The question is, is it right for a child to trigger – as the title of Richard’s book puts it – “head-to-toe euphoria” in adults?
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- The coaching model they devised is devoid of judgement. Coaches — those with an interest in coaching and a senior or middle leadership role — try to position themselves as thought partners for the tea …
- Our research and analysis challenges the idea that these professionals will be spared. We expect that within decades the traditional professions will be dismantled, leaving most, but not all, professi …
- "In the last two centuries, we’ve seen two significant shifts in the global labor market," says Graeme Codrington, futurist at TomorrowToday Global. "First we stripped the agricultural sector of worke …
- In the professional world, our work must integrate disciplines – small business owners, nonprofit leaders, and scientists must combine skills in organization, finance, writing, and so much more. Schoo …
- “We think that’s exciting because it shows after this training, something changed, Dickerson says. “The brain isn’t quite the same.” She thinks people might be achieving a state of mind that’s more co …
- The sad truth is that schools were never designed to produce creativity. Not many people are aware of it, but the education systems in the US and many other countries are based on the 19th-century Pru …
- There is nothing more invigorating to the human spirit than working towards a common goal with like-minded friends who are equally dogged and passionate. It doesn’t just give us meaning and fulfillmen …
- And rather than closing people off from the real world, Spectacles are designed to help them participate in it. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told the Journal that recording video or taking pictures with a ph …
- The challenge now, says Deming, is for educators to complement their teaching of technical skills like mathematics and computer science, with a focus on making sure the workers of the future have the …
- Product management skills are coveted, argues Ken Norton, a former Google product manager and partner at GV, Google’s venture arm, because “in the long run great product management usually makes the d …
- That suggests we may need to rethink our efforts to encourage or enforce civility online. “Our results also do not support claims that prohibiting online anonymity will make the online world a better …
- One of the things that each and every Olympian has in common, regardless of what country they are from, is that they all have a coach. Some of these athletes have worked for years for a race that may …
- A growing body of research is singling out two kinds of PD with the potential to check all these boxes and impact student achievement: coaching and collaboration. As a result, school systems and build …
- But what about a semester-long group project where one student overcame her natural tendency to procrastinate, excelled in the design and construction of Odysseus’s ship out of cardboard, but then pla …
- Flow is technically defined as an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and we perform our best.
- "Teachers who find their kids' ideas fascinating are just better teachers than teachers who find the subject matter fascinating," he says.
- Linguists have noted that the kind of language that we employ in texts and instant messages is very similar to spoken speech; in this way, it bears resemblance to the early days of writing, when manus …
- "So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilisation, children using smartphones to learn about art or the wilful ignorance of adults who are too quick to make assumptions?"
- "Basically we're trying to explain student success educationally or in the labor market with skills not directly measured by standardized tests," says Martin West, at the Harvard Graduate School of Ed …
