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1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

7.15.09 1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

This is the second edition of quotes we have complied to complement the philosophy that underpins our website www.leading-learning.co.nz We believe that the quotes provide unified collection of thoughtful ideas to transform education. It is often said that we are entering the 'Information Age' but we prefer to believe that we are entering an 'Age of Ideas, Talent and Creativity'. We present the quotes as part of on ongoing dialogue to give all who read them the courage to transform schools so as to meet the exciting challenges of the 21stC. One suggestion is to as a staff reflect on the quotes in any one section (or any selected quotes) and discuss what they might mean for your school. Others people select suitable quotes for school newsletters of school brochures and other school documents.

Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great. - Abdul Kalam

7.21.09 * The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. * A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive. * As I sat in my K Street office, Fred's life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it. * It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians. * Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it.... * The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker. * A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this. * In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don't think you'll see a yellow sign that says "Think Safety!" as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make. * Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open.

As John Maeda recently noted, the missing partner to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is IDEA (Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art). As a person who was trained on both sides and now works and plays across STEM and IDEA, I feel strongly that our education programs need to combine both in order to create the T-shaped people that can go out and make a difference in the world (Principle 6).

The tools are there, what we need now is more design education, more understanding about how to present information, and how to tell compelling, relevant stories that matter.

Learning Quotes The power of the ideal is in the practical Quote by Swami Vivekananda Explanation about quote on learning Bookish knowledge is of no use unless otherwise it is applied practically in the day to day life.

Learning Quotes The power of the ideal is in the practical Quote by Swami Vivekananda Explanation about quote on learning Bookish knowledge is of no use unless otherwise it is applied practically in the day to day life.  

""This is gym; we shouldn't have to teach writing." Mr. Thomas said he replied, "If you want to work at Brockton High, it's your job.""