Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

John Couch on Rewiring Education

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Episode 025, John Couch: Rewiring Education

In this episode, we speak with a former executive of one of the most influential companies on the planet! In addition to being a personal friend of Steve Jobs, John Couch was the Vice President of Education at Apple Inc. for 16 years. This giant in education enthralls us with stories from his book, Rewiring Education, explains the merits of challenge-based learning, and shares why creativity is worth 100 IQ points!
Couch and jobs pic

Connect with John Couch

Website: http://rewiringeducation.com/about/

Connect with Vrain Waves

Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

  • Purpose of Education (06:22)
  • 1912 Essay - Rockefeller, Board of Education
  • Todd Rose, End of Average
  • Lifelong learning & Challenge Based Learning (10:20)
  • Some resources for CBL: Digital Promise | Apple | EdSurge
  • Relevant, Creative, Collaborative, & Challenging
  • Ex: Throw a dinner party (13:42)
  • Rewiring Education (14:44)
  • Change is the only constant
  • Education Rewired (coming soon) - case studies
  • Beyond School non profit (17:53)
  • eSpark (18:43)
  • SAMR (19:31)
  • Space (20:10)
  • Dr. John Medina - Brain Rules
  • Campfire, watering hole, cave, mountaintop
  • Marco Torres
  • “Creativity is worth 100 IQ points.”
  • How do you push a 20,000 pound marshmallow? (26:04)
  • Microschools
  • “The way we design our classrooms today will ultimately define our societies tomorrow.”
  • Slides on website (28:43)
  • Chuck Yeager / sound barrier
  • Computer as a Mental bicycle
  • Benefits of Failure (33:39)
  • Technology is an environment (37:04)
  • “We hire people that can solve a problem.”
  • Graph of student engagement, Gallup
  • Lisa Mercier | I Wanna Iguana design challenge (39:38)
  • Everyone Can Create / #everyonecancreate
  • #makesomevrainwaves
  • tinyurl.com/vrainwavesfeedback
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