protecting the work.
note to self - read and repeat.
not looking for improvement.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
skip it
via david wiley:
so take a look at this
via @skip1 and @hardlynormal and @chrisbrogan
nice mantra - skip it
ie:
The hoops we have to jump through to get someone into housing are insane. Rd qualified for HPRP funding (Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program) that would help with move in costs. The paperwork for the landlord was 9 pages. To get $1,000 in assistance would probably cost the government $5,000 in admin costs. Worse yet, once the paperwork is approved, there is an 18 day wait for an inspection and who knows what else. That would mean Rd would have to remain living in a winter shelter for another three weeks or more.
Ya just have to love Shelene, when I faxed the paperwork to her she called me and said “we are going to skip it” and through Skip1.org she helped with the needed move in costs!
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we could be educating the world right now with tech, policy is getting in the way
so take a look at this
via @skip1 and @hardlynormal and @chrisbrogan
nice mantra - skip it
ie:
The hoops we have to jump through to get someone into housing are insane. Rd qualified for HPRP funding (Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program) that would help with move in costs. The paperwork for the landlord was 9 pages. To get $1,000 in assistance would probably cost the government $5,000 in admin costs. Worse yet, once the paperwork is approved, there is an 18 day wait for an inspection and who knows what else. That would mean Rd would have to remain living in a winter shelter for another three weeks or more.
Ya just have to love Shelene, when I faxed the paperwork to her she called me and said “we are going to skip it” and through Skip1.org she helped with the needed move in costs!
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
simon sinek
trust is a uniquely human experience, there's no check list
ie: most valuable possession on planet - children,
trust to babysit, someone you don't know with 10 yrs experience, rather someone within your community w/little experience?
we pick the 16 yr old we know.
why don't we do that at work - why do we rely on a paper vs community
why are we more obsessed with a resume, whether than - do you belong here
biggest challenge any organization has it its success
success begets forgetting the original vision
when stress goes up and passion goes down
you worked really hard in the beginning.. why didn't you feel it then
technology is incredible for so many things - but terrible for creating human relationships
since when is a person a luxury
we need hand-shake dialogues - where trust becomes the standard and not the exception
Simon you rock.
humanity 4.0 convo starting tomorrow, interested in how that pans out..
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
david wiley
Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling with responsibility for the research unit.
David is founder and board member of the Open High School of Utah and Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge. David was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER grant. David is also the Founder of OpenContent.org and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.
David is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), and served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan. David lives in Utah with his wife, Elaine, and their five children.
open ed conf - open source moving into non-software types of communities
8 yrs ago only higher ed, but now greater involvement in 9-12 and community colleges
david wiley in 2009
open highschool, he founded a couple yrs ago, it's a charter school, fully online, public school, so state pays for utah students, and capacity is capped, funded for 250
committed to a high level, continuous quality improvement
in charter app:
1) only using open ed resources - to sustain ongoing continuous quality improvement
2) culture on really caring about data in day to day kinds of ways, rather than waiting till end
teachers involved in a process of being involved in learning management system
teaching model
all course materials are loaded into moodle, students interact there
teachers interacting all day, skype, phone, etc
instead of giving same lecture 6 times in a day. so on days it works for you, you don't hear from teacher, so sort of like a blended model but all on line
strategic tutoring... only
the more we're able to do w/tech the stronger the moral imperative becomes
benefits of openness
huge question
enlarge the activity space
goal - to be useful/helpful
q&a - openness and capitalism and socialism
flatworld knowledge
always - policy is much tougher than the possibility of tech
we could be educating the world right now with tech, policy is getting in the way
open 1.0 -mit - how it's supported, not connected to something sustainable. also very much a read only as opposed to a read-write, even though all are open, there's a lot that you couldn't edit if you wanted to (pdf)
doesn't model something others can adopt broadly
not a critique of mit - just the first guy out of the gate is a 1.0 and now it's 10 yrs later, we ought to be better
2.0 - more connected - have revenue generations built in - can sustain over long time (how easily editable it is)
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story
my lengthy response to Will Richardson's: The New Story (?)
the story we currently see.
when Gates talks like this, it riles me, innovation can't happen in public ed, whatever. but generally speaking, it's true. i could go on.. i mean, innovation is learning, learning is innovation, hard for me to see a person learning without seeing them innovate. so basically, we're accepting that learning can't happen in public ed. which is fine to accept that, because it often does not happen there. but dang. we're publicly declaring that we can't learn in public school. that is way more ridiculous than thinking a kid could learn how to learn through studying soccer.
we now can connect to people and info we've never been able to connect to before, allowing anyone with web access the potential to learn whatever they want, whenever, however, whereever and from/with whomever - they choose.
sounds very messy. and from our experience, it is very messy. not so much from the managerial end, but from the mindset end. getting ourselves to believe, we really can learn whatever we want.
from the managerial sense, we have the means to make it not so messy. if we could trust tech to do what it wants to do. if we could trust tech to be more to us than a phone line or expensive paper. if we could trust the web to be a web.
