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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Chaos by design - October 2, 2006 - 0 views

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    Article in Fortune about Google and innovation Story of Sheryl Sandberg "Take the case of Sheryl Sandberg, a 37-year-old vice president whose fiefdom includes the company's automated advertising system. Sandberg recently committed an error that cost Google several million dollars -- "Bad decision, moved too quickly, no controls in place, wasted some money," is all she'll say about it -- and when she realized the magnitude of her mistake, she walked across the street to inform Larry Page, Google's co-founder and unofficial thought leader. "God, I feel really bad about this," Sandberg told Page, who accepted her apology. But as she turned to leave, Page said something that surprised her. "I'm so glad you made this mistake," he said. "Because I want to run a company where we are moving too quickly and doing too much, not being too cautious and doing too little. If we don't have any of these mistakes, we're just not taking enough risk." When a million-dollar mistake earns a pat on the back, it's obvious this isn't your normal corporation."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Embracing Failure: The Value of Sharing Mistakes: Associations Now - 0 views

  • he events are “a chance to reflect on bad decisions, missed opportunities, episodes of poor execution, and pivots that never paid off,”
  • t was difficult to get leaders to put their names on a tactical miscue.
  • Make it collective.
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  • Make it upbeat.
  • No humblebragging. I
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    value of admitting and learning from mistakes in executive and group situations--easier said than done
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

8 LinkedIn Etiquette Mistakes - The BrainYard - InformationWeek - 0 views

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    Slide program by Donston-Miller on LinkedIn mistakes, February 25, 2013 Relevant to our e-literacy fundamentals
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Mark Cuban: The Big Mistake You Don't Know You're Making on Social Media | Inc.com - 0 views

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    Very scary video (4 minutes) by Mark Cuban on how privacy is violated because digital history is retained forever. Inc. How ownership shifts from author to recipient who may misuse it in any # of ways. Of course, Cuban is developing erasure apps that delete texts after a certain amount of time. Talks about tweets in particular. Unfollowing people who could be sending wrong message.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Networking mistakes you're making - Business Insider - 0 views

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    a good article by Natalie Walters at Business Insider on how not to network--good ideas
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Failure Bow: Matt Smith at TEDx Bellevue - YouTube - 0 views

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    video by Matt Smith in a Tedx Bellevue conference, published on YouTube in December 2012 on how we blame and shame ourselves for our mistakes instead of taking a failure bow, learning, and moving on to succeed the next time. (12 minutes)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

BBC - The Virtual Revolution Blog: What are we thinking? Cognition and attention in the... - 0 views

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    An article for BBC by Maggie Jackson, September 2009, about our inability to pay attention in an age driven by speed through technology "Still, I'm worried. These digital age wonders will be squandered if we can't think critically, research well, and evaluate the data-floods we now have at our fingertips - and these are precisely the skills alarmingly lacking among both digital natives and older generations. Half of college students can't judge the objectivity of a website. Workers now switch tasks every three minutes, half the time interrupting themselves. As David Nicholas points out, we spend our time online 'power-bouncing' from info-snippet to data-point. And this propensity to rely on point-and-click, first-up-on-Google answers, along with our growing unwillingness to wrestle uncomfortably with nuances or uncertainties, keeps us stuck on the surface of the 'information' age. We're too often sacrificing depth for breadth in the ways we make sense of the world. Yes, we've always had 'power bouncing' and distraction. And surfing or multitasking may have an important place in 21st-century society as strategies of learning. But going forward, we need to do much more than hopscotch across the web, split-focused and pulled this way and that by choice distractions. We cannot mistake fragmented, diffused attention as avenues of higher thought. Instead, we need to do better at cultivating - perhaps resuscitating? - deep focus, keen awareness and meta-cognitive 'executive' attention - the skills crucial to creativity and problem-solving. "
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

ISTE | 6 project-management tips for PBL - 0 views

  • 1. Make a digital home for projects in a learning management system (LMS). This type of digital organizer is somewhat similar to the tools, such as Microsoft Sharepoint, that PMs use in the work world. For class projects, an LMS can act as a container and organizer that supports team communication and collaboration, the project calendar, assignments, polls, journals or blogs, grading, and other resources and materials. The New Tech Network of PBL-focused schools uses a proprietary LMS called Echo. Another PBL-focused platform to consider is Project Foundry. More general LMSs include Schoology, Edmodo and Google Classroom. Chalkup has a rubric builder built into it. Or, if a minimal project organizer will do, consider constructing a wiki. A simple wiki site such as Google Sites or Wikispaces might be all a class needs.
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    first tip is to find a digital home for projects in a LMS but it can be as simple as Google Sites or Wikispaces instead of Schoology or Edmodo or Google Classroom. 2. make sure everyone has anytime, anywhere access 3. set your support structures 4. turn the work over to the workers 5. track student progress and offer guidance when needed 6. learn from your mistakes
Lisa Levinson

Web Tools Blog Series: Tools to Help Students Collaborate | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Edutopia blog on web tools to help students collaborate. Some fun principles for collaboration including: shut up and listen; action beats inaction; there are no mistakes. Worth viewing the old Carol Burnett show YouTube with Tim Conway.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Made Ben Bradlee a Great Leader: Associations Now - 0 views

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    a good article exploring Ben Bradlee's real leadership skills, by Mark Athitakis, October 27, 2014. Main Points: Never forget talent when you see it, and nurture it. Fight the good fight for diversity. Call shenanigans when necessary. Weather mistakes. Hire good people and let them do good work.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Are You Making These 7 Mistakes with Your About Page? | Copyblogger - 0 views

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    Interesting blog about About website pages
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Family-Friendly Policy That's Friendliest to Male Professors - The New York Times - 0 views

