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K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff,
as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather
here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change:
The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs:
I've written previously on how your resume is meaningless, on building career security, not job security and on the rise of personal branding. To summarize the overarching themes of those three posts quickly:
Your work should be working for you, building your reputation, not locked away in a resume.
A resume proves nothing, a living case study proves everything.
Creating a name for yourself in your industry provides you the ultimate freedom: career security.
The tools exist for you to influence your industry in deep ways to make positive change and carve out a name for yourself.
Building your personal network enables incredible connections with the world around you not previously possible.
A blog is the ideal avenue to accomplish all of this and so much more.