Capability development- Engage , Enliven , Excite

This article give us a great look at "company culture", the overall personality of the company, and why it is significant. Basically, it shows how culture conflicts with different resources and traits significant to the company. Some of these traits are essential to all companies and is broken down to the company's ethics.

This is a perfect example of where you can find acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism (especially assimilation) applied to the real world, where we can find a large diversity of examples of how this takes place in major companies and organizations.

If culture correlates with:
Recruitment
Onboarding
Retention
Ambassadorship
Retirement

How do you ensure an effective, encompassing strategy that entrenches your culture?

Dr. Bernard Bull is Assistant Vice President of Academics for Continuing and Distance Education & Associate Professor of Education at Concordia University Wisconsin.

In 1888, John Milton Gregory published The Seven Laws of Teaching, providing instruction on what contributes to being an effective teacher.  While this list is over a hundred years old, most readers today will resonate with this list of laws. This is one of a dozen or so books that I try to read each year.  It is a short read that one can usually finish in a few hours.  As I picked up the book to read again today, I started to think about these laws in terms of self-directed learning, rewriting the laws from a self-directed learning perspective (which, by the way, fits nicely with law #7).  

Below is the original list of “elements” from which Gregory devised his seven laws.  Using these as a starting point, I revised them to create the seven elements of a self-directed learner, adding one additional item that did not seem to have adequate emphasis in Gregory’s original list (although it is embedded within several of them).

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Coaching

This could be helpful for an educator as a checklist when developing a lesson plan to ensure that the way the lesson is set out and implemented builds on a students ability to a become self directed learner.

To be a fearless, 360 leader you have to step outside of your comfort zone. The experience provides the opportunity for growth! #leadupchat #edchat #mschat 

Vygotsky talked of the Zone of Proximal Development, and this article is in line with that foundational philosophy about learning.  When we think about improving schools, both of Vygotsky and this article apply.  We need leaders, teachers, and students operating outside their comfort zone, taking risks, setting goals, and learning.  There is a danger in struggling schools to push too hard and move buying the productive zone for learning.  This article speaks well to that aspect of learning.  With good intentions, leaders at building, district, and state level often push a school and omits staff beyond the productive learning zone into the danger zone.  This is done through programs, initiatives, and monitoring often with the goal of providing support, but with the result of overwhelming the school and staff.  

Muy interesante.  

Nice interactive effect with the mouse over.

Great tool for teachers.  We must make students aware of their thinking processes so they can use them strategically and develop them fully

Curation is a great way to build your Personal Learning Network. Would like to get a little bit better with it.

Curation is also a great form of DIY professional development. 

If you don't curate content already, you may find this interesting.

Great summary of Working Aloud from Sahana.

Review of classic text foe Working Out Loud.

Why "Social Learning" should stay linked to MOOCs ?

Indeed, social activities should be learnt in a social way, not in teacher-student way in a classroom or in a MOOC.

I'm not sure though why the author talks about modern (not social) versus original (social) MOOCs. Both exist at the same time and the social aspect mostly depends on the skills taught.

Changing or transforming any system especially in education is not an easy thing to do. If you are part of a system that most of us grew up in and are used to, it doesn't take much to keep your school or district from moving to a successful Personalized Learning System. The change process is so complex that even if you agree and are working on transforming the system, there may be one piece of the puzzle that is missing that keeps change from happening.

This visual from Sylvia Duckworth makes it easy for us to interpret and evaluate the change process that is referred to at the bottom of this post. These images visualize the reactions people have during the change process. If the leadership team and others working on transforming their system, they can monitor and consider what needs to be done to get a derailed changed strategy back on track.