Seth's Blog: Doing what you love (but maybe you can't get paid for it)

Seth's Blog: Doing what you love (but maybe you can't get paid for it)

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
(And the twist, because there is always a twist, is that as soon as you focus on your art and leave the money behind, you may just discover that this focus turns out to be the secret of actually breaking through and making money.)

a simple plan

1/everyone is known by someone
2/everyone talks to themself everyday

in the city.
as the day.

redefineschool.com


merry.

tweets dec 24 - get closer

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Noam Kostucki (@noamkos)
12/24/12 7:20 AM
Beautiful video :)ow.ly/gkECH



Tim Tebow (@TimTebow)
12/17/12 1:21 PM
Psalm 147:3 - He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. #SHES #PrayForNewtownpic.twitter.com/FGpY22uY

The Bold Academy (@BoldAcademy)
12/24/12 7:25 AM
People often forget that kindness is free. You should be giving it away like candy at an Independence Day parade. ow.ly/i/1gqOZ


Saul Kaplan (@skap5)
12/24/12 7:36 AM
When anyone thinks it is necessary to say, it is what it is, it is always far more than what it is.



Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)
12/24/12 7:36 AM
Scott Anthony, Innovation’s 'Dr. Disruptive' buswk.co/UU7Wyw via @BW > via@parkparadigm

Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner)
12/23/12 7:53 AM
Powerful NYT article about poor kids' college struggles. All kids "college–ready" must be more than just academics nyti.ms/WFAYXI

teny Oded Gross (@tenygross)
12/23/12 7:54 AM
Wow. Thank you to over a 100 who have donated so far, and the outpouring of concern and support!! Thank you!!

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
12/24/12 7:03 AM
Fascinating: Theft of maple syrup came from global strategic maple syrup reserve, run by Canadian cartel.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/bus…

let's not wait

a tiny huge plan.
to get at the root of everything.



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tweets dec 23

JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein) 12/23/12 7:34 AM Innovation in the Key of Learning! | Canadian Education Association (CEA) cea-ace.ca/blog/stephen-h… via@TeachersApps

connect this to Seth on web design

At the centre of every acoustic guitar string is a steel core that is instrumental in the creation of bright and resonant sound. Take a look at the top two strings of a standard six-string instrument and you'll be able to see what that core looks like in its most innocent form: relatively thin, pure in construction; with just a little amount of tension they will produce a clear, relatively high-pitched sound. Moving across the fret board, the diameter of each string is gradually increased by winding another metal material around the core. The slight change in the thickness of each successive string provides a deeper, more resonant sound, requiring a little more tension to create the desired pitch. While many factors contribute to the sound quality of an acoustic guitar, significant credit can be attributed to the strings and, in particular, that pure steel core around which everything else is wound.

perhaps why we see tech as less than it is.. 

it wants to help us get back to us.. not back to the classroom... no?

Canadian Teacher Federation researcher, Bernie Froese-Germain challenges the idea that innovation is dependent on technology. While technology could act as a resource in the process of educational change it is not, in itself, the real innovation. In fact, without appropriate, ongoing support for educators, technology will continue to have very little effect at the classroom level. Froise-Germain is insistent that an important part of innovation in education must be a focus on the learning relationship that is grounded in a connection between curriculum and pedagogy. 

ah.. Bryan Jackson

Finally, Bryan Jackson reflects out loud on his own journey as a teacher who has been deeply moved by what can happen when both educator and student are engaged in creating communities grounded in trust and empathy and gathered around a common purpose. For Jackson, what started as an assignment to offer a guitar class turned into something much more, and that something allowed students to begin to see themselves as the inventors of a learning space that extended well beyond what the course was originally intended to do and be. The resulting story is, at once, inspired and inspirational!

Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart) 12/23/12 7:36 AM teaching students to reduce "info noise" biggest responsibility of 21st century teacher? certainly my big challenge. edutopia.org/blog/research-…

what if rising to the top of the noise... is simply.. folding ba ck into yourself.

then you are the expert.. today.. and ongoingly...

sandymaxey (@sandymaxey) 12/22/12 8:36 AM CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Our Obsession With Efficiency Is Killing Innovation businessinsider.com/clay-christens… Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) 12/22/12 8:37 AM Gangnam Style becomes first video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube ... bbc.in/T5F5Lw(via @BBC) Mary Ann Reilly (@MaryAnnReilly) 12/23/12 7:14 AM Helpful via @BillCrosby LinkedIn. Have a look at this which will help you dial it in next clip.bz/63 Clay Forsberg (@clayforsberg) 12/23/12 7:20 AM "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals." - Samuel Ullman. @JohnnyFocal

jerry mintz - tedxyouth

love the end...
... this is how it starts..

