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The Learner's Toolbox. Recently at an Adaptive Schools. Seminar, the cohort was invited to think about fractals, which represent the patterns of being and behaving that construct the organizational behaviors of a group. When we think of the invisible fractals forming the patterns of an organization, we might find that as these patterns are constructed:. We add things that we value. We multiply the things we believe and that we assume are good for ourselves and our organization. That we continually seek t...
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social construct | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Recently at an Adaptive Schools. Seminar, the cohort was invited to think about fractals, which represent the patterns of being and behaving that construct the organizational behaviors of a group. When we think of the invisible fractals forming the patterns of an organization, we might find that as these patterns are constructed:. We add things that we value. We multiply the things we believe and that we assume are good for ourselves and our organization. That we continually seek t...
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Key concept Change | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. There is always a need for anyone that can do a simple job thoroughly. Charles Eames penned the statement above as part of his advice to students, and opens Maria Popova’s birthday post to the artist/designer. Eames, with his wife Ray. Portrays interdisciplinary creativity in the ways he and Ray approached design. They made modern furniture, changed perceptions about design. A manifesto for creativity. And is perhaps an apt description of why we collaboratively plan and reflect in ...
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Finding patterns | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Recently at an Adaptive Schools. Seminar, the cohort was invited to think about fractals, which represent the patterns of being and behaving that construct the organizational behaviors of a group. When we think of the invisible fractals forming the patterns of an organization, we might find that as these patterns are constructed:. We add things that we value. We multiply the things we believe and that we assume are good for ourselves and our organization. That we continually seek t...
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school culture | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Summative Season and the Self-Directed Learner. It is summative season once again. IB Exams are in progress. Summative teacher evaluations are due. Report cards are on the horizon, and schools are scrambling to get the last bits of data that will inform the next academic year’s instructional goals, both for children and adults. In the Twitter chat on self-directed learning, collaborating minds raised the following points. The views from the Twitterchat on Self-Directed Learning.
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collaboration | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Why we can’t just do whatever we want (in isolation). This blog post might end up with a nice title like Why Collaboration is Key. But really, it is about why as educators, we can’t just do whatever we want (in isolation). Imagine that you are a student and that the information on this infographic represents a student’s experience in school. What are the chances of most students being able to transfer understanding without guidance? We need to collaborate. Without collaborative str...
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change | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. There is always a need for anyone that can do a simple job thoroughly. Charles Eames penned the statement above as part of his advice to students, and opens Maria Popova’s birthday post to the artist/designer. Eames, with his wife Ray. Portrays interdisciplinary creativity in the ways he and Ray approached design. They made modern furniture, changed perceptions about design. A manifesto for creativity. And is perhaps an apt description of why we collaboratively plan and reflect in ...
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Inquiry | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Polarity: Rigor and Inclusion. There are some ‘problems’ that surface every year in schools. One of these is the tug-of-war between being rigorous and inclusive. Sometimes, we think that the solution to every issue is to become more rigorous: raise the standards and the engagement and achievement will follow. Other times, we think that the solution to every issue is to be inclusive; if we offer enough personalized learning, everyone is happy and the issues disappear. Rigor and incl...
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Approach to Learning | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. What a Teacher Leaves Behind. For Bill Powell, gone so soon. On the Adriatic Sea in the summertime the light on the water is like diamonds at midday. Without shadows the clean blue hues’ incessant sparkling hits the eye and may elicit tears. Lessons from conversations with Bill now eddy and flow within, this sea on which I float tinged with sadness , and the coordinates of my destinations made clear by the lessons’ resonance within. Fragments from T. S. Eliot̵...Men and bits of...
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alavina | The Learner's Toolbox
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The Learner's Toolbox. Teacher and professional development leader at large. Blogger at http:/ myptoolbox.com. What a Teacher Leaves Behind. For Bill Powell, gone so soon. On the Adriatic Sea in the summertime the light on the water is like diamonds at midday. Without shadows the clean blue hues’ incessant sparkling hits the eye and may elicit tears. Lessons from conversations with Bill now eddy and flow within, this sea on which I float tinged with sadness , and the coordinates of my destinations made c...
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