Hands up Clap you hands and clasp your hands - what thumb ends on top.
Either your right or left thumb this is natural . Try and do it the other way around and it feels very odd - Some nice hokey left brain right brain chat as warm up. Read to end for conclusion.
Best books on changes we are facing.
"Hot Flat and Crowded " Thomas Friedman is a depressing read but read last chapters what needs to change gets more optimistic.
"Who's Your City" Richard Florida - place is more important and quality of life you need to be more diverse and specialised.
"Competing on Analytics"- Thomas Davenport
"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
"Life Entrepreneurs" Christopher Gergen
You can now invest in place - put the right infrastructure - and people will like working there. Big thing in among US States at moment is that they are competing to have best Internet Infrastructure. If you have this and some other things every valley can be silicon valley.
Rise of Medical Industrial Complex
Biotech , Nanotech , Genetic Identification, Significant Viral Threats , Informatics and greater patient power,
People are turning off their landlines and only using mobile phones
Homes are all going wireless
McDonald's have gone wireless
Gaming now bigger than movies average age 33.
Use great Wii advert to demonstrate how people engage
You can play games over the internet - grandparents do this
Serious Games Site gets a plug
There is a virtual school with science labs just come on line.
pinball - atari - now Wii Use social networks "rate my professor.com" Holographic classrooms have arrived in US ( $30,000) to install - you can walk through heart or human body. You can import a holographic but real Spanish speaker into a language classroom.
If you had real analytics and predictive modelling on your students - you would be able to give them tailored support event tailored learning - just like Amazon.
We need Critical Learning - to process all the dramatic changes - being active reflectors not passive reflectors - analytics are going to try and keep you in a velvet furrow
Most people get jobs through social connections and most people get fired through interpersonal connections - how do we get social learning more formally into the curriculum. The better you get along with people the more employable you will be - a teacher as a role model who mostly works on their own - needs to be challenged or pupils need to see educators working in teams.
We need project based learning, collaborative learning, service learning and socially networked learning - we need courageous learning - you need to be a rookie every year - to get out of your comfort zone and this will keep your neurons tuned. Good for you and for your employers.
Cave people ( Colleagues Against Virtually Everything) we need to get them gently to stand to one side. We need to change what we do and how we do it.
Right thumb on top and your sexy.
Left thumb on top you are sneaky.
Sneaky Sexy if neither
3D Google Tour of Ancient Rome
1 comment:
Great words of wisdom. Hit a chord with me instantly, in particular:
"how do we get social learning more formally into the curriculum. The better you get along with people the more employable you will be..."
Something I hear more and more of now from employers. Exam passes are becoming less important in some job areas. Employers are looking for other skills - skills we currently do not assess.
"We need project based learning, collaborative learning, service learning and socially networked learning - we need courageous learning - "
We need a system that allows us to be that brave. Shifting the culture in schools away from a spoon-fed, exam-driven system to one geared for real learning will mean a possible drop in performance for a few years as the pupils adjust. Are schools brave enough to take this risk? Will the system allow them to take that risk by ignoring short-term factors?
"you need to be a rookie every year - to get out of your comfort zone and this will keep your neurons tuned."
Totally agree. I try to approach each lesson as if it were the first time I've taught it. Content may be the same, but the class is different. The lesson should be centred around the pupils. It should suit their style of learning.
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