Seth's Blog: How to make a website: a tactical guide for marketers

Seth's Blog: How to make a website: a tactical guide for marketers

oh my.
merry.

tweets et al dec 22

Max Ray (@maxmathforum)
11/16/12 4:54 PM
@davidwees notice/wonder article: mathforum.org/articles/commu… @pamjwilson@MathBratt

oh my.
taking noticing and wonder and attaching them to school math word problems.
imagine if we let go. imagine if we just let kids (and us) notice and wonder.. about anything .. and everything... and then come to us (or to anyone) with their - need to know - questions. no?


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Toma Bedolla (@Toma_Bedolla) 12/22/12 8:31 AM I couldn't agree more. Let's talk reality as startups. Andreessen and Mixpanel Call for an End to “Bullshit Metrics” dthin.gs/V3zeoo

My experience (I am the co-founder of Mixpanel, an analytics company that helps companies like Airbnb, Khan Academy, Dictionary.com, Match.com, and Path) has shown that companies should start by tracking a single actionable metric that they can literally bet the company on. I call this their One Key Metric (OKM). Companies choosing their OKM realize they must pick an actionable metric because pageviews or sign ups aren’t harsh enough and don’t correlate highly enough with the success of their business.

 so what would our okm be?

i think it's a collection of flavors of success.

ulimately - a healthy community - like bunker roy shows us...

but along the way.. and then ongoingly... random/eclectoc/non-judgmental flavors of success..

In old age the emphasis shifts from doing to being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, know nothing of being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?   – Echart Tolle

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ReachScale (@ReachScale)
12/22/12 8:04 AM
Petraeus/McFarland convo shows Murdoch plan2run roughshod over American politics w/out pretense of journalistic honesty

guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…

literal guns.. literal bullets.. literally hurt/kill a human.
we mourn.
[currently a bigger bullet.. money.. bigger gun.. people caught up and lost to greed. scared people.]
figurative guns (greedy/scared people)... figurative bullets (money).. literally hurt/kill humans and\or human spirit.
we perpetuate the hurting/dying.

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Ira Socol (@irasocol)
12/22/12 8:03 AM
@johntspencer @wmchamberlain graduate schools are usually worthless in terms of learning. Introspection, on the other hand

John Spencer (@johntspencer)
12/22/12 8:03 AM
@irasocol And when you push them, it wasn't school they loved so much as teachers who cared about them as individuals #rechat

John Spencer (@johntspencer)
12/22/12 8:02 AM
@irasocol I've met a few who loved school for valid reasons - it was a refuge in the midst of a crazy home-life #rechat

Debbie (@MissShuganah)
12/22/12 8:11 AM
@johntspencer My sanctuary was internal. I daydreamed. I also used to be my own Captain Kangaroo. To this day male voices are soothing.

William Chamberlain (@wmchamberlain)
12/22/12 8:02 AM
@irasocol I loved school, was a lousy teacher for a lot of years to. We can change though :)

Ira Socol (@irasocol)
12/22/12 8:00 AM
@johntspencer yeah. The "loved school" group can be very dangerous. I would need to know a lot more before hiring one

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JackieGerstein Ed.D. (@jackiegerstein)
12/22/12 7:59 AM
elearn Magazine: Can a Video Game Make Someone Nice? elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?ai… by #gbl

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Daniel Pink (@DanielPink)
12/22/12 8:31 AM
@Richard_Florida @costrike @skap5 -- Or public transportation. Our family has 5 people, 1 car, and 5 Smartrip passes.

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Bach: the Design Thinker

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via schank
http://www.socraticarts.com/masters-degree-programs.cfm

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Great News! If you're looking for a good movie rental during the holiday season, I wanted to let you know One Day on Earth was just released on iTunes. Check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/one-day-on-earth/id573929094

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Diane Lauer (@MrsLauer)
12/21/12 6:24 AM
iPads Make Learning Fun for Loveland Students reporterherald.com/news/education… #tsdr2j #cbmschat via@JessicaMaherRH

stephens & khan - higher ed

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d9247be60a7ad902bb37e1a5c&id=29ea997b81&e=9d19443adb

written by dale:
in his recent book, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, Khan outlines his ideas for the future of learning.The Chronicle offers a summary of Khan’s proposal for higher education:

“In a chapter titled ‘What College Could Be Like,’ Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and projects with mentors, and would continue their education with self-paced learning similar to that of Khan Academy. The students would attend ungraded seminars at night on art and literature, and the faculty would consist of professionals the students would work with as well as traditional professors.

‘Traditional universities proudly list the Nobel laureates they have on campus (most of whom have little to no interaction with students),’ he writes. ‘Our university would list the great entrepreneurs, inventors, and executives serving as student advisers and mentors.’

