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I recently saw @Doug_Lemov present on Thinking Ratio & Participation Ratio. Was a bit of a game changer for me.
Afterwards I interviewed him about his thoughts on it. You can read it here (as well 2 recent cog sci studies that support it): https://t.co/ulXnxO442Z
History and ELA teachers this one is for you! Have you tried the A Moment in Time strategy with your students?!?
It was one of my favs especially when I taught middle school.
There's lots of guidance for leaders on "listening with empathy". This research-based article says much of it (based on the idea of "walking in others shoes") is problematic. "Walking in shoes" gives us a clear picture of how we would feel if we were the other person but not how they actually feel. Researchers call this "perspective-taking". Instead, we should stop treating empathy as a solo sport & engage in "perspective-getting" - empathising collaboratively. Every conversation is a joint project, done best when we make space to learn from one another: https://t.co/1ozSZiB167. By @zakijam
I'm reading "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder" by Bob Sutton (@work_matters) & Huggy Rao. "Friction" means the forces that make it harder, slower or more complicated to get things done in organisations. They describe how we can be "friction fixers", making it less likely that we squander the energy, damage the health & throttle the creativity and productivity of our people. The talented @tnvora has summarised the book in a blog and sketchnote: https://t.co/cS3iNliy9D
Three strategies to turn a workplace conflict into a constructive negotiation:
1) Go to the balcony: step away so that you can see the bigger picture
2) Build the Bridge: seek to understanding the other’s standpoint to uncover their real need
3) Engage the third side: get perspective from others who are part of the larger context in which the conflict is happening:
https://t.co/1o2zJEKBKV Blog & sketchnote by @tnvora, based on wisdom from @WilliamUryGTY
It is time for #EdtechMadness24! Thanks @KyleNiemis for running it in the past & trusting us with it this year! Let us start with a twist! Phase 1 is getting in your nominations for the 4 remaining spots.
Who was left out? Nominate https://t.co/XsPcymwgcs or in the comments.
Some of the best resources about learning on social media come from @Impactwales. They focus on school educators but the principles are equally applicable for the kind of deep learning we need to enable change in organisations & systems. If we want learning for change, we have to create the time & space for people to:
- explore the concept
- identify the distinctiveness of the new idea
- link it to pre-existing knowledge
- try it out practically
- keep reworking it
- personalise it to fit with what they do already
The more connections we can make, the better our learning.
The most comprehensive set of facilitation techniques is available free to view on the @SessionLab library. There are 1,200 different techniques on there. You can sort/filter them by type (idea generation, issue analysis, issue resolution etc), by how many people & by duration. I get lots of ideas from this treasure trove: https://t.co/ZgyMtDLcEt
I often get asked for ideas on group facilitation techniques & approaches. So today & tomorrow, I'm going to post some of my favourite sources. Today is the Hyper Island toolbox; a "resource kit you can use to apply creative collaboration and unleash potential in your team or organisation". The techniques are well explained & easy to use. They can be sorted by the length of time you have available & group size: https://t.co/CY5M1VhXjF. By @hyperisland
An interesting read about learning being a complex thing needing a nuanced approach - there’s no ‘one right way’
“Schooling does not happen to brains separate from…the full experience of being human”
There is No Such Thing As “The Science of Learning” https://t.co/VC15VKZQL6
Have you downloaded these free 80s + 90s classics from the EMC archive yet? Fascinating insights into the past; lots of food for thought for the present
https://t.co/fnPnPbAj84
They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression.
That's kind of beautiful.