This quote seems very Zen Buddhist to me and I think the image goes well with it. I don’t think this is about blending work and play, I think it’s about finding joy in everything you do, and if your work is also a joy, then it isn’t something you clock in and out of. I’m interested in what others think of this quote?
Photo, ‘Behind Buddha’, taken at the Famen Temple near Xi’an, China.
“At this point, we appear to have a 19th century curriculum, 20th century buildings and organizations and 21st century students facing an undefined future.”
’20th century organizations’ – We spend a lot of time discussing our out-dated curriculum, and about students graduating into an unknown work force… could things move faster if we paid a lot more attention to our organizational structures that perpetuate an out-dated education?
Related:
A pro-d session I did with Bruce Wellman, ‘Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry‘
and
Andy Hargreaves and the 4th Way ‘Part 1‘ and ‘Part 2‘.
Great quotes on CHANGE shared on George Couros’ blog.
“If teachers and students know ‘why’ then the change or the learning is meaningful…” Edna Sackson
“Change can be a lot of work too. Sometimes people also get frustrated when it seems that we constantly have to change, and then just as things are working, we need to change again.” Aviva Dunsinger
“Endless conversation about change is the barrier. Actually committing to doing something and then acting is what is required.” David Jakes
“When we have the autonomy to learn for ourselves and grow through our own desires, we can and will ultimately embrace change for what it needs to be…finding a better way of doing something.” Justin Tarte
“Put teachers together in an organized way, with clear objectives, and they’ll move mountains. Alone, the mountains are just too big!” David Truss
“…what if I build something, in this case a website on the way to building an entire movement, and wondering, and what if no one comes? That haunts me.” Miss Shuganah
“many others have seen “the newest and greatest” ideas come and go…….and to invest their time, (because it does take time) and their energy and also possible total rethinking of everything which was their foundation — has to have a reason.” Jennifer
“The best change comes as a result of individuals realizing they need to change. If we believe that teachers are the right people in the role, we need to help them realize this on their own and not because they feel forced. True change is internal.” Dean Shareski
“The change that is sustainable must be something that has a reason (answering the “why’) and something that everyone has a stake in. I can get one person to change, but can I make it systemic?” Pete Rodriguez
“It’s dangerous to think we are ever finished or have attained mastery….. which is contrary to everything we teach students by giving unit tests, by graduating them after ‘x’ number of hours, etc.” Julie Cunningham
“They (educators) need someone who has been in the trenches, slogged it out, and can share the good, the bad, the ugly about where they’re going. Too often they get someone who’s just done the research or the book learnin’. There’s no credibility there. They need to hear the war stories.“ Katherine Mann
“…my role is to be the force of change vs. having change forced on me.” Carrie Daniels
“Teachers do not fear changes that they believe in…it is those changes that are forced upon us that make us skeptical.” Kelly Alford
“It is not change that people fear, it is the transition between where they are and where they want to be.” Ian Cullion
“As a leader (any type of leader….not just administrator!) it is our job to help people find their way in this time of change. I for one, am excited and ready to go!” Melissa Dallinger
How am I ‘digitally’ interpreted?
