The GOODEST: Our Favorite Things to Learn and Do This Past Week
“We’ve been doing this [testing the gardens] for eight months, and it still blows my mind when I see the first one sprouting—out of rock. It’s just crazy. I get so excited about it, but imagine a little kid seeing that.” With a bit of the wonder that dwells in any farmer, Arora adds, “They’re never going to forget that for the rest of their lives.”
Most adults are simply not doing enough, except for perhaps Charlie Kouns and David Loitz—the visionaries atImagining Learning. Around the United States, Kouns, Loitz, and their team have been hosting listening sessions, inviting young people to share their revelations and insights on education.
"We have been told by students that this was often the first they had been asked to share their own views on
Share Strategies: How to Identify Each Child's Potential (#PSP2012)
GOOD.is - 9 hours ago
- Watch Richard Gerver's presentation from #PSP2012 - Consider strategies to identify each child's potential, at school and at home - Share your reflections, suggestions, and questions at http://cfee.me/PSPvidRG
Richard Gerver on "Identifying Each Child's Potential" (#PSP2012)
GOOD.is - 9 hours ago
Richard Gerver (Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today) opens the day among 9 ed leaders engaging teachers and parents from 125 schools and districts -- sharing about the importance of collaboration between parents and teachers, both public and private; acknowledging his own challenges as a young learner; sharing about the teachers who make a difference; and reminding us what happens when we identify and nurture each child's potential. For more info: http://cfee.me/PSP2012
Lifelong Learning Startup Making a Change in Education
GOOD.is - 20 hours ago
I am the founder of the Forward Thinking Platform -a winning idea at Startup Weekend. We're building a sustainable continuous learning platform where people will have access to key information & resources directly from the world's brightest minds and experts. We need your vote in order to be selected during Global Startup Battle. You can vote every day until the 27th of November at bit.ly/voteforwardthinking. Please help us make a change!
Bridging the Book Gap: Because Income Shouldn't Determine Access
GOOD.is - 1 day ago
*[image: books.library] In our Transforming Schools Together series, teachers affiliated with the Center for Teaching Quality invite us to re-imagine the very concept of school, and suggest small actions we can take to improve existing schools.* Melinda lives in poverty. Her mom can't read or write. At the beginning of second grade, she owned one book and read at a kindergarten level. Yet Melinda made extraordinary progress during the two years she was in my class. By the end of third grade, she had advanced to a fourth grade reading level. She laughed more, asked great question... more »
Children prefer cardboard boxes as toys over brand-name toys
GOOD.is - 2 days ago
The best toys can come in the form of cardboard boxes. Children create more imagination
Study: The Human Brain Can Solve Maths Problems Subconsciously
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Modern psychology has always operated under the assumption that a person must be conscious to solve mathematical problems or understand sentences they're reading. However, a new study conducted at the Hebrew University could change that assumption completely.
Books by Native Writers Key to Building Accurate Knowledge About American Indians
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
On Thanksgiving, families across the country will be gathering 'round their tables to celebrate. In elementary school some of you may have dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians to reenact the "First Thanksgiving." The thing is, those reenactments—and a lot of what Americans "know" about American Indians—are inaccurate. A lot of American Indian people have a critical view of those reenactments and the Thanksgiving holiday itself. Did you know that some Native people in the U.S. consider Thanksgiving a Day of Mourning? Or that some call it "Thanks*taking*" instead of Thanks* giving*? ... more »
Purchase a Used Car, Refrigerator, or Shirt at MoMA's 'Meta-Monumental Garage Sale'
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Artist Martha Rosler, known for her "personal made political" pieces, is hosting a garage sale at MoMA from noon to 5 p.m. daily, except Tuesdays and Thanksgiving Day. Part performance, part interactive, Rosler says she will be haggling with customers. MoMA's chief curator Sabine Breitwieser adds: “Art is, after all, a kind of pinnacle of the idea of the value of objects.” Attend the "show" for $25, but be prepared to come with extra cash. Rosler just lost a crown, so visit her show!
5 Reasons to Gamify Your Classroom
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Dreaming of a classroom where students are engaged 100% of the time? Where students love to learn and turn in their work on time and with quality? If that's what you seek, then you need to gamify your classroom. Read the 5 reasons why you should!
Gamifying School
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Make learning gamified and see student engagement in school increase dramatically!
What Happens When a High School Principal Does a Reddit AMA?
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
What would you ask a 14-year principal of a 600-student high school in the principal in the Midwest? A brave administrator who says he loves his job, students, and staff took to Reddit and invited users to "ask away." One of the most popular questions: "What do you actually do for most of the day?"
The Need for Girls' Education in Afghanistan
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Shabana Basij-Rasikh was five-years-old when the Taliban came to power and for the next six years she dressed as a boy to attend a secret school. She has since co-founded the only boarding school in Afghanistan and works towards increasing girls education in the country.
