Can you afford 30 minutes every few weeks to chat with someone from another country on subjects of mutual interest? Can you NOT afford to take the time? Can you say your school has a "global" focus if you collectively don't? After a fast and full day at #fuse14 yesterday, teacher/innovator/leader Meghan Cureton from Mount [...]
Am writing this blog post is in real time. In the 101 Track of #fuse14, the coaches are leading what they call a "flash lab" a quick introduction experience that compresses the DT process into very short segments. Attendees have partnered with people they never met before five minutes ago. The group was handed the [...]
What allows people to bare their closest held dreams and their personal pain in front of a group of 200 strangers? I think it is an overwhelming passion to make the world a better place, and that is what we heard in the brief MoVe talks to kick off #fuse14. (Won't try to make hyperlinks [...]
CORRECTION: Tonight's live #dtk12chat from #fuse14 will go live at 6:45 PM ET; the chat starts at 7 PM ET. Here is the link to the live video portion of the chat.
Co-hosts of #fuse14, Mt. Vernon Institute For Innovation (@MVIFI) have created a remarkable new playbook for design thinking and design thinkers. I just had a few minutes this early AM to thumb through it. I know a LOT of folks contributed to it but it has the look and feel of a lot of Mary [...]
Is the term "design thinking" completely foreign to you? Sort of heard about it and sort of know what it is? Want to get your toes wet? In addition to following along here and on the Twitter feed for #fuse14 in the next few days, you might want to spend something less than an hour [...]
There is a great exchange going on this morning on the #fuse14 Twitter feed about the role of "new" educational tools like maker-spaces, design studios, and design thinking. Lisa Goochee, a 4th grade teacher at an international school in Brazil kicked it off by asking if the " 'making' fervor is missing the forest for [...]
Do you wish your professional development budget was larger? Great interactions, learning, and personal growth do not have to always include getting on an airplane. Here is another simple, great chance to expand your comfort and knowledge base with both design thinking and online collegial connections: There are more than 200 weekly Twitter chats hosted [...]
Are you a Twitter novice? Don't have a Twitter account? Want to but kind of weirded out or uncertain about it? OK; now is the time to give it a try, because you can connect, with zero pain, to a whole bunch of other educators who, just like you, a few months or years ago [...]
As an observer-reporter-connector at large for #FUSE14 this coming week, I will try to flesh out some of the larger meanings and lessons, particularly for those who are not able to attend in person. A foundational skill of great thinking is asking questions, especially the kind of questions that expand the framework of possible outcomes. As [...]