On Wisconsin.

Dan Meyer…

Every time you tell a teacher to download a new application or set up an account with a new web application, the teacher loses a fingertip.

Something to think about for the 2010-2011 school year.  #savethefingertips

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A touch more on the serious side…

My suspicion, also, is that education will improve fastest when teachers recognize the incongruity between their own most exhilarating learning experiences and what goes on in their classrooms.

How do you create the time and space to learn?

Sir Ken Robinson…

It’s about customizing them [conditions in which learning will flourish] to your circumstances, and personalizing education to the people you are actually teaching. It’s not about scaling a new solution, it’s about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support, based on a personalized curriculum.

Whenever somebody brings “scale” into the conversation it’s meant to obfuscate possibilities into some mathematical realm in which the result is, inevitably, “this won’t scale”. That’s why movements are more interesting.

Understand the important role of “follower” in 3 minutes.

Now comes the first follower with a crucial role: he publicly shows everyone how to follow. Notice the leader embraces him as an equal, so it’s not about the leader anymore – it’s about them, plural. Notice he’s calling to his friends to join in. It takes guts to be a first follower! You stand out and brave ridicule, yourself. Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire.

Derek Sivers

Hat tip to Chris Sessums.

Heaven.

Now with rich text editing goodness.

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