Quick, tell me how much you know about the people in the following list: Luvern L. Cunningham Barbara Jackson William L. Boyd Wayne Hoy Martha McCarthy Flora Ida Ortiz Jerry Starrat Cecil Miskel Catherine Marshall Karen Seashore Louis Maybe you recognize a few of those names? None? Well, those are the most recent recipients of [...]
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Tags: #leadershipday10, leadership, NCPEA, thought leaders, UCEA
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I just don’t know what exactly. So, mostly as stream of consciousness and in chronological order… *This started when Lisa Thumann tweeted about a keynote speaker at BLC ’10 who referred to the so-called “10,000 hour rule” for mastery or expertise. *I asked her if the speaker had a warrant for that knowledge claim beyond [...]
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Tags: crap detection, expertise, Gladwell, keynotes, presentations, research
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I’ve been working on a book review of DIY U by Anna Kamenetz to be published in the open access, peer-reviewed journal in education edited by Dr. Alec Couros (aka @courosa). At the same time, some folks initiated a “discussion” of the book through a Twitter chat. So, it occurred to me that I could/should [...]
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Think about *all* the implications that come from shifting our language from learn(ing) from to learn(ing) with. (and words matter, right David Jakes?) That’s the “shift” that has to happen. (apologies to Karl Fisch) That’s it. “Learning from” was often necessary when one party in the learning transaction(s) had greater access to information than the others. [...]
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Tags: learning, technology
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