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More than a tip o’ the hat
Steve Jobs saw ways to connect people and realized that that was the best thing he could do with his time and his intellect . . . find ways to connect us to the ones we love, we trust, we … Continue reading
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21st century (fill in your educational consideration)
This post is an omage to a friend and colleague, David Jakes, series: “Words Matter.” You can read his thoughts about the vocabulary of education at Strength of Weak Ties and djakes posterous (follow him on Twitter). The current debate … Continue reading
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“Well, why shouldn’t the classroom be the ‘real’ world?”
This morning I posted the following blog post, by Dr. Scott McLeod (Twitter) at Dangerously Irrelevant, on my FB wall: Our students want better work, not less work Chris Guillebeau says: Many people believe that the key to an improved … Continue reading
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Students are a product that comes off of a teacher assembly line
Time to start a new school year and with it wading back into the conversations about rethinking school. I’ve spent the past two months reading and talking with students, teachers, and parents about what is going right in their schools … Continue reading
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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
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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