See You at TEDxAustin… on Us!
One of the reasons we launched this blog is to create a place where people share their thoughts, ideas, and interests related to transforming K–12 education in the United States. In that vein, we’re proud to be hosting the inaugural Official Simulcast of TEDxAustin on Saturday, February 11. TEDxAustin is proud to bring TED’s belief in ideas worth spreading to a city brimming with its own ideas worth sharing. A bustling hub for innovation, ideas take flight here — mingling, developing and leading the world forward. And we’re proud to be part of it.
Applications to attend the simulcast are no longer available, but we’re giving one lucky cyber-friend the chance to join us for the event as our guest. There are three ways you can win the badge.
- Comment here with an idea about how we can transform education or why you want to be part of the idea sharing (extra credit for sharing our blog on Facebook or Twitter),
- Go to our Facebook page and like us, then post a similar (or even the same) comment there, and
- Follow us on Twitter.
On February 8, we’ll announce the winner.
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My idea to transform education would be to create an online social network exclusively for teachers. It would allow teachers within the same region and that teach the same subject to share ideas, share lesson plans, and co-ordinate large scale class projects that connect students to others classes of students outside of their district.
The way to transform education is to shift the focus of reform towards the student. We need to understand what student mindsets and skills contribute to achievement and consequently what teacher mindsets and skills contribute to those correlating student mindsets and skills. With that knowledge we’ll be able to craft better professional development that reinforces teacher behavior that will actually positively affect students. I think technology has the potential to play a large role in tracking assessments of students that can inform teachers what is working and what is not working so that they have in-the-moment data to support strong instruction or challenge instruction that isn’t working. This will lead to teachers who stop relying on methods that have always been used and start relying on what the data tells them actually helps students learn. I’m passionate about basing reform on data-based student results, not lofty opinions or gut feelings.
David Thompson
Former high school math teacher & administrator
Transform education by positive reinforcement. and praise. Being part of idea sharing reinforcing those ideas learned -back into the community.
Jess,
Please send an email to blog@compasslearning.com! I have some good news.
Cheers!
Emily
Me and some friends recently started Halfsies, a new social initiative that offers a choice to restaurant-goers to provide a healthier meal portion, reduce food waste while at the same time supports the fight against world hunger. Our motto? Eat less. Give more. It’s a concept that we hope can be used by Austinites eventually expanding to other cities to help solve one problem by alleviating another. As part of the Halfsies initiative, we’d love to see how this idea and change can start being taught in schools and used in cafeterias to instill this change mentality at a much earlier age.
TEDx provides a wonderful collection of presentations about valuable and interesting topics. I hope that the CL-hosted program will include both presentations that will update teachers but also that will appeal to students as well. Individual learning is going to be a cornerstone of education in the future, and having available a selection of TEDx presentations for personal learning is going to be key, I believe. The more teachers make their students aware of what TEDx has to offer, the more excited students can become about their own learning — because they will be able to follow their personal interests.