Difference Making at the Heart of Learning: Students, Schools, and Communities Alive With Possibility

Tom Vander Ark

ISBN 10: 1071814850 / ISBN 13: 9781071814857

Published by SAGE Publications Inc, 2020

About this Item

Your students will change the world! Today?s learners know they face a complex future. They yearn to live in a world where people are working with purpose, leading with character and making a difference. Learning to identify problems and use smart tools to develop meaningful solutions will help them make a difference in their families, their communities and for society. They need your help. This inspirational, yet practical guide shows educators how to build on students? own talents and interests to develop their desire for a better world, entrepreneurial mindset and personal leadership skills. Features include: New learning priorities centered around making a differenceA framework based on the 25 most important issues of our timeExamples and case studies from a diverse range of projects, people, and places  Students learn more when they feel a sense of purpose. With adults like you to guide them, they?ll be ready to make a difference?and shape the world to come.

Seller Inventory # CIN1071814850G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Difference Making at the Heart of Learning: Students, Schools, and Communities Alive With Possibility
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1071814850
• ISBN 13: 9781071814857
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Your students will change the world!
Today's learners face a complex future, where multilayered technological and societal issues will require new ways of problem-solving. This inspirational yet practical guide helps educators, counselors, and youth-development leaders build on students' talents and interests to develop their desire for a better world, entrepreneurial mindset and personal leadership skills―so they can make a difference to their families, their communities, and society. Features include: 
-    New learning priorities centered around difference making
-    A framework based on the 25 most important issues of our time
-    Examples and case studies from a diverse range of projects, people, and places
 
 

About the Author

Tom Vander Ark is CEO of Getting Smart, a learning design firm that amplifies thought leadership campaigns, education initiatives, powerful learning experiences and forward-leaning strategies with schools, districts and impact-oriented partners. He is also a partner in Learn Capital, an education venture capital firm investing in edtech startups. Tom is a director for 4.0 Schools, Bloomboard, Charter Board Partners, Digital Learning Institute, eduInnovation and Imagination Foundation. Previously, Tom served as the first Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as a public school superintendent in Washington State.

Emily Liebtag is Vice President of Advocacy at Getting Smart. She believes every young person deserves a world-class education and partners with educators and education-focused organizations to try and help make that a reality. Emily usually is researching and reading about project-based learning, global education, teacher preparation and place-based education. Connect with Emily at @EmilyLiebtag.