The Good Project is a large scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work – work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners – and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good work in our society.
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May 24, 2013 at 2:20 PM Researchers have found that complex behavior to situations involving morals/ethics develops in infancy.
Young morals: can infants tell right from wrong?
theconversation.com
Psychologists from Yale and the University of British Columbia think they have found a way to show that infants in their first year of life possess the psychological building blocks of a moral sense…
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May 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM The 2014 Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values will be held from February 6-8, 2014, with the theme "Promoting an Ethic of Care: Student Well-Being as a Priority for Higher Education." For more information, please see below:
2014 Dalton Institute / Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values / FSU - Jon C. Dalton...
studentvalues.fsu.edu
Florida State University is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research
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What is your favorite book - across any genre, fiction or non-fiction - that features an aspect of good work, and along with it, what challenges come? An example from fiction is the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird", for the will of Atticus Finch to do what he believed was right in the face of prejudice.
Connie Weber Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver would be one of mine. Fiction. Becoming a citizen scientist, caring about monarchs, seeing the big picture of climate change.
May 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM
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May 16, 2013 at 7:51 PM Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy, came to speak at HGSE last week, and we found his endeavors to be great examples of Good Work! For more, please check out the story here:
Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy, Exemplifies Good Work in Society | The Good Project
On May 8th, 2013, HGSE hosted the last Askwith Forum of the 2012-2013 academic year, welcoming Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy. Since 2006, Khan’s YouTube channel-turned-multipurpose educational enterprise has served 85 million students.
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May 15, 2013 at 3:34 PM Opportunity to learn more about The Good Play Project and Common Sense Media's Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA.
CUE and Common Sense Media Announce The Digital Classroom: Preparing Students for Success Learning T
CUE and Common Sense Media are celebrating Digital Citizenship Month in May by bringing educators “The Digital Classroom: Preparing Students for Success” Learning Tour.
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May 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM Today at Harvard, Joe Badaracco of Harvard Business School will be giving a talk on "The Hard Challenges of Moral Leadership". For more details, please see the link below.
Coalition for Character/CMEI event: Joe Badaracco: The Hard Challenges of Moral Leadership
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Speaker: Joe Badaracco from the Harvard Business School Topic: The Hard Challenges of Moral Leadership Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Time: 4:00pm Location: HGS…
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May 14, 2013 at 7:34 PM Quandary is an online game that teaches ethical decision-making and has been mapped for areas of Common Core Standards which it can help fulfill! See the link to the game's site below to learn more.
Quandary
Home Panel 1Main ImageTitle ImagePlayers aged 8-14 shape the future of a new society while learning how to recognize ethical issues and deal with challenging situations in their own lives.Players lead a new human colony on a distant planet. They must make difficult decisions in which there are no cl...
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May 10, 2013 at 1:42 PM A recent Reader's Digest poll on trust in the US led to Reader's Digest determining what professions were most represented by individuals who were cited to have earned the public's confidence. The top five professions represented were:
1) Doctors
2) Teachers/Educators
3) Movie Stars
4) Philanthropists
5) Spiritual Leaders
Thoughts on these results?
Infographic: The Most Trusted Professions in America | Reader's Digest
We averaged the rankings of the individuals tested in each category of our trust poll to determine which professions Americans place their confidence. For more, visit rd.com/trust.
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May 9, 2013 at 7:04 PM Read the latest blog in our series of GoodWork conference reflections, from Mary Katherine Duncan!
Planting the Seeds of Power and Purpose: A GoodWork™-inspired Introduction to Higher Education for F
For several months, my colleague (Dr. Jennifer Johnson) and I have been developing a GoodWork™-inspired Summer Reading Assignment and series of Freshman Orientation workshops for first-year (often, first generation) undergraduate students.
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"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." - John Steinbeck
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
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Connie Weber Lynn, you and all the Good Project folks are amazing. Change the world!
May 10, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Lynn Barendsen Connie, your energy and enthusiasm are equally impressive - thanks for all you do.
May 10, 2013 at 12:23 PM
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May 7, 2013 at 1:30 PM On Wednesday May 8th, Sal Khan, the Founder and Executive Director of Khan Academy, will be speaking at an Askwith Forum to be held in the Radcliffe Gym at 11am. For more details, please see the link:
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Gwyn Evelyn
Hi I found a reference to the work of The Good Project in 'Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture : Media Education for the 21st Century' Jenkins et al, that I am trying to chase up. It is about youth finding format and design more important than content in determining the credibility of web sites. It is only referenced as a personal interview with H. Gardner in 2006. Is this work now published anywhere....? I couldn't find anything like it on the website. It is for a student paper I am writing. Any help would be great!
Gwyn Evelyn Thank you!
May 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM
YaYcool Web Thank you too:)
May 20, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Julia Richmond
Can anyone PLEASE help me with references or links to information about Study Strategies / methods for the Multiple Intelligence Theory. I am finding loads on VAK / VARK but hardly anything for MI?
