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Thursday, December 16, 2004
Better practices 
| | My intent in what I do is to move the practice of teaching into an environment that resembles medicine. Where practices and procedures are shared, and the language to discuss them is also shared. Where all practices and procedures can and will be tailored to meet specific situations, even though practitioners work hard to maintain high standards and transparency in what they do. |
| | This sounds kind of silly, I know. But what we've got know is a hodge-podge of ideas and practices, teachers working in isolation in individual classrooms, and very little way to begin to straighten out and share the best practices and language to describe it. |
| | I'd start by purging the vocabulary of manufacture, and the conceptual framework that produces it: the notion, for example, that we are "products" of our education; and that the best education is "delivered" by a "system" of some kind. |
Frontiers of personal space
| | Euan Semple vs. The Road Rager: I don't think he anticipated an unshaven, 6'3", 16 stone Scotsman with an extensive vocaulary being prepared to engage with him on at least equal terms. |
Getting more than their money's worth, too
| | Fred Sampson: ...although we have not come up with a preferable term to "user experience," I am not merely a user. Nor, dear employer, am I "human capital." You don't own me; you rent me. |
Living in the Lever Age
| | Trudy Schuett: Blogging kind of reminds me of the 1849 California Gold Rush. A few miners struck it rich, most lost their shirts, but the people who really made out were the storekeepers, the hoteliers, the tailors, the wagon makers. In short, those who made it possible for the miners to go up into the mountains and do their thing. It was those people who built the foundations of the California of today. |
| | Yep. We're talking here about Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Theodore Judah, to name a few of the names that came to grace hotels, universities, banks and streets. Because of gold, those guys got rich. Because of their enterprise, the railroads grew. Because of the railroads, California grew. Because of California, the country grew.Because of those riches, the world progressed. Of course, lots of people made money with gold, with banks, with railroads, and with fruit, nuts, entertainment, technology and other developments that grew out of California's soil, railroads, hotels, banks and universities. |
| | The same is happening with blogs. Lots of people will make money with blogs. But many more will also make money because of blogs. |
| | We're talking about leverage here. Blogs are great levers. But jeez, is money the only measure, or the only point, of anything? Money is just one measure of leverage. Since a lot of us bloggers need money, it's a Big Deal, sure. But it's not the only deal. And if it was, most of us wouldn't bother. |
| | If you're only following the money, you're missing the fulcrum. |
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