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Shelley Wright’s essay, Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy is a must read, and a possible game changer.  She argues that if we want to embed Nth C (21C) skills in our curriculum we can and must start with the most important elements of creativity and work up to the derivations of knowledge.  In between she posits a process of student…

Cross posted from The Learning Pond

In her essay for NAIS, “The Solutionaries Education for a Better World”, Zoe Weil provokes us to honestly and thoughtfully answer the question “What is schooling for?”  It is a question that many of us are asking, and I want to launch off of several of her key points as real action items that we can embrace in the very short term to make fundamental change in how our…

Cross posted from The Learning Pond:

How fast is the world of education changing?  How hard will it be to keep up with this pace?  How will we adjust, adopt, adapt and evolve in real time when our traditions are based on months and years of discussion, evaluation, assessment, training, and strategic implementation? 

Here is a shotgun of radical changes that I culled from media and the blogosphere over just this…