by swayne | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog
Like most good conversations, it started over dinner. This past October, my colleague Megan Simmons and I were in Chios, Greece facilitating Action Collabs for the inaugural Green Ideas Project. One night at dinner I was sitting with an international array of...
by agodwin | Aug 19, 2012 | Blog
Unpacking emotions to nurture student success As my colleague Shenandoah Weiss outlined in her last post, Lessons for Learning, managing fear, cultivating trust, and encouraging creativity are all essential building blocks for productive, holistic learning. I...
by rrubio | Aug 16, 2012 | Blog
As my colleague Shen pointed out in her blog last week, a sense of community is critical for facilitating the learning process for both teachers and students. Unfortunately, community is not a word many teachers would use to describe their work; in fact, many...
by shenweiss | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
Big Ideas Fest is ISKME’s annual education convening, where in addition to experiencing design thinking, participants are also engaged in an exciting and holistic conversation about learning. We know that real learning is often a messy, arduous, nonlinear process, and...
by swayne | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
We are pleased to announce the upcoming two-day Action Collab™ Facilitator Training, September 19th and 20th in San Francisco. The Facilitator Training includes:first-hand experience of the Action Collab processin-depth introduction to the framework
by ClareMiddletonDetzner | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog
An exciting development in education is the integration of design thinking into teaching and learning. Design thinking, long employed by designers and engineers, is an approach to problem-solving that involves defining an issue, collecting research, generating ideas,...
