End Note 222: Where do we go from here? 4 skills starting with C

222. 4 Cs: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. These 21st century skills are highlighted in chapter 4 of Wojcicki and Izumi’s Moonshots in Education.  (from Leveraged Learning) 

What can we do?   Danny Iyo has pointed the way with his footnotes in his book Leveraged Learning.

Clicks can raise awareness with
-- increased views
-- increased SUBSCRIBEs (on Youtube)
-- sharing these links with friends
-- leave COMMENTS
-- click on LIKE
-- post these links on BLOGS and in Facebook posts.

These small actions can raise awareness. 

1.  Give 10 questions to parents
PARENTS:  ask these questions.
tinyurl.com/10ExpectationsSpanish
VIDEO of the 10 questions  TINYURL.com/LeavingtoLearnvideo
LeavingtoLearn.org  website

2.  Get tips from Roger Schank

FUTURE OF EDUCATION with Roger Schank
Schank's books    REVIEW of Teaching Minds
SUMMARY OF "Tell me a story" by Roger Schank

Overall, Teaching Minds is a thought-provoking read, especially for those of us who feel the current state of education leaves something to be desired. 


3.  Spread the word about the "list of skills" and a FOCUS ON SKILLS
tinyurl.com/afocusonskills  list   tinyurl.com/alistofskills

Tony Wagner 

4.  " School should not hurt "   the presentation by Scott Looney
PDF  TINYURL.com/NoGradesScott
VIDEO  TINYURL.com/schoolshouldnothurtvideo
VIDEO about a new transcript  TINYURL.com/NoGradesVideo
BOSTON GLOBE article about the "no grades"  transcript  TINYURL.com/nogradesBoston

5.  a video from Mirasee to discuss the value of a college education

6.  List of books that will promote the transformation of education that Leverage Learning descirbes

List of books video 
Dennis Littky   The Big Picture  (VIDEO SUMMARY)
Free chapter 1
Free chapter 4
Radio interview with Dennis Littky
Tour of Littky's school

Littky at TEDx

Eliot Levine's book   BOOK SUMMARY by VIDEO
(a teacher at Big Picture Learning school who taught "one kid at a time."   The school focuses on the use of personal learning plans and internships)

Magnificent Mind by Daniel Amen (2 minute Book summary on video)

Daniel Amen and how to "talk back to automatic negative thoughts"

MAKE A FREE WEBSITE (and ask students to display their best work in a DIGITAL Portfolio)
FREE EBOOK to download
See free websites at work in HIGH TECH HIGH school
Ben Staley's portfolio
Abel Thon's portfolio



LEARN MORE ABOUT Leveraged Learing HERE



THIS IS A FAN BLOG.   You are invited to contribute comments and suggestions about what additional videos, articles and websites will support the findings of Leveraged Learning and the transformation of learning that the book describes.   Send suggestions for blogposts to ManyPosters@gmail.com and I'll add you as a contributing author.  or just add a comment.

End note 17: the end of the lecture

In the article that is linked to End note 17, Erik Mazur makes this observation:


“This is a really important article—the impression I get is that it’s almost unethical to be lecturing if you have this data,” says Eric Mazur, a physicist at Harvard University who has campaigned against stale lecturing techniques for 27 years and was not involved in the work. “It’s good to see such a cohesive picture emerge from their meta-analysis—an abundance of proof that lecturing is outmoded, outdated, and inefficient.” 



You can learn more about Mazur's techniques at

https://blog.peerinstruction.net/category/clicker-questions/







THIS IS A FAN BLOG.   You are invited to contribute comments and suggestions about what additional videos, articles and websites will support the findings of Leveraged Learning and the transformation of learning that the book describes.   Send suggestions for blogposts to ManyPosters@gmail.com and I'll add you as a contributing author.  or just add a comment.