I was very surprised indeed when I checked out the resources at the bottom of Moodle...I didn't realize there were so many available! Or maybe I really did know, but hadn't explored any or gave it much thought. I will spend more time getting to know some of those because they looked very interesting!
I had never heard about the Cloud Institute Framework before reading chapter 10 in our text. As I read, I kept thinking how that is what I would like to learn about and in that manner. The broad topics that students learn about are very current and would interest any child. Cultural preservation and transformation, sustainable economics, and dynamics of systems and change (to name a few) all sound very engaging. How interesting to learn about a history topic and think about why it occurred and how we changed because of it. And then to think even deeper about how it still effects us today and how to prevent repetitive actions in the future.
Chapter 13 seems rather hard for some when thinking about shifting our mentalities. All 3 areas do need examination however. We should be constantly evaluating what we teach, how we teach it and the best method for assessing what we just taught. It would be very irresponsible indeed to be neglectful in self reflection in those areas. I found areas of the 16 habits to be something students do not complete on a regular basis (like thinking flexibly, thinking about your thinking, trying something in a different way, and taking risks). Too often students sit there in defeat when they can't accomplish a task the first time or with a method that has been successful in the past. They take little risk and do not try the problem in a different way. It seems as these 16 habits should explicitly taught to children, so they do actually become habits.
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