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Ally Bank and Progressive’s Flo explain school.
A simple post today with what I think is a deep message. I hope this metaphor works for you as well as it does for me. In one minute and three seconds we see what school currently is too often … Continue reading
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Epilogue to: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
I received my copy of The Power of Pull by John Hagel III (Blog, Twitter), John Seely Brown (Web, Twitter), and Lang Davison (Blog, Twitter) yesterday and sat down with a cup of tea this morning and started to read. … Continue reading
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Have you ever watched or been part of this scenario: A Thanksgiving dinner with all the family. Great grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, newly weds, nieces and nephews. Uncle Dan is sitting with the youngest kids and asks Johnny what … Continue reading
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The world isn’t flat anymore, it fits entirely in your hand.
I dropped into my reader this morning and started to read Jeff Jarvis’ (Blog, Twitter) latest post, Mobile=Local and the second paragraph really caught my attention: The biggest battlefield is local and mobile (I combine them because soon, local will … Continue reading
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Yoda on learning, “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
Most Star War’s geeks know and love this scene, arguably one of the most memorable in the first trilogy. The segment of dialog that is usually referenced is: “No! Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” I … Continue reading
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The Power of Conversation
I have been reading Tom Peters (Blog, Twitter) work for almost 25 years now. I find it insightful, inspiring, and occasionally infuriating. I always wanted to have a chance to meet Tom and have a conversation over coffee. He does … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Assessment 3: Writing the obit on summative assessment
This is the third in a series of posts on assessment. I imagine that it won’t be the last, but I think this is the most important of the three thus far. The first post was inspired by a post … Continue reading
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Four “Must See” Presentations for Educators
I am not going to do more in this post than hopefully connect you with powerful thinking that I feel is essential for framing the conversation about rethinking school and discovering what its purpose is – why do we bother … Continue reading
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Rethinking School 101: Seven Ideas to Inspire Conversation
I am regularly amazed at the effect that Twitter can have on my thinking. Actually, not so much Twitter itself, but rather the links, shared by others, that I click through on. Today I came across an article by Maria … Continue reading
Status Quo 101: It’s a Race to the End
I started this as a response to Clay Burell’s (Blog, Twitter) post, “Barbarians with Laptops: An Unreasonable Fear?” and half way through decided to move it to my blog due to its length. The spark for this train of thought … Continue reading
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