UPDATED: NASA and Change the Equation Connect Students to STEM
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
On Tuesday NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the home of Mars Rover Curiosity, and Change the Equation hosted a live, interactive webcast focused on connecting students to STEM careers and helping them explore the STEM challenges they face. The webcast featured actress and singer Keke Palmer as the webcast's "Mission Control Host," Dr. Linda P. Rosen, the CEO of Change the Equation, Bobak Ferdowsi, the flight director, of the Mars Rover Curiosity, and students from the Engineering and Environmental Science Academy at John Muir High School in Pasadena, California. Viewers visited ...more »
How Macroeconomics Ties to Drunk Driving
GOOD.is - 3 days ago
Students use objectives in a macro class to research and advocate for a local nonprofit that spreads awareness of effects of drunk driving.
To Hell With Sustainability
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Spend an afternoon with No Impact Man, Colin Beavan. Colin is an author, filmmaker and one of the world’s best known spokespeople on environmental issues, consumerism and human quality of life. Named one of MSN's "Ten Most Influential Men," Colin will discuss how the limited objectives of standard sustainability programs must be expanded in order to save the planet, improve human quality of life, and make “sustainable” business attractive to customers. December 5, 12:00 - 1:30pm New York, NY
The necessary evolution of business education
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Business education is in need of evolution and as business leaders it is our duty to engage with Deans of B schools to continue to help reshape its curriculums. As the purpose of business shifts, notably in its responsibility towards the largest collective, liberal arts subjects will need to worked into the core of it. The classroom and the proximity of others to collaborate remains a cornerstone of traditional education, it is highly relevant. The subjects however need redefinition.
Teachers Are Awesome: Educator Uses Game Show Winnings to Take Students to the Opera
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Need more proof that teachers are pretty awesome? Back in September Deborah Bishop, a Spanish teacher at West Harrison High School in Harrison County, Mississippi, was a contestant on the trivia game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." The lucky teacher walked away $23,500 richer and decided to spend some of her extra loot on her students. Indeed, Bishop spent $3,000 treating 20 students from the Spanish Honor Society to an all-expense paid trip to New Orleans, a fancy restaurant dinner, and a performance of the classic opera, *The Barber of Seville*. Bishop says she did it "bec... more »
Young Innovators Thrive When Nurtured
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
A 15-year-old built an FM radio station out of scrap parts for his small town in Sierra Leone. This short documentary tells his story to show that hurting communities can help themselves when they feel empowered.
NASA's Hosting a Webcast to Help Students Find Their Future in STEM
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
[image: mars.rover] NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity caught the nation's attention this year and got a new generation of students excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. Now on Tuesday, November 20th, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the home of Curiosity, will be the site of a webcast designed to help students connect their passions to STEM careers. The 35-minute interactive webcast, which is co-hosted by Change the Equation, a national coalition of STEM-focused companies, will showcase STEM careers, turn a spotlight on a variety of STEM professionals, and help stud... more »
Quest Schools: How a Game-like Learning Model Makes Them Unique
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
There are 3 main things that make Quest Schools different: (1) the everyday collaboration between game designers, teachers, and curriculum developers; (2) an assessment model that measures 21st century skills like empathy and collaboration in addition to proficiency with state standards, and (3) a commitment to formative research, which enables constant improvement and iteration on the model.
Diamond Education 101
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Being educated in basic diamond knowledge is important, especially for consumers who are planning to buy one in the near future. When you are shopping, it is important to know what you are looking for in something and this new infographic on diamond education by Brilliance highlights the things you should be paying attention to when diamond shopping in an easy to understand visual presentation of the things to look for when shopping for diamonds.
To Create Original Work, Why Not Look to an Original Medium?
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Lumi is a brand new company that has created a brand new medium for artists, printers, and hobbyists alike. Their one-of-a-kind chemical formula creates color prints that expose in the sun in only minutes. It cuts out the middle man (which in this case, is the screen.) Anyone who has screen printed before knows how long and expensive the process can be. With Lumi negatives are put straight on the object and prints expose in minutes. Oh, the best part? It's inexpensive.
Kapitall Thanksgiving Portfolio
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
A guide to investing in Thanksgiving retail and e-commerce trends through the lens of Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Michael Faraday - Pioneer of Electricity
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
One of the most influential scientists of all time, Michael Faraday was a British physicist and chemist whose combined expertise led to the development of many of today’s common technologies. He was a great builder of instruments and a daring experimenter. He had no formal education, but that did not stop him from seeing things differently. Through his discoveries, he revolutionized our understanding of Electricity, Magnetism and a whole lot more.
