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(This is a text summary of the He Said She Said podcast from March 2, 2006. This is a weekly podcast that deals with a wide range of topics on Education and Educational Technology. The show’s host is Rob Reynolds and he is joined by Susan Smith Nash. A new He Said She Said podcast is available every week on Xplana Radio.) Continue reading ‘He Said She Said — Putting Creativity Back in Education — Part 1′

One of the things my father disliked intensely was the “blame game.” You know how it works. Something doesn’t go quite the way you planned, or you weren’t able to live up to the promises you made, so you do the easy thing and blame someone or something else for the failure. My father had a way of sensing an oncoming attack of the blame game from a mile off. No sooner had the words, “But Dad, you don’t understand, ______ (fill in the name of any other person here) did…” come out of my mouth than he would launch into a stern lecture about responsibility and the fact that he didn’t care about what _______ had done. He was only concerned about me, he said, and my ability to be accountable for the things I could control. Continue reading ‘Eschewing the Blame Game — Taking Responsibility for Our Failures and Successes’