Education as we know it is at a precipice. Nationally, we perceive that things aren’t truly working, that our society is changing, that the world is changing, and that there needs to be a response. But it feels as though we are stuck in a roundabout, circling through the same patterns, and trying to fix [...]
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Where are we going, where have we been?
December 31, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change, Web 2.0
As I come out of a somewhat self-imposed holiday hiatus, I’ve been catching up on “end of the year” blog posts. They have me thinking about where we’ve been this last year and where we are going. Jeff Utecht deems 2007 the year of the network, and 2008, the year of the live web. I would [...]
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Beginner’s mind
November 23, 2007 · 4 Comments · Change, Innovation, Teacher Learner
Garr Reynolds writes thought-provokingly on Presentation Zen about the concept of beginner’s mind and how we learn. Reynolds writes: The meaning of the beginner’s mind does not mean to retreat to the naiveté of a child. It is not about being simplistic or ignorant, it is about approaching life and its challenges with curiosity and [...]
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The ability to improvise
September 26, 2007 · No Comments · Change, Innovation
Warning–this is a somewhat esoteric post, but something that grabbed my interest and I wanted to share. This morning, to rev myself up for a day of workshops, I was listening to some podcasts on the way to work and ran across an Accidental Creative podcast interview with Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Freeplay: Improvisation in Life and [...]
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Idealism versus reality
September 6, 2007 · 1 Comment · Change
For many of us, summer is a time of learning and preparing for the new school year. Like our students, we start the new year fresh and full of optimistic ideas, for trying new teaching strategies or introducing new web tools or technology or changing our program. What happens when that optimism bumps into reality? [...]
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Off to a good start
August 16, 2007 · 3 Comments · Change, Future students, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
Today was great. My day started out with my computer “ringing” me because I was being invited to join a Skypecast workshop that Clay Burrell was conducting from Seoul. Pretty neat way to be woken up! (I must be turning into a total geek ) Then at school today, I assisted our principal in [...]
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Defining your miracle
July 26, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change, libraries, Web 2.0
To get somewhere, you have to be able to imagine where you are going. On her blog, Information wants to be Free, Meredith Farkas suggests: “Maybe it would make sense to be asking the miracle question in our libraries. If a miracle occured(sic) one night and all of the problems with your library were gone (or we [...]
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Can we ever go “back”?
July 23, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change, Journalism, Web 2.0
I just caught the end of the Democratic “YouTube” debate. As I was watching the follow-up discussion by some of the “you-tubers” who prepared videos, one of them mentioned that he thought we could never go back to the traditional debate format. This format felt much more spontaneous and authentic. Others, including the candidates, seemed to agree. [...]
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Opportunities for change part 2
July 14, 2007 · No Comments · Change
Seth Godin writes more about the iPhone, and how Verizon turned the contract with Apple down. As Julia Roberts says after she is turned away from a Beverly Hills boutique in Pretty Woman, ‘Big mistake. Huge.’ Godin points out that “no” is often the default answer, “because the potential for upside seems too small compared to [...]
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Opportunities for change?
July 14, 2007 · No Comments · Change, Web 2.0
How do we create opportunities where there are unanticipated problems? Seth Godin in his post, “Positives, not Negatives” astutely points out that by creating a phone that is more than a phone, Apple has created a problem for other cell phone makers where there wasn’t one before. “The iPhone is a gift for every cell [...]
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