Lynn Barendsen I would have a look at http://howardgardner.com/multiple-intelligences/
May 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM
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May 6, 2013 at 1:10 PM Parents attempt to navigate social media in an effort to protect their children, raising the question, how much is too much?
Cyber Parents, Accessing Perhaps, TMI
Parents, in an attempt to keep their children safe, access social media, but at the end of the day, is it really too much information?
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May 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM “A large part of education is peer interaction,” said Chomsky. “My son went to Harvard and said he learned more from fellow students than from classes.”
Check out today's Harvard Gazette piece on the recent Askwith Forum on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
“Subversive education”: Harvard Gazette piece on recent Askwith Forum featuring Howard Gardner, Noam
The Harvard Gazette has written a story on the recent Askwith Forum commemorating the 45th anniversary of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, featuring Howard Gardner, Noam Chomsky, and Bruno della Chiesa
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May 2, 2013 at 1:34 PM The dynamic philosopher and speaker Esa Saarinen will be hosting a two-and-a-half day Elevation Seminar on fostering one's potential and living the best life for oneself. The event will be held from June 13-15, 2013 at the Aalto University Design Factory in Finland. Please see the link for more details!
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May 1, 2013 at 2:37 PM Last Askwith Forum of the year celebrating the 45th anniversary of Pablo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" If you can't make it to the event-watch live! HGSE will be streaming the event starting at 5:30 pm today.
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Askwith Forum: Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Harvard Graduate School of Education
On Wednesday, May 1, the Askwith Forum commemorates the 45th anniversary of the publication of Paolo Friere’s “Pedagogy and the Oppressed” with a discussion about the book’s impact and relevance to education today.
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May 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM Check out Harvard junior Sarah Providence's piece on mentoring. How has mentoring - whether acting as the mentor or mentee - impacted you?
Discovering the path to Harvard
news.harvard.edu
“In my first semester at Harvard, I worked with several other students to create a chapter of the national DREAM Program here. It was my first foray into working with youth, and I was excited to give Cambridge kids a taste of the campus that was so close to their homes,” says Harvard student Sara Pr...
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April 30, 2013 at 3:31 PM Check out the latest Harvard EdCast featuring Howard Gardner, and please let us know what you think about it in the comments!
Harvard EdCast: Gardner’s Greatest Hits | Harvard Graduate School of Education
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. During the past two decades, he has been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for…
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April 29, 2013 at 3:13 PM The Good Project shared Harvard Graduate School of Education's photo.
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What a way to end this year's Askwith Forum series!
Noam Chomsky and Howard Gardner talking with Bruno della Chiesa about Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Want to win VIP seating for this Wednesday's Askwith Forum? "Like" or post a comment below to be entered into our ticket lottery for reserved seats at this popular "series finale."
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April 29, 2013 at 5:35 PM
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April 26, 2013 at 8:54 PM Check out Amy Maturin's reflection on the GoodWork conference!
Conference Reflections from a Classroom Teacher: Three Human Phenomena and the Three E’s of Good Wo
Recently, I attended the first GoodWork conference at Noble and Greenbough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Armed with and ready to present the elementary toolkit that I had been developing with my mother, Jo Hoffman, and Good Team members Margot Locker, Wendy Fishman, and Lynn Barendsen, I arrived…
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April 26, 2013 at 2:06 PM UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center wants to know: does your organization foster compassion or callousness? Take the quiz below (results will be reported in late May):
Compassionate Organizations Quiz
greatergood.berkeley.edu
Does your organization foster compassion or callousness? While we often think about compassion as an individual quality, the organizations where we spend our time—such as workplaces, schools, places of worship, and community centers—can actually impact whether and how we respond to someone in distre...
Connie Weber Ok, but how would it be part of the hiring practice? Can you think of a good interview question that addresses compassion?
April 29, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Paromita De That is a good question. Perhaps providing an example of a scenario where compassion might be needed, and asking candidates to describe how they would respond to the situation could provide insight on the candidate's sense of compassion. I can imagine though that there are some fields in which questions on compassion are expected, and other fields in which questions on compassion might catch individuals off guard! What other questions on compassion could interviewers ask?
April 29, 2013 at 1:40 PM
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April 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM Can the classroom environment promote excellence and engagement in learning?
The small changes in classroom environment that can improve learning
Improving learning environments does not need to be expensive, says Professor Peter Barrett
Tanya Madrid-Campbell Based on my own experience, yes!
April 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Connie Weber Environment is SO important. When I visit a classroom, I always notice lighting, air quality, use of space... I think students are especially sensitive to the environment. How the environment feels dramatically affects students' comfort and ease in learning.
April 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Paromita De I believe that is true! Has anyone made specific changes in classroom set-up and found that it enhanced learning? When I worked as an AVID tutor in a middle school classroom, we found that pushing desks together for tutorial groups versus keeping them separate during group-work helped students to stay focused, for example.
May 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM
Cintia Costa Teaching Digital Natives, by Marc Prensky. I have been changing the way I work as a teacher since I started reading it some time ago. :-) Because of that I believe my students are benefiting much more by learning to learn how to learn.
May 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM