“You gotta serve somebody….” Bob Dylan Who do we actually serve in our schools and who should we be serving? What changes in our thinking when we apply the notion of customer service to the school environment? In their book Innovation: Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, Curtis Carlson and Wililam Wilmot raise three central questions [...]
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Your wild and precious life
February 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Educon 2.0, Innovation, Teacher Learner
When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, [...]
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Beginner’s mind
November 23rd, 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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We’ve gotten Kudos!
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Innovation, Student projects
Bob Witowski at our campus has just received a coveted “Kudos from Drape” award from Darren Draper (who created the Pay Attention video, if you’re not familiar with his work) for Bob’s experiment using cell phones in his Algebra classroom. We’re mixed in with some pretty good company getting this award, so big congratulations [...]
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The disconnect
October 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Innovation, Web 2.0
A lot of posts among some of my online “acquaintances,” not to mention some issues at my own campus, have gotten me thinking about the disconnect between “the possible” and what’s permitted in schools. What particularly set me off today was a twitter post from a respected colleague who was gradually having all web 2.0 [...]
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The ability to improvise
September 26th, 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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For our sons and daughters
August 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Innovation, Web 2.0
On Tuesday night, I attended a service for a family friend and one of our students, Jack Jenkins. A family member read a poem that Jack had written in middle school, and one line resonated with me. “I am an important person and I have something to contribute to this world.” As we talk about [...]
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An innovation conference for educators?
May 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Innovation
Yesterday I wrote about the TED Talks, how inspiring they were, how the Encyclopedia of Life got jumpstarted there, and how I was thinking we should begin an innovation group at our campus. Then tonight, I read on think:lab that a group of education folks have been quietly planning a world wide “TED Talks” for [...]
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How can schools possibly innovate?
May 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Innovation, Laptops
I’m distressed. I just finished reading this article in the New York Times, which is on the front page of today’s print edition–“Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops.” I’m trying to imagine a similar headline: “Seeing no use for them, Google drops laptops”….or “Seeing no purpose for them, NyTimes drops laptops.” When are we [...]
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