statements like that make people uneasy. it sounds so uneducated. but again, how educated does it sound when we declare innovation can't happen in public school. do we really think we're on a better track to curing cancer without innovation?
so how does innovation (again, call it what you want, what we're meaning here is that connection that was never made before that now provides something useful) happen? we believe it happens best when there is no incentive other than that which comes from within. we fear un-productivity, we fear laziness. what if we redefine lazy as lack of hunger. what if we focus on helping people find what they are hungry for. Daniel Coyle refers to a deep practice, that strengthens and grows myelin sheath in the brain. but not only that it would grow at a faster rate, and not only that it would sustain, but it would thrive. doing what you do because you can't not. doing what you do no matter the reward, no matter if anyone is watching, applauding you on. interesting for us to find stability at the core of change and the neurobiology of passion.
we believe choice is the ultimate empowerment. if the learner owns the learning, no one can match that. individuals become indispensable. communities become indispensable.
so what if our message to parents/community - is that -
it's your life/school - design it. we are here to facilitate that.
more..
spaces need to become fluid, malleable like the web IDEO: the new workplace, fluid, disruptive, 24/7
these spaces need permission to learn. period. no agenda.
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the story we currently see.
the web is allowing personalization in public school.
personalization has always existed. but on a wide scale, it generally exists within some homeschooler/unschoolers, charters, private schools. where the numbers are down. the key to personalization is, well, personalization.when Gates talks like this, it riles me, innovation can't happen in public ed, whatever. but generally speaking, it's true. i could go on.. i mean, innovation is learning, learning is innovation, hard for me to see a person learning without seeing them innovate. so basically, we're accepting that learning can't happen in public ed. which is fine to accept that, because it often does not happen there. but dang. we're publicly declaring that we can't learn in public school. that is way more ridiculous than thinking a kid could learn how to learn through studying soccer.
we now can connect to people and info we've never been able to connect to before, allowing anyone with web access the potential to learn whatever they want, whenever, however, whereever and from/with whomever - they choose.
sounds very messy. and from our experience, it is very messy. not so much from the managerial end, but from the mindset end. getting ourselves to believe, we really can learn whatever we want.
from the managerial sense, we have the means to make it not so messy. if we could trust tech to do what it wants to do. if we could trust tech to be more to us than a phone line or expensive paper. if we could trust the web to be a web.
personalization begs redefinition of success, per an individual and their community
we now can choose/write our own success story. one reason we're not moving toward authentic personalization is most of us still assume this universal standard. if you'll notice, most often when people talk change, the part where they bring up a standard, is stated in such a matter of fact, un-debatable way, and usually at the end, or as a sublte aside. it's a given very few challenge. (ie: within great stories of success toward personalization sentences end with, and we held our own on the tests, etc) this subtle mindset is what's keeping us from the very change we seek. each time we say that, we reinforce a standard of measure. the very standard of measure we are trying to redefine.growing up, for some reason, one value embedded in me was that if i was calling judgment on someone, that very issue was like a top issue i was struggling with myself. this taught me, even before my transformed mindset from reading Carold Dweck's Mindset, to be ever so curious about things that ticked me off or got me riled. they made me look within and wonder - what could i learn about my shortcomings from what i was calling out in others.
i see that value especially important here. most talk on edreform (or whatever you call it) involves standardization and standardized testing. it's so easy now, to call out the tests, the standards, etc, as the culprit. yet - when given the chance, most everyone's reform, involves a fixed standard or agenda, that isn't universal. if we've experienced some type/form of learning, it's hard for us to not think everyone needs it. it's hard for us to let go of the teaching, the control. it's hard for us to believe that learning is natural. (disclaimer - for many, learning is not currently natural. many need detox and time and permission to get back to that natural state. most of us are afraid of the time that detox takes. most of us are afraid of the appearance of non-productivity that we need in order to be. however, if we don't start there, if we don't take that time, we are no different than before, we are not personalizing, we're just differentiating better.) the story is that it's your story
how beautiful is that. what tech wants is for us for us to be us. to take a deep breath. to chill out. to focus on learning. notice the unlikely, dream boldly, connect to people and info, do what matters most. to learn about what we care about. to follow our fancy. to notice and mingle with people.statements like that make people uneasy. it sounds so uneducated. but again, how educated does it sound when we declare innovation can't happen in public school. do we really think we're on a better track to curing cancer without innovation?
so how does innovation (again, call it what you want, what we're meaning here is that connection that was never made before that now provides something useful) happen? we believe it happens best when there is no incentive other than that which comes from within. we fear un-productivity, we fear laziness. what if we redefine lazy as lack of hunger. what if we focus on helping people find what they are hungry for. Daniel Coyle refers to a deep practice, that strengthens and grows myelin sheath in the brain. but not only that it would grow at a faster rate, and not only that it would sustain, but it would thrive. doing what you do because you can't not. doing what you do no matter the reward, no matter if anyone is watching, applauding you on. interesting for us to find stability at the core of change and the neurobiology of passion.
