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Alan Levine posted a notice about an article over at Learning Circuits Blog today. The post in question has, as its premise, the statement, “schools hate businesses, businesses hate schools.” I left a comment there about the article, but would like to explore the importance of business/education partnerships a bit further in this post. My premise, by the way, is that our dreams for educational technology cannot be realized without healthy partnerships and respect between the two communities. Continue reading ‘We Need Each Other’

My dad had a saying that he’d always pull out when one of us would suggest a major change in the way the family did something. “Better to stick with what brung you,” he’d say. Continue reading ‘“Stick with What Brung You” — 10 Steps to Purely Creative Teaching’

I still remember my first valuable experience with learning groups as a student. I was in Mrs. Shenandoah’s sophomore English class at Round Rock High School. I was in a group with three other students and one of them, Lori Languell, turned out to be my future girlfriend (although that wasn’t necessarily a good thing). Continue reading ‘The New Spontaneity of Communities in Learning’

As a kid I spent my summers on a construction crew building things. Mostly we build modest houses, unimaginative, copycat cracker boxes that the public couldn’t seem to live without. We’d start at one end of a street in June and work our way down, slamming up prefabricated walls and pre-cut joists, all in an effort to build one house after another that looked the same. Indeed, I was a builder. Continue reading ‘Create vs. Build — Publishers and Their LMS Dilemma’