November 13, 2023 [Second in a series: Beyond PBL; go to Part 1] In case you missed it, fungi are pretty smart. Research reveals fungi, like mushrooms, as being closer
January 13, 2023 Some years ago, the education world grabbed hold of this idea of 21st century skills. Experts and leaders identified and agreed on four “essential skills” necessary to
January 12, 2023 Traditionally, the visual arts are a bastion of the “old, white guy club”. When looking at the visual arts Canon and the type of art generally taught
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan is the Director of the Assessment Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. She specializes in research on assessment, recognition, micro-credentialing and warranting of hard-to-assess capabilities
As I wrote in Learner-Centered Leadership, the post-industrial education system will require post-industrial measures of success. We can no longer rely on letter grades and seat time as proxies of
There is something insidious about pushing schools to change in order to prepare students for new jobs that do not yet exist, for problem-solving to address threats to productivity, or
A perhaps-underappreciated aspect of Mehta and Fine’s excellent 2018 book, In Search of Deeper Learning, is its thoughtful attention to double-loop learning. Borrowing from the work of Chris Argyris, Mehta
Ask a recent graduate of a school what they are good at when they leave, and how they know? They will likely respond that they were good at this subject