Interdisciplinary learning cultivates a mindsetThe marketing of mindsets was everywhere this year: “How to Develop Mindsets for Compassion and Caring in Students.” “Building A Tinkering Mindset In Young Students Through Making.” “6 Must-Haves for… More of active inquiry that draws from a range of disciplinary ways of thinking in order to investigate essential questions and ideas about the world.

We so frequently hear from kids & communityWhat I have always been hoping to accomplish is the creation of community.Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-First-Person-Stories-Twenty-First-ebook/dp/B082ZQBL98/ https://www.amazon.com/Disability-Visibility-Adapted-Young-Adults-ebook/dp/B08VFT4R9T/… More alike the need for purpose-driven learning experiences, rooted in the world outside of school as a contrast to their experience of school as individualized, isolated & isolating: that is to say, not really connected to things they find meaningful & valuable to learn about, not connected to the peer & community relationships they want to build, and not connected the world outside of school.

I think that the world is necessarily interdisciplinary, meaning you start with a complex problem or an interest or something else that exists out there in the world and you draw from a range of perspectives and frameworks and content
and skills in order to address it.

I think our take is that interdisciplinary learning really looks like how we learn in the world outside of school so the more that we can make schools look like interdisciplinary learning spaces the more easily kids will navigate that transition from the world of school to the world outside of it.

There are three aspects of interdisciplinary learning: critical thinkingCredulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that’s what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” But it can be much more dangerous… More, collaboration, and reflection.

Interdisciplinary learning is not a step-by-step guide, it’s going to look differentOur friends and allies at Randimals have a saying, What makes us different, makes all the difference in the world.Randimals We agree. Randimals are made up of two different animals… More depending on your context.

MINDFOOD IV: Top 3 Interdisciplinary Lessons – YouTube

What School Ought to Teach (WSOT) list consists of 10 key competenciesAll healthy and resilient institutions have a well-functioning competency network (Laloux 2014; Wilson 2015). A good way to understand competency networks is via the notion of trustworthiness and the nurturing… More, embedded in a humanistic view, that prepare young people for life in a perpetually changing world.

1. How to confront themselves with challenges
2. How to function in relation to the world and nature, as well as with one’s own body
3. The ideas of science and scholarship (learning)
4. How to function in society
5. Aesthetic and cultural awarenessAcceptance means training mental health service providers to look at autism and other disabilities as a part of a person’s identity, rather than a problem that needs to be fixed. Acceptance… More
6. How to function in variable contexts and environments
7. How to function in relation to the state
8. Entrepreneurship
9. Interpersonal communication
10. Self-development

What School Ought to Teach (WSOT) list – Holistic Think Thank

Further readingThere are three types of reading: eye reading, ear reading, and finger reading.The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan: A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child’s Confidence and Love of Learning Most schools and… More,