Listly by Marianna Ricketson
CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
We know that each student is unique, but what about each student’s brain? This new Students at the Center infographic draws on the research from Mind, Brain, and Education to depict the brain science behind student-centered approaches to learning.
Leading thinkers, researchers, and education practitioners discuss learning and human variability via video, audio, and the written word. Read more at Conversations in Multiple Media.
The term “design thinking” is often attached to maker spaces and STEM labs. However, design thinking is bigger than STEM. It begins with the premise of tapping into student curiosity and allowing them to create, test and re-create until they eventually ship what they made to a real audience (sometimes global but often local). Design thinking isn’t a subject or a topic or a class. It’s more of way of solving problems that encourages risk-taking and creativity.
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One of things that I have been really thinking about is not only embracing change, but educators creating it. Creating better ways for our kids and ourselves to learn. Too often change is thrust upon us, yet how often do we lead it? How often do we create change in education?