cold Friday thoughts (again)

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There is a response to the Kaplan University ad. Dr. Punya Mishra, of Michigan State University has edited a cool retort:



Explore, create, share!


If you have not seen the Kaplan University ad, you can view it here:



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JJL has come to an end

Rosa Say has posted on the Joyful Jubilant Learning blog announcing that the site is ending.

I left the following as a comment on the last post (I added some formating and links here that I did not do there):

I must confess the thought, the fact, that JJL is ending is not doing down too well. As I just tweeted

RT @JJLhui Learning Healthy and Joyful Endings http://bit.ly/aoKzEn “game over” for JJL; for the site, yes, for learning, no!

When those of us together on the Team Synergy blog recognized the end, we had achieved synergy and it was enough for that time.

I have always felt JJL was different. The archives of posts and comments show proof of that. We have learned so much here, and yet we have so much more to learn. That JJL is ending, for the moment, is the lesson I will be struggling to understand.

I found that my good friend William Shakespeare did once compose a sherku:

Parting is
Such sweet sorrow
That I shall say
Good night till it be
Tomorrow

I’ll see you all around. Good night, good night, good night…

join the Reading Odyssey!

Many of us have a certain passion for reading and sharing about what we have read, so you maybe interested in this site I just found: http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/

Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit dedicated to helping adults reengage their intellectual curiosity through reading and discussing some of the best books and ideas.

Many of their events provide for registration for an 'in person' experience as well as a teleconference, via web or Skype.

You can view their Eventbrite calendar and register here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/248197304?s=1215399

The series is looking to promote discussion around the 150th anniversary of Darwin's publication of the Origin of Species.

Join their Facebook group here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123

what lever can move education forward?

Dr Scott McLeod has a series of posts underway on addressing the educational future for Iowa's students. You could substitute Franklin, MA for Iowa, or your community for Iowa and these posts would be just as relevant if not more so.

This video clip is from the first in the series. I do recommend reading each of them. How does your community measure up to meeting the needs of developing your children to live in the new world of technology?

Dr Scott McLeod's web site can be found here

Knowledge networks

I am on the ad-hoc Mentor Steering committee at work. I had the opportunity to met with others of like interest around mentoring on my recent Denver trip and picked up this link to three key skills for survival today and forward.

• Knowledge synthesis: This, in fact, is the skill of the future. With search technologies bringing us more information than we can possibly assimilate into productive action, we are more in need of the ability to merge concepts into a new, comprehensive understanding.

• On-demand learning: This is pivotal to fulfilling the knowledge-sharing needs of today’s top executives. To meet the demand, successors require highly tuned skills in cultivating multiple developmental relationships concurrently, and they need the freedom to access mentor resources.

• Global reach: This is essential for commanding mastery of top enterprises. The Web can bring the world to our desktops, yet many people still rely solely on temporary cross-cultural assignments to build this awareness. It is possible for successors to have diverse cross-cultural relationships without leaving their offices.

The full context for these three bullets can be found here.

How do these talk to you? Do you agree or disagree?

Curious to know. Drop me a line to explore further.