades, the dominant view among psychologists was that constraints served as a barrier to creativity. Anybody who spends a short time working under a confining bureaucracy, dealing with a micromanaging boss, or sitting in a classroom that teaches to the test can grasp the appeal of this argument. But it isn’t the whole story.
Patricia Stokes is a Columbia University psychologist and an expert in the science of creativity. In one experiment she conducted back in 1993, rodents were forced to press a bar with only their right paws. Eventually, they not only learned to adapt to that constraint, but they figured out how to press the bar in more ways than a group that had free use of their limbs. This has come to be called "little ‘c’ creativity"—a form of creativity not focused on producing creative works but rather on solving practical problems through new uses and applications of resources. And it’s this form of creativity that tends to get short shrift. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
February 9, 2017 4:43 PM
When we have less to work with, psychologists have found that we actually begin to see the world differently.
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Many people thought last week's challenge of saying no to almost everything sounded, if not impossible, at least unwise.
After all, don't successful people say yes to everything and take chances?
Well, yes and no.
"There is a flip side to saying no," says senior editor Erin Schulte, who participated in this week's challenge. "It means you are saying 'yes' to something else more important to you. I'm okay with that trade-off."
"I think there are seasons of 'no,' and seasons of 'yes.' A challenge like this is a good reason to evaluate or reevaluate which one you might be in," she explained.
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October 15, 2014 5:39 PM
It turns out that turning people down wasn't as hard as we thought. Here's what we loved and hated about our week of saying no. |