Charters Target Middle-Class Brooklyn
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Originally launched to offer more choice to low-income parents in poorly served neighborhoods, charter schools are increasingly targeting more affluent students in areas that have lots of school options.
No More Starving Artists! Create Art, Earn a Good Living.
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
The most important gift any artist needs... an education in business start-up, arts marketing, gallery relationships and time management. The Arts Business Institute provide step by step mentoring, guidance, workshops and on the job training experiences so that artists can build a business that is more than local... a business selling nationwide. Give a scholarship, sponsor a workshop or bring your community together as a partner in building a local creative community.
The Rise of Democratic Schools and 'Solutionaries': Why Adults Need to Get Out of the Way
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
[image: teen.brick.wall] Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, "silenced the world for six minutes" with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the next generation. "At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world," she said. "You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us... more »
TEDxSF - 7 Billion Well - Priyanka Jain
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Priyanka is the founder and President of iCAREweCARE, a student-run non-profit that leverages the power of social media for social good. iCAREweCARE helps high school and college students connect with friends who CARE about the same causes, provides them with meaningful opportunities in their local community, and makes social change a social effort. She serves as a Youth Champion for the United Nation's Foundation Girl Up campaign to inspire other young girls to get involved in their communities
Free Literacy App for Women Launches in Afghanistan
GOOD.is - 4 days ago
Smartphone software designed to increase literacy among Afghan women is being distributed to students for free in an effort to reach the government's goal of 48 percent literacy among those over 15 by 2015. "I could not go to school because the Taliban took control of Kabul city," said 18-year-old Muzhgan Nazari. Although her father wouldn't let her go to school, Nazari has convinced him to allow her to attend a literacy training center for women where the phones are being given out.
We Can Become Successful & Be Role Models
GOOD.is - 5 days ago
I am creating a motivational manual for students in middle school and high school. The manual is 80-percent complete. I need $7,500 to have it professionally edit, layout and go to print. If you are interested in supporting, please contact me or tell me how I can get funding. Portion of the proceeds from the manual will subsidize my Aikido after-school program in Washington, DC (see my website).
A City Education: A Post-Sandy Day of Service in Staten Island
GOOD.is - 5 days ago
*[image: statenisland] In our A City Education series, City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the opportunity gap and ending the dropout crisis.* "Why I serve" statements are an important aspect of City Year culture. At the beginning of the school year, corps members are asked to provide statements explaining why we choose to dedicate a year of service in schools. My teammates and I all come from different backgrounds, and we all have different goals for our future. But what binds us together is our desire to he... more »
Saving Public Education: Quality Education for All
GOOD.is - 6 days ago
From a current student and future teacher's perspective on why she supports traditional public schools over charter schools.
Going Digital to Green the College Classroom
GOOD.is - 6 days ago
[image: greentech] When it comes to technology and climate, we’ve seen radical changes over the past few years. We live in an age where there is a gadget for seemingly every task or hobby and natural disasters happen more frequently than they used to. So when a group of progressive-minded academics gathered at the University of Southern California in October to share best practices on creating a simultaneously digital and green classroom, it seemed like perfect timing. In their workshop, "Creating Online Courses Using Apple Mobile Technologies* ,*" Bill Celis, a professor at USC’s ... more »
Recruiting 100K New Teachers? Great... But Will They Stay?
GOOD.is - 6 days ago
President Obama hopes to recruit 100,000 math and science teachers to America's classrooms. Great move--we need a well-prepared 21st-century workforce, and qualified math and science teachers can help. But here's the thing: nearly half of new teachers leave the workforce within five years (a percentage that's been on the rise since the 1980s). And by the way, high-poverty schools (and students) get hit hardest. So how do we fix this? Read and comment on what teacher Jose Vilson suggests.
The Road to WWIII
GOOD.is - 1 week ago
Watch this video right now. We must NOT allow WWIII. Pass it around to everybody,...EVERYBODY!
This is what Wedu- supporting students & enabling change.
GOOD.is - 1 week ago
Wedu empowers emerging leaders from the poorest corners of the world by providing financial and, more importantly, non-financial support to access quality higher education, to gain work, life experience and the tools to enable them to become masters of development in their home communities. This infographic describes what we do and why it is so important.
Tell President Obama to replace Arne Duncan with Linda Darling-Hammond.
GOOD.is - 1 week ago
Sign your name to the petition.
KRS-One Puts a Hip Hop Spin on Disaster Preparedness Education
GOOD.is - 1 week ago
Leave it to hip hop legend KRS-One to bring some creative energy to a topic that surely needs it: disaster preparedness. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, parts of New York City—the birthplace of hip hop—have been left in shambles. But, Sandy won't be the last disaster, so what better way to educate youth and hip hop aficiandos about what actually goes into a disaster kit? Seriously, who else other than KRS could rhyme about how many drops of bleach will purify water?