  • They have advanced the careers of male economists, often at women’s expense
  • The central problem is that employment policies that are gender-neutral on paper may not be gender-neutral in effect.
  • Succeed within seven years and you have a job for life. Fall short, and you’re fired.
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  • The policies led to a 19 percentage-point rise in the probability that a male economist would earn tenure at his first job. In contrast, women’s chances of gaining tenure fell by 22 percentage points. Before the arrival of tenure extension, a little less than 30 percent of both women and men at these institutions gained tenure at their first jobs. The decline for women is therefore very large.
  • They found that men who took parental leave used the extra year to publish their research, amassing impressive publication records. But there was no parallel rise in the output of female economists.
  • ng birth is not a gender-neutral event,” recalling that during her pregnancy, “I threw up every day.” She argued, “Policies that are neutral in the eyes of a lawyer are not neutral in fact.”
  • Better policies could help economics — not to mention the sciences and other fields — look like less of a boys’ club.
  • Three female economists have shown that the tools of economics — which enable a careful assessment of incentives and constraints informed by real-world data — suggest that a more nuanced policy would lead to better outcomes. It leaves me wondering how many other policy mistakes we could avoid, if only we had more female economists.
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    informed assessment/report by Justin Wolfers, NYTimes, on how extending parental leave policies cause unintended impacts
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED Talk | ... - 0 views

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    distinguishes between learning and performance zones
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Reality Check Reveals Ed-Tech Challenges - Education Week - 0 views

  • That, ultimately, is the challenge: to identify digitally driven, innovative practices that work and scale them up. Schools can look to a growing number of models to meet that challenge, as well as the lessons that can be learned from others' mistakes.
  • many schools are turning to open educational resources. They're convinced that the free, malleable, and shareable academic content offers advantages that traditional commercial materials cannot match.
  • administrators and teachers are learning to embrace the eclectic jumble of student-owned devices, in the belief that taking a flexible approach will benefit instruction.
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  • "Bring your own device," or BYOD, programs have also proved to be cost-effective and flexible options for 1-to-1 computing goals
  • "Learning to use the right tool for the right purpose that's a life skill."
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    article by Kevin Bushweller, June 10, 2015 in EdWeek, good guidance for adult ed programs and informal adult learning as well IMO.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why Celebrating Failure Breeds Innovation | Inc.com - 0 views

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    short blog post by Leigh Buchanan, editor at large for Inc. magazine on practice devised by NixonMcInnes (social media consultancy) on Church of Fail--very funny and agrees with something else I saw recently elsewhere on failure/admitting vulnerability. Here they applaud after all failures are confessed 1x a month.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Keys of Dealing with Workplace Conflict - 0 views

  • 2 major causes of conflict:
  • lack of information, poor information, no information, or misinformation.
  • Emotions: Another common mistake made in workplace communications which leads to conflict is letting emotions drive decisions.
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  • 1. Define Acceptable Behavior:
  • 2. Hit Conflict Head-on:
  • 3. Understanding the WIIFM Factor:
  • 4. The Importance Factor:
  • 5. View Conflict as Opportunity:
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    article by Mike Myatt on five Keys of Dealing with Workplace conflict, 2/22/12.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 powerful reasons to start saying 'No' - Freelancers Union - 0 views

  • “If you go to my rates page on my site, you’ll see I have a project minimum. I say ‘the typical project costs around this. The only reason that I show that is to keep people from contacting me, not to get them to contact me.” See? He says NO, before the question is even asked. “I think that’s a mistake freelancers make: if you’re thinking of sharing your rates as a means of saying ‘hey, i’m cheaper’, you’re gonna get the kind of work that is cheap and work with the kind of clients that are cheap”.
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    good statement by Steve Folland on when to say no, February 9, 2016
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Education World: Wire Side Chats: How Can Teachers Develop Students' Motivation -- and ... - 0 views

  • Teachers should focus on students' efforts and not on their abilities. When students succeed, teachers should praise their efforts or their strategies, not their intelligence. (
  • When students fail, teachers should also give feedback about effort or strategies -- what the student did wrong and what he or she could do now.
  • teachers should help students value effort.
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  • teach students to relish a challenge
  • keeping a balance between valuing learning and performance.
  • (a) valuing learning and challenge and (b) valuing grades but seeing them as merely an index of your current performance, not a sign of your intelligence or worth.
  • Work harder, avail yourself of more learning opportunities, learn how to study better, ask the teacher for more help, and so on.
  • They are very performance-oriented during a game or match. However, they do not see a negative outcome as reflecting their underlying skills or potential to learn. Moreover, in between games they are very learning-oriented. They review tapes of their past game, trying to learn from their mistakes, they talk to their coaches about how to improve, and they work ceaselessly on new skills.
  • Teaching students to value hard work, learning, and challenges; teaching them how to cope with disappointing performance by planning for new strategies and more effort; and providing them with the study skills that will put them more in charge of their own learning.
  • there is no relation between a history of success and seeking or coping with challenges.
  • praising students' effort had many positive effects.
  • We should praise the process (the effort, the strategies, the ideas, what went into the work), not the person.
  • By motivation, I mean not only the desire to achieve but also the love of learning, the love of challenge, and the ability to thrive on obstacles.
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    Interview with Carol Dweck on the role of motivation in learning, Education World
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Writing Skills | SkillsYouNeed - 0 views

  • when anyone can be their own publisher, we see more and more examples of poor writing skills both in print and on the web.  Poor writing skills create poor first impressions and many readers will have an immediate negative reaction if they spot a spelling or grammatical mistake
  • Writing in the Workplace
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    Skillsyouneed stresses good writing skills
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

8 Simple Phrases to Massively Improve Your Leadership | Inc.com - 0 views

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    post by Elle Kaplan in Inc. on leading language
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