I found Chris Brogan on Twitter. His market is business, but that’s where the action is. The problems that Education has with the 21st Century are being echoed in the economy. Old school business meets new wave technology and the results are often no prettier in the board room than the district office.
Creatives and Your Secret Mission : [chrisbrogan.com]
The point is, there’s what you take to be reality. There’s what you MAKE to be reality. The more you work on B, even if it’s your secret mission, the more you can grow your abilities, find ways to satisfy what you know is true, and move into bigger things.
There’s a resonance there between Education and Economy — between Art and Industry — and it’s embodied here. Mur Lafferty is an exceptionally talented producer of new media. As you look over that site, notice that it’s not just “me, me, me” but “us, wow, cool.” Not only does Mur “get it” — she uses it to her own advantage.
The question that you, as educators, need to answer is simple:
“How can I use my Third Wave Power of Creativity to help my students develop their own Third Wave Powers in spite of the Institute’s obstruction?”
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
While I think of what kinds of third wave powers I have, I do know that I now have a list of 11 different emails,gmails,IMs, with Twitter included. I certainly have became a tweet I guess, but how powerful is yet to be seen. Now I need to start reading more information instead of putting it into my gator and linking to everything I see. I will say that Chris Brogan’s picture was creative. This picture and thinking about how one could have a third wave presence reminded me of the movie about the teacher Ron Clark where the principal told him to act his age, and not like a 6th grader. The next scene showed him with a birthday hat on and a cake with his students. I think that the movie depicted someone that made a difference because he stuck to what he thought. I believe he has a book out that is Ron Clark’s 55 which is about his classroom management rules. Until I saw this movie, I thought that Harry Wong’s idea of everyone remembering things in threes or fours and having fewer rules was the best approach. I don’t know which is the best way, but I think it is encouraging to know that there is more than one way to be successful at managing a classroom because of someone’s creativity.