Promotes that everyone is a teacher and everyone is a learner Teaches us to obtain information from certain people Is about exploring your passions and interests Is about finding information on something prescribed for you This chart is reprinted from a book entitled, The Innovator’s Mindset, by George Couros (2015).* It is a side-by-side comparison of what characterizes actual learning versus traditional schooling activities that may (or may not) yield student intellectual growth. If you need some inspiration as to what to write on this topic, the following chart should provide some food for thought. Hopefully, you’re all following me on Twitter by now – if not, now’s a great time to start.* My Twitter handle is and the hashtag for this conversation is #SOCSD2017(Which reminds me, your story has to be 120 characters or less). According to George Couros, “Technology will never replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of great teachers can be transformational.” For example, some people can have some very powerful learning experiences on Internet sites like Khan Academy, YouTube, and Twitter without ever having stepped foot in a classroom. In other words, a story about a time when you created your own content or answered your own question without having to rely upon someone to “feed” you information. Tell me about a time when you owned your own learning.What I would like to propose is this: Why don’t you tell me a story? After all, this tactic worked with my pre-school aged kids, it should work with the community at-large, right? I’ll give you some guidelines: on a Friday morning I’m sitting in the business center of a hotel in Pasadena, California and I don’t really have a tale to tell (well…I do, but I would much rather tell that to anyone who was willing to listen over a cup of coffee). SO…here is the context in which I am writing this weekly blog post: It’s 5:00 a.m. However, the two of my kids would never disappoint and hopefully, I managed to engage a part of their brains that enabled them to be as comfortable creating content as consuming content. On those nights where my imagination was flat, my paternalistic instincts would lead me to say, “hmmm…I’ve got a better idea, why don’t you tell ME a story?” I’d typically encounter a little resistance whenever I decided to switch from storyteller to story consumer (I’d make sure that I always listened actively, even after a tough day at work). Other nights, my creative juices just didn’t flow.
Some nights, it was easy to create a tale that somehow involved an impossible character in an impossible situation that he or she had to confront. When my children were little, each night before they went to sleep (except for that year I was in Afghanistan – that’s a topic for another blog) they would ask me, “Daddy, tell us a story, please?” It wasn’t so much of an ask as it was a demand because they knew, at a very early age, that I would faithfully execute my duties as a dad no matter what.
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