Taking control of our learning and our work isn’t really a revolution. It’s more like a reset to the proper default position for the conceptual age. Harold Jarche Resetting Learning and Work
I’m lucky enough to be a member of the NYSAIS Think Tank convened this week to consider professional development and next steps and directions for NYSAIS to continue its extraordinary track record of support for our schools and the people in them. Twitter hashtag: #NYSAIStt11.
Among the assigned readings is Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google do? Along with WWGD? there’s the associated follow up question: How can schools become more googley?
To get some sense of the book here’s an intro video from the publisher. (There are other Jeff Jarvis presentations on line.)
So here are some of the key concepts of the Google model of doing business per Jeff Jarvis:
Not revolutionary ideas but they do provide a framework for discussion.
So how do we make schools more googley? Assuming that we might want to – it’s an interesting question.
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