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  1. Jul 2015
    1. These authors argue that schooling needs to be fundamentally reconfigured to emphasize higher-order cognitive processes, such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, curiosity, and adaptability.

      ✔ Similar to the Wicked Problem group on Rethinking Teaching.

    1. (Phil Nast, National Education Association, accessed 13 April 2015.) An important aspect of promoting authentic learning is creating accompanying assessments for students when they perform real-world tasks to demonstrate subject mastery. This toolbox is a resource to help educators create activities, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning.

      Cite for SIG!

    2. 56 education and technology experts from 22 countries on six continents this year; their names and affiliations are listed at the end of this report.

      I'm interested to see how many of these people are or were teachers.

    3. Teachers do not often have the adequate support systems to transition their good ideas beyond their own classrooms

      We've discussed this quite a bit in class. Within "support systems" - time, money, willingness, etc.