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May
9
Start with Innovative Schools…
Category: Learning Conversations, books I like, education, leadership, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, restructuring | 
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“How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?”
That was the question that US Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama asked on LinkedIn. A day later I posted response #1421. Here it is:
The definition for ‘Entrepreneur’ came from Google using ‘define: entrepreneur’, but I did not link to it since the link […]
Apr
25
“Who Have You Helped Today?” - Developing Empathy
Category: compassion, education, learning, lessons, pairadimes, reflection | Leave a Comment
Prelude
Two Brothers, Craig and Marc Kielburger, are my modern day heroes.
Tonight Marc is having dinner with Oprah Winfrey. The brothers’ US office is hosted by Oprah. They have had an audience with Mother Teresa. They have been featured on Oprah, CNN, CBC, BBC, and 60 Minutes. They are sought after speakers that have shared the […]
Apr
8
Articulate Your Thinking… (an e-mail correspondence)
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, books I like, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
In my last post about my Numeracy Tasks Pro-D session with Peter Liljedahl, I mentioned an e-mail I wrote almost 3 years ago. I dug up that e-mail and found an interesting ‘conversation’ between Gary Kern and I. My comments are after the e-mails.
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From:David
Sent:May 10, 2004 9:55 PM
To: [Our Math […]
Apr
4
Square Peg, Round Hole
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, education, instructional design, learning, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
A composition of other people’s thoughts and ideas… with a theme.
How to Bring our Schools Out of the 20th Century by Claudia Wallis, Sonja Steptoe, Time Magazine cover story Dec. 18, 2006
“For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the “achievement gap” between social […]
Apr
3
David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, books I like, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
Here is the gem I took from David Warlick’s Keynote “Derailing Education“. Warlick is referring to Friedman’s ‘Experts’ and ‘Adaptable People’… from The World Is Flat.
“These are the kinds of people that need to be coming out of our classrooms, people who know how to make themselves an expert and people who can learn, and […]
Apr
3
A Story About A Tree
Category: books I like, connecting online, cyberbullying, metaphor, networks, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Not long ago, if a group of ‘gamers’ got together for Dungeons and Dragons, people saw it as strange. Teenagers bonding by getting together and creating alter egos, or characters and living out a fantasy. Role Playing Gamers were sometimes perceived as a ‘fringe’ group of lost souls that lack a full grip on reality.
To […]
Mar
31
Three Quotes- Servant Leadership, Creative Tension & Vision, Knowledge Sharing in Schools
Category: books I like, leadership, pairadimes, restructuring, student leadership | Leave a Comment
This one is on Servant Leadership - providing students with capacities and competencies…
“Through their programs schools can provide the opportunity for the development of capacities and competencies, that enable young people to get started on the path of acting with a sense of civic responsibility. Through programs of community and “service” learning, student leadership programs, […]
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