we believe choice is the ultimate empowerment. if the learner owns the learning, no one can match that. individuals become indispensable. communities become indispensable.
so what if our message to parents/community - is that -
it's your life/school - design it. we are here to facilitate that.
more..
spaces need to become fluid, malleable like the web IDEO: the new workplace, fluid, disruptive, 24/7
these spaces need permission to learn. period. no agenda.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
steven johnson
especially the 4th video - on space..
the co-working space.
groups of people sharing face to face work environments, but composition is people working for diff firms, for selves, etc
very mesh.
diverse interests and fields of expertise in that space, crucially not all working for the same person.
slightly more professionalized version of the coffee house.
the co-working space.
groups of people sharing face to face work environments, but composition is people working for diff firms, for selves, etc
very mesh.
diverse interests and fields of expertise in that space, crucially not all working for the same person.
slightly more professionalized version of the coffee house.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
kirsten olson
i;m currently reading here: wounded by school
student: actually when i'm stupidist, thinking most simply & conventional that i do best on std tests. - @OlsonKirsten 's wounded by school
student: ...in a confusing land of contradictory rules.
my heart is heavy. oh what we miss.. in the name of school. reading - @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded by School ... let's notice people.
ave child by M Buscemi: part of that majority, hump part of the bell, spends his life unnoticed in an average kind of hell. -wounded by schl
feeling unseen, unknown, undersold in school - wounds of the average - @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded by School ... notice people.
we are terribly attached to an institution that does not, in the face of a great deal of evidence, serve us well. @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded
we need to stop chasing exponentially expanding content. vincent hawkins, director of curric & instruct, vermont
new employees are of limited value to our company if they can't grow out of the role for which they were intially hired, bill engler , being versatiel is the surest way to get yourself noticed
we'll take a risk hiring someone w/o technical expertise, but you can't teach someone to be confident or flexible. bill gallagher, pres of computer bases financial systems, ADS
Gatto: lockstep schooling, drvein by standardization/obedience, drives out imagination and courage
@OlsonKirsten p. 86 is huge, we don't yet have language to frame our problems in affective terms - wounded by school
none have hrs/stamina to ? anything about the ed system -we're so preoccupied w/our own kids immediate problems - wounded @OlsonKirsten
after 6th grade i found myself abandoning the one thing i had found comfort in for so many years, my imagination. -wounded @OlsonKirsten
student: actually when i'm stupidist, thinking most simply & conventional that i do best on std tests. - @OlsonKirsten 's wounded by school
student: ...in a confusing land of contradictory rules.
my heart is heavy. oh what we miss.. in the name of school. reading - @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded by School ... let's notice people.
ave child by M Buscemi: part of that majority, hump part of the bell, spends his life unnoticed in an average kind of hell. -wounded by schl
feeling unseen, unknown, undersold in school - wounds of the average - @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded by School ... notice people.
we are terribly attached to an institution that does not, in the face of a great deal of evidence, serve us well. @OlsonKirsten 's Wounded
we need to stop chasing exponentially expanding content. vincent hawkins, director of curric & instruct, vermont
new employees are of limited value to our company if they can't grow out of the role for which they were intially hired, bill engler , being versatiel is the surest way to get yourself noticed
we'll take a risk hiring someone w/o technical expertise, but you can't teach someone to be confident or flexible. bill gallagher, pres of computer bases financial systems, ADS
Gatto: lockstep schooling, drvein by standardization/obedience, drives out imagination and courage
@OlsonKirsten p. 86 is huge, we don't yet have language to frame our problems in affective terms - wounded by school
none have hrs/stamina to ? anything about the ed system -we're so preoccupied w/our own kids immediate problems - wounded @OlsonKirsten
after 6th grade i found myself abandoning the one thing i had found comfort in for so many years, my imagination. -wounded @OlsonKirsten
Saturday, January 29, 2011
umair haque
.......Real change doesn't begin with governments, presidents, or prime ministers. It begins with each of us. In the 20th century, never-ending mass-marketing, monopoly, and mega-politics came together to convince us, each and every one, that we're not really free: just free enough to choose between different flavors of the same old toxic junk. It was a trick, a ploy, a television hallucination. We're the freest people in history. It's time to use it like we meant it.
Every revolution begins from the bottom up. Fed up with the status quo? Tired of the 20th century? Then don't just talk about it. Reject it and refuse it. Build a better 21st century instead.
One of history's greatest builders once said: "be the change you want to see in the world". Let me update Gandhi's wisdom for the next decade. Want a revolution? Be the revolution you want to see in the world.
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via BizMusician Craig Cortello
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." Alvin Toffler
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via @DrGarcia
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
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"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Angela Monet
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
lucy
1) notice - i love dogs
2) dream - i'm a dog trainer
3) connect - to Maddie, who showed me how to train her dog
4) do - i went home and trained my dog and made a how to slideshare
2) dream - i'm a dog trainer
3) connect - to Maddie, who showed me how to train her dog
4) do - i went home and trained my dog and made a how to slideshare
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