30-Day Challenge – Day 22 – Asking the Wrong Questions

This 30-Day Challenge has been intellectually stimulating for me.  Enoch Hale challenged us to ask “out-of-the-box” questions about teaching and learning…which is fun in some ways and very challenging in other ways.  It has definitely not led (for me) to “the same old thinking.” Our hallway conversations have been just as fun…and have focused on… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 22 – Asking the Wrong Questions

30-Day Challenge – Day 21 – Crazy Teaching Practices

Ilya Pozin, founder of Open Me and Ciplex, and a columnist for Inc, Forbes and LinkedIn, had an article  in LinkedIn called “15 Crazy Best Practices That Really Work.” Ilya noted that for entrepreneurs, conventional wisdom does not always work, especially in the disruptive market today.  He posted 15 “crazy ideas” from fellow entrepreneurs who… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 21 – Crazy Teaching Practices

30 Day Challenge – Day 14 – Competing Fantasies

Divergent thinking typically comes out of  annual SXSW conference.  Earlier this month, the conference featured Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction author, as a keynoter.  Bruce used a phrase from his and Jon Lewbowsky’s  State of the World 2012 post that he had previously used…and which got a bit of buzz: “The Future Is About… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 14 – Competing Fantasies