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The 7 Habits of Successful Academic-Innovation Leaders

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We practice mental models grounded in a pragmatic view of change. We seed ideas and help bring them to life, but never without an eye toward all that’s needed to take vision to execution. In everything we do, we take time to consider needs and requirements. We identify dependencies and assumptions.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

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Participant device prerequisites. In addition to bringing a computing device, participants also should bring a unit or a few lessons that they would like to redesign. In addition to bringing a computing device, participants also should bring a unit or a few lessons that they would like to redesign. |

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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The participants were given several math problems and asked to solve them using the fewest steps possible. The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. Gros et al.,

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents? You can build an agent and introduce it, but humans will immediately build a mental model of that AI agent. And the mental model is not going to be the one that you, as a designer, has. And that's where the kind of questions you're raising come in.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It That’s a big problem that is slowing change in college teaching, argued Wind, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and one of the organizers of the conference.

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