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Ed, sorry for your losses this week. Yes - 91 is a lot of years. He saw lots of change - 1918 - 2009.
I think it is great you have a local group taking this together. Ought to have a support group - a team. Take care Gene
Commented Sep 7, 2009 on Getting Started - Ed Den Beste at Awesome data-driven educators
Getting Started - Ed Den Beste
Sorry that this is my first post. It has been a pretty crummy week. My grandfather died this week. He was 91 years old. That is a long time to live. We also had to put down our chocolate lab. She was 12 years old. She had been sick and we found that she had bladder cancer. Rough week. My...
PS (and comment #50)
Posted 2 slide remakes on the cited Flickr pool http://www.flickr.com/groups/858082@N25/pool/ - (perhaps we should start a new group?)
I didn't post the most minor remake - change "fired" to "fried" and "(served with a good muscatel, of course)"
Commented Aug 18, 2009 on Slide - Any educator that buys wall maps or globes should be fired at Dangerously Irrelevant
Slide - Any educator that buys wall maps or globes should be fired
Download this file: png ppt pptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. UPDATE 1: In addition to the great comments below, see also my follow-up post. UPDATE 2: We're having a slide remake contest! Deadline is Aug 22, 2009.
Comment # 49 to this post! A record over the 3 years?
I luv NPR - last Sunday's Weekend Edition was an educational home run. "Taking an American Vacation - Google Style" is definitely worth the listen - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111921898
Other items were NYU's middle east campus, digital textbooks in California and "teaching naked" (thankfully college, not K-12).
Pockets of change are rampant in education, while the core.......
Commented Aug 18, 2009 on Slide - Any educator that buys wall maps or globes should be fired at Dangerously Irrelevant
Slide - Any educator that buys wall maps or globes should be fired
Download this file: png ppt pptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. UPDATE 1: In addition to the great comments below, see also my follow-up post. UPDATE 2: We're having a slide remake contest! Deadline is Aug 22, 2009.
One of Deming's 14 points for change was to "drive out fear". Being fired is fearful. Understanding consequences of the status quo is probably a better method albeit slower than using fear.
How about a contest? Keep the idea, but re-word the slide.
Commented Aug 15, 2009 on Sometimes you hit a home run, sometimes you strike out at Dangerously Irrelevant
Sometimes you hit a home run, sometimes you strike out
As a blogger, it’s sometimes hard to anticipate how folks will react to your content. If you’re striving to reach and dialogue with others, hopefully your blogging is of value to them and your audience and interactions grow. Occasionally, of course, what you write will strike a wrong chord or tu...
Movie Promotes Blogging - driving home last eve after seeing Julie and Julia and I thought of your post Scott. Movie is about a young woman who cooks all of Julia Child's 520+ recipes in 365 days and BLOGS about the experience daily - circa 2002. It is also about Child's life in France in the early 50's with her husband learning French cooking.
OK this is not a great movie, but will be watched by a fair number of middle age plus folks. My bet is that it will promote blogging as a creative regenerative growthful activity.
I found a certain irony that this tech promoting movie had a "foreign food" motif. I do agree with the post message that "globalness" is about more than food and holidays.
Re good comment on language and competition and cooperation - I'm reminded of old saying about change - it happens due to peer or fear. We change because we copy a peer or because we are scared. Both are external motivators.
Change liking learning works best and lasts longer if internally motivated.
Commented Aug 15, 2009 on Slide - Global awareness instruction must move beyond foods and holidays at Dangerously Irrelevant
Slide - Global awareness instruction must move beyond foods and holidays
Download this file: png ppt pptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool.
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