Month: April 2013

Tonight is the launch of #USedchat. This is an exciting opportunity to further strengthen the links between educational leaders.  Frequent users of Twitter are increasing their ability to leverage knowledge.  This current day and age is powerful if we choose to utilize the tools before us.  Twitter is quickly becoming a voice; we see it in every facet of life. As a matter of fact, I would go so far to say it is helping to reshape parts of our culture. During this time of rapid educational reform, leaders are connecting and becoming a common voice can help to reshape and possibly place guard rails on this journey. As educational leaders, we find each other in deep reflection but no longer living on a lonely island (thank you PLN!).

The build up to this launch demonstrates once again a movement occurring on twitter.  As you are reading this blog, you are probably one of those educational leads using twitter.  Thank you!  May I charge you to continue and bring others along the way!

Forbes recently ran an article on the power of twitter chats to impact business in monumental ways.  I love the image from the article.   Check it out here:

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/cherylsnappconner/files/2012/12/twitterpated-marketing2.jpg

Keep this discussion going!  Thank you for taking a minute and I will see you on twitter!

Please, come with me on a slow ramble of educational wonders…..
I wonder,…..I wonder if a student who receives an A the first quarter and an A the last quarter ever learned anything or maybe they were just simply proficient and never challenged?
I wonder, if the fast pace change speed of technology will ever hit a quiet pause?
I wonder, if the the most significant problem in the United States is consumer debt with a great majority of it tied to credit card overuse. Are we teaching our elementary students anything by having them pay for lunch with a PIN number or swipe card. What a teachable moment missed in the schoolhouse of learning for efficienty to feed. I wonder!
I wonder, if the university will ever listen to the school on the best way served to prepare future teachers.
I wonder, if the medical world will form a marriage with the educational world to appropriately prepare educators for the prereferal world of early learning disabilities and diagnostics.
I wonder, as we find discovery and change in a time of great educational reform we can relish that more passion is dedicated to the conversation of education and this is a good thing.
I wonder, how a seasoned veteran teacher can be the most savvy in technology and best practice and yet another season veteran teacher can see this as something the newbies should be good at?
I wonder, if someone who believes you don’t need a license to teach has ever taught.
I wonder, if the great public school schools of our day can compete when the market is creating hurdles that are higher and higher to jump in an unfairly marked race.
I wonder, if Clayton Christenson is correct when he says half of all universities will be bankrupt in 15 years.
I wonder, if we are preparing a current kindergartener correctly for the post high school world of 2025.
I wonder…if you wonder….