The Learning Leader - Quote #1

From The Learning Leader page 91 under the heading Challenging Educational Mythology:
In a profession that prides itself on rationality, education is strongly awash in mythology. Often the mythology has a tinge of truth or whisper of research, lending suficient credibility for a sound bite, but not enough evidence to sustain scrutiny.
The stories we need [...]

A Whole New Mind — Thoughts

I just finished “A Whole New Mind” by Dan Pink. He suggests that in the Conceptual Age (what he thinks we are entering after the information age), we will need more Right Brain based skills: Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning. He describes how feeling professions such as nursing are growing at large [...]

More on the Public/Private Mashup of Life

This is a response to the following thread: Faculty with personal blogs, web pages, MySpace pages, etc
Arvind and Jason and everyone else… thanks for the wonderful exchange.
My internal conflict right now is what personal and what is private. I was reading A Whole New Mind on the way to work this morning, I finished [...]

Week in Review…

What a crazy few weeks…. Things at home have been nuts. Tara had a trial yesterday so she was been working after the kids went to bed every night for the last week. Last night was the first night I had more that 5 continuous hours of sleep in probably 4 weeks. [...]

Interactive Webcasting at WebcastAcademy.net

A few weeks ago I signed up to be a Webcast Academy intern. Thanks to Jeff Lebow, Dave Cormier, Doug Symington and Konrad Dwojak, I can now run an Interactive Webcast.
Arvind Grover and I did our first Webcast today. We discussed our backgrounds, and what type of topics we would like to cover in [...]

Webcasting at the Podcasting Academy Conference

On Friday and Saturday, I followed the Podcast Academy at Boston University, via Jeff Lebow from Educational Bridges. Jeff and his partner Doug Symington (in the studio) webcast the conference live. Jeff interviewed participants and attendees via his cell phone live during the breaks. The surprise of folks he was interviewing when he told them [...]