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21 Aug 09

The 21st Century environment is all about change. Since technology is moving so quickly, we have to learn to deal with change on a regular bases.

01 Aug 09

Education Innovation: Idea Killer B.I.N.G.O.

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08 Jul 09

25 Incredible TED Talks for Educators - Learn-gasm

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07 Jul 09

5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies

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What’s in it for you as an instructor, and what’s in it for your students?
Reason No. 1: Professional Development
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- to be aware of what the Internet has to offer
- Reason No. 2: The Power To Engage
- Internet tools can be fun! Internet tools are interactive! What a great way to engage students in the classroom. Many of the tools are collaborative, and they are all hands-on.
- Reason No 3: Students Use Them Already
- Many students use Internet tools on a regular basis. If you use some of them in the classroom, you will be talking to them in their language.
- Reason No. 4: It’s Not Going Away (It Will Only Grow)
- It isn’t going away. It isn’t a fad. It’s only going to grow and evolve. It’s already woven into the fabric of the daily lives of millions of people.
- Reason No. 5: Businesses Want to Hire Workers Who Understand The Internet
- Businesses want to hire workers who understand the Internet.
  - So it's essential that educators understand it well enough to use it effectively and model this for their students. - on 2009-07-07
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- What I am suggesting is that you learn a little about the many different kinds of tools that are out there (many of which are free or very low cost) and give a few a trial run. Online interactive whiteboards, Wikis, virtual worlds, workgroup tools, mind mapping, collaborative documents, the list just goes on and on, and the potential is endless. You owe it to yourself and your students to be informed, to participate, and to embrace the opportunities.

02 Jul 09

Changing minds and persuasion -- How we change what others think, believe, feel and do

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01 Jul 09

Change techniques

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Boiling the frog: Incremental changes may
well not be noticed.
- Make the changes very quietly and slowly without telling anyone, so each small change is hardly noticeable. For example:
  
  * Make temporary changes that become long-term.
  * Slip things in whilst people are distracted elsewhere.
  * Bury changes in larger items.
  * Gradually isolate unwanted people and organizations. - on 2009-07-01
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Evidence for change: Cold, hard data to show
need for change.
- Find evidence that supports the need for change.
  Use surveys and similar data to show need for change. - on 2009-07-02
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- Evidence stream: Show them time and
  again that the change is happening.
  - This can be done on a small-scale for many users - show them how far they've come to encourage them to continue evolution. - on 2009-07-02
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- Education: Learn them to change.
  - Provide training to support the change. - on 2009-07-02
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- First steps: Make it easy to get going.
  - Step-sheets, cheat-sheets, easy instructions, hand-holding... - on 2009-07-02
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- Institutionalization: Building
  change into the formal systems and structures.
  - Make it part of how we do business. - on 2009-07-02
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- Involvement: Give them an important role.
  - Especially important with potential nay-sayers and those with more valued opinions. - on 2009-07-02
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19 Jun 09

The 10 Questions Every Change Agent Must Answer - Bill Taylor - HarvardBusiness.org

Indeed, when it comes to creating the future, the only thing more worrisome than the prospect of too much change may be too little change — especially in an economy where there are too many competitors chasing too few customers with products and services that look too much alike. Now is the time to rethink long-held strategic assumptions inside your company, to challenge decades of conventional wisdom in your industry, and to push yourself to learn, grow, and innovate.

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1. Do you see opportunities the competition doesn't see?
"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes."
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- Today, the middle of the road is the road to ruin. What are you the most of?
- 4. If your company went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and why?
- worth taking seriously as a guide to what really matters.
- 5. Have you figured out how your organization's history can help to shape its future?
- The most creative leaders I've met don't disavow the past. They rediscover and reinterpret what's come before as a way to develop a line of sight into what comes next.
- 6. Can your customers live without you?
- "Can you imagine a world without this product?" One of the make-or-break challenges for change is to become irreplaceable in the eyes of your customers
- 7. Do you treat different customers differently?
- one test of how committed a company is to its most important customers is how fearless it is about ignoring customers who aren't central to its mission.
- 8. Are you getting the best contributions from the most people?
- Tapping this genius requires a new leadership mindset — enough ambition to address tough problems, enough humility to know you don't have all the answers.
- 9. Are you consistent in your commitment to change?
- 10. Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?
- How do you push yourself as an individual to keep growing and evolving — so that your company can do the same?

28 Dec 08

The Heart of Innovation: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating

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31 Jul 08

The 8 Step Change Process

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25 Jun 08

Sun Small and Medium Business - Guy Kawasaki on Innovations

Ariane de Bonvoisin is the founder and CEO of The First Thirty Days, Inc. This company runs a website that helps people "find the positive in any change" in their lives. She has worked for the Boston Consulting Group, BMG, and Sony Music. In this interview she explains the importance of embracing change and how to do it. She recently published a book called The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More)...

