George Couros is a principal focused on innovative teaching and learning. The document discusses creating a compelling vision for the future of education and making meaningful connections with students. It emphasizes focusing on relationships, embracing change, and teaching students for tomorrow's world instead of yesterday's. The goal is to inspire learning by making it exciting and allowing students to pursue their passions using technology and by connecting their interests to classroom topics.
3. âTransformational leaders don't start by
denying the world around them. Instead, they
describe a future they'd like to create instead.â
Seth Godin
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15. âIf you don't like change,
you're going to like
irrelevance even less.â
General Erick Shinseki
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19. âThe Interwebs (slang) allow students to take
their learning into their own hands and give it
life, meaning and apply their passion to what
ever they choose....
But the question is, are the schools
teaching for yesterday or tomorrow?â
67. "Create a compelling vision,
one that takes people to a new place, and
then translate that vision into a reality." Warren G. Bennis
68. vision
Parkland School Division is a place
where exploration, creativity and
imagination make learning exciting
and where all learners aspire to
reach their dreams.
73. 4 Guiding Questions For Your IT Department
What is best for kids?
How does this improve learning?
If we were to do _________, what is the balance of
risk vs. reward?
Is this serving the few or the majority?
74. âFreedom is actually a
bigger game than power.
Power
is about what you can
control.
Freedom
is about what you can
unleash.â
Harriet Rubin
90. âLearning is creation, not
consumption.
Knowledge is not
something a learner
absorbs, but something a
learner creates.â
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100. âThey have to be interactive
producers, not isolated
consumers.â
John Seely Brown
102. Our job in education is not to control talent,
but to help find and unleash it.
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105. How long did it take to
film and edit?
I started in November, but
then I had to start from
scratch a couple months
afterwards, so I spent
months and months on it.
Whatâs your
background in video
editing?
I just do it for fun. Iâm
self-taught.
106. âThere are intrapreneurs who bring
significant innovative changes from
within an organization.â
(Swearingen, 2008)