Mr. Khan writes that he admires the work of Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, who set up a fellowship program for college students to drop out and pursue entrepreneurship with the help of financial backing and mentors. But he believes living on a college campus is more valuable than Mr. Thiel acknowledges. ‘Grow Thiel’s fellowship to several hundred students a year; allow them to be mentored in various settings, not just one where they are starting a venture; house the students in an inspiring residential campus; and give them a scaffold of academics, and we are talking about almost the same thing,’ he writes. Although students would not be graded in the imagined university he describes, they would compile a portfolio of their work and assessments from their mentors.”

UnCollege strongly believes in Sal Khan’s vision of higher education. This vision has led us to create the highly anticipated UnCollege Gap Year program. Launching in late 2013, the gap year curriculum contains key features of Khan’s imagined program as well as a number of other experiences needed for personal and professional success.

Here are the four key areas of work and study:

• Developing The Effective Self – Acquire the habits and practices of successful people, understand the depths of who you are and what you want to contribute, and actualize all that you can be.
• Becoming A Hackademic – Practice skills you’ll need to participate in today’s information economy, from math and programming to design and communication.
• Sharing Common Experiences – Go on adventures with an awesome cadre of UnCollege Fellows, visiting pockets of innovation across the globe. Have jobs and experiences that connect you with both the world’s elite and the rest of humanity.
• Building Common Understanding – Get the UnCollege equivalent of a liberal arts education, developing a foundation of knowledge that fosters meaningful connections across disciplines and boundaries.

You’ll also:

• Live abroad for three months.
• Build your personal brand by speaking at a conference, writing an op-ed for a major news outlet, building a personal website, and so forth.
• Work in the service and labor economy.
• Build a portfolio of academic and professional work.
• Land an internship a cutting-edge company where you learn skills valuable in tomorrow’s economy.

This type of education will offer learners success far beyond what a traditional college setting can offer. This program has the potential to truly change the face of higher education as we know it today. For more information about UnCollege's Gap Year program, click here. Applications will open in early 2013.



If you enjoyed this newsletter, please forward it to friends and encourage them to join the movement at uncollege.org!

-Dale

Seth's Blog: Question the question

Seth's Blog: Question the question

are we falling in love with the questions?....
[from one of nic askew's soulbiographies]

otto scharmer

http://www.blog.ottoscharmer.com/?p=448

“We are tinkering with all these reforms, with all these innovation initiatives, we are renewing the “house” of education with another window here or another door there — but frankly, what we need most is a radically different FOUNDATION for the entire house!” I loved that. Isn’t that so true?

also posted..

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page


love it - her main assessment - was that it felt very very good.

homeschooling

school-violence-homeschooling/

dalai lama

 Dalai Lama “There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

bif hq

using difficulty

When making music gets too easy, says White, it becomes harder to make it sing.


via 

John Hagel

Sometimes, the best route to fulfillment is the path of more resistance - difficulty as a catalyst for creativity

THE USES OF DIFFICULTY | More Intelligent Life

moreintelligentlife.com

The brain likes a challenge—and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity. Ian Leslie takes a hard line...  read more »

brendon burchard - charged

ambition is always unrealistic.

without that - what are we doing everyday.

as the day
in charge of the day

if you injure your brain - they tell you to use your mind to fix it.

creative expression is currency

226 - drive for consciousness

Seth's Blog: What you waiting for?

Seth's Blog: What you waiting for?

let's not wait.. kathleen-taylor-authenticity/

c j williams - interview

an-interview-with-graphic-designer-c-j-williams-2/

steve hargadon - hacking at the roots..

steve-hargadon-changing-education-hacking-roots-not-branches

his post on it here

ed convo doesn't respect or promote natural learning.
value in process

audrey - very rare that we let tools free us up..

n the Hangout (l to r): @audreywatters, @craigseasholes, @hrheingold, @pammoran & @stevehargadon

great point - we bring in all these experts... and think we need to follow them.. when again - we need to realize we are fine right now..
learning is natural...

are we asking students to have voice in an existing system? or is this an awkward power struggle. - huge.

Seth - what matter most - as the day

Seth's Blog: But which is the sideshow?

Some people spend their best energy on the new project, squeezing in the day job when they must. Others (the ones who rarely ship) insist on every element of the day job being finished before they practice their music, write their book or otherwise make a ruckus.
If you're serious about building a new sort of asset, or experiencing the cutting edge of new technology, or rebuilding the way you grow, the first way to demonstrate that seriousness is to put your heavy hitters in charge of it, while refusing to pay much attention at all to the people or the metrics of the old thing.

your focus...
what matters most...
as the day...


new-york-times-gets-into-original-ebook-business-with-byliner/

What make Byliner stories compelling for readers comes down to three things: Price, length, and subject, Bryant said. The length of a Byliner story is perfect for journalists, Bryant said, because it lets you expand beyond the constraints of typical newspaper or magazine writing. “It’s a matter of finding the right type of narrative that will flourish in that kind of space between magazines and books,” he said.
Being timely and topical are two of the biggest selling points for any newspaper.