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Change is the only constant in life - the one thing that is guaranteed to happen.
Everyone you meet is either struggling with a change, secretly wants to make a change, or is helping someone else through a change.
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- The way you approach change is a mirror for the way you deal with life: with your work, you're loved ones, and yourself.
  - So, what does it mean when I prefer to jump into change, usually before many even realize it's coming? - on 2008-06-25
  - So, what does it mean when I like to jump into change, usually before others realize it's coming? - on 2008-06-25
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- it's essential to focus on what might be good about the change and to begin to ask yourself better questions.
  - So focus on the positive to survive everything else? - on 2008-06-25
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- Know that there is a part of you that doesn't change, even when everything around you is transitioning. Find the time to connect with this part of yourself.
- there are nine principles that make people good at change:
- They have a positive belief about change and are generally optimistic.
- They believe in the change guarantee: that something good always comes from change.
- They know that they possess a "change muscle"--that they are strong, capable, powerful, and intuitive enough to handle any change that comes into their lives or that they want to initiate.
- They refuse to become paralyzed by "change demons"--negative emotions that arise during change.
- They don't resist change--choosing instead to accept the reality of their situation.
- They understand that their thoughts, the words they say and the feelings they allow themselves to experience during change have a direct affect on how easily they move through the transition.
- They believe that life has a deeper meaning than what can easily be seen or felt, that something greater is at play, and that no change is arbitrary.
- They surround themselves with a support team to help them move through change.
- They refuse to get stuck during change. They keep moving and take care of themselves mentally, physically, and emotionally.
- The "change muscle" remembers everything that you've been through and gets stronger with every change that you experience.
- Focus on what you can control when times are uncertain: your thoughts, your beliefs, your health, your self-esteem, and the people you choose to surround yourself with. And make an effort to find your core strength; the part of you that won't be shaken when everything around you is changing. Do some spiritual searching to access this part of yourself.
- Those who struggle with change also:
  
  Hide and think they are alone--they don't ask for help.
  Place their trust in sources outside of themselves when they should be listening to their intuition.
  Become busy and distracted instead of making time to get quiet and mindful.
  Take too much action or not enough.
  Move slowly through change because they think it will be less painful. I call this using a butter knife instead of a butcher knife--sometime change requires you to cut directly to the heart of the situation.
  Compare themselves to others.

12 Apr 08

How to Shift? | Lessons Learned

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28 Mar 08

21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift

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Rather in an era that is not about precision or predetermined ways of doing things- we need to adopt a anticipative approach, not a prescriptive approach.The great thing about this shift is that even if we get some of it wrong-- (and we surely will) that those wrong approximations in and of themselves will help to create climate to support the needed shifts.
I am going to attempt to give you principles (not how to prescriptive steps) by which to guide your why approach to managing the needed changes in your schools and school systems.
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- Long-term transformational change has four primary aspects: scale (the change affects all or most of the school), magnitude (the degree to which it challenges the
  status quo), duration (the change is incremental at first and then moves to exponential), and
  strategic importance (how ready the culture is for adapting to change). Yet schools will only see significant change when the
  change occurs first at the level of the individual educational leader- be that principal, superintendent, or teacher. Real change, transformational change happens when there is personal ownership of the new technologies and concepts. Today's new economy is all about human capital, which starts with the educators in a school and then extends outward to all members of the school community.
- 1. People before Things (or test scores)
- Trust will be developed overtime within the local community under an effective community leader. Once that happens, the community will become self-directed in how they help others through the change, and the leadership in the learning community will become shared.
- 2. Start at the Top
- Which means- the
  leaders must do more than talk a good game. They themselves must embrace the new approaches first, both to
  challenge and to motivate the rest of the faculty. They develop their own online voice and model the desired behaviors.
- 3. Everyone is a Player in the Change Game
- At each layer of your school, create professional learning teams with leaders who have a shared vision and are motivated to make
  change happen and understand how the change relates to their area of influence and control.
- 4. Garner Buy-in
- Teachers and leaders who champion the change need to be able to articulate why and what they believe, as well as why it is in the best interest of children.
- 5. Can't Give Away What You Do Not Own
- Ownership is often best created by involving people in identifying potential problems and crafting solutions- which happens naturally in a community of practice.
- 6. Communicate and Often
- The best change programs reinforce
  core messages through regular, timely advice that is both inspirational
  and practical. Often this will
  require overcommunication through multiple, redundant channels.
- 7. Know Your Culture and Predict Possible Impact
- making it critically important that leaders understand and
  account for culture and behaviors at each level.
- 8. Expect the Unexpected
- Data driven decision-making will help inform your strategies somewhat, but realize along the way that much of this is so new- that we do not know what we do not know.
- 9. As the Individual Grows so Will the Collective Wisdom of the Community
- But the truth is- so much of this change is emergent that we simply do not know how to answer these important questions. To quote Peter Vaill,"... it as if we are all in constant whitewater."
  - Reminds me of my former principal - Tom LeCloux - on 2008-03-28
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- But in the 21st Century, bottom line is that relationships are all that matter.

06 Jan 08

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Home

It could be video games. Bioengineering. Or health care. All of these forces and more are explored on the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and Institute for the Future 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education.

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21 Dec 07

Technology and Change

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20 Dec 07

Changing minds and persuasion -- How we change what others think, believe, feel and do

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