Shift Happens!

Don’t let this scare you.  Just be aware that constant learning has to be the way we GROW along with the change.

Kid Entrepreneur has web design business in his home.

Maryland high school senior and entrepreneur, Keenen Geter talks about his web design business. For more on youth entrepreneurs, watch Biz Kid$ (http://www.bizkids.com) a public TV series where kids teach kids about entrepreneurship.  Or visit the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

These Kids Mean Business: A PBS Documentary about Kids and Entrepreneurship

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page looks at the role of entrepreneurship education as a way to help change the lives of at-risk youth. Check out this preview for the 60-minute PBS special:  These Kids Mean Business.
I love his statement “The old thinking figured kids were too young to learn about entrepreneurship. [...]

Crystal O’Connor Interviews Angela Maiers with Maiers Education Services

Lemonade Day: Teaching Kids about Entrepreneurship

Lemonade Day introduces kids to entrepreneurship!  This city-wide event encourages kids to start a lemonade stand and sell their lemonade to the entire community.  Schools, community groups and businesses get involved to make this all happen.  Visit the website and click on your city to get more information and don’t forget to get involved with Lemonade [...]

Bored with 21st Century Skills? Get over It

By: Mike Sansone

Blogs and Social Media as Conversation Stations
I hear a lot of business people, teachers, educators — and some edubloggers — who are already tired of the term “21st Century Skills.”  Get over it!  The term is going to be around for a long, long time. The definition? Possibly ever-evolving.
I remember [...]

Don’t Teach your kids this stuff..Please??

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Don’t teach your kids this stuff. Please?
By Scott Mcleod, J.D, PH.D.

dear parent
teacher
administrator
board member
don’t teach your kids to read
for the Web
to scan
RSS
aggregate
synthesize

don’t teach your kids to write
online
pen and paper aren’t going anywhere
since when do kids need an audience?
no need to hyperlink
make videos
audio
Flash
no connecting, now
no social networking
or online chat
or comments
or PLNs
blogs and twitter?
how self-absorbed
what a bunch [...]

Turn a Spender into an Investor

By: Joann Kuster Seymour
Author, Financial Educator
Spending—rather than saving money—is a habit, especially for teens. According to surveys by Teenage Research Unlimited, the average teen has more than $104 a week to spend—five times more than their parents had.
Yet, today’s teens are less savvy about money, and most haven’t learned what to [...]

6 Lessons I’d Like to Teach my Children about Life

6 Lessons I’d like to teach my children about Life:
By Crystal O’Connor
1. Start thinking about what you want now.  Talk about your dreams and how you can start to make them happen.   Let the dream be as big as you’d like and never let anyone tell you it can’t be achieved.  If your dream helps [...]

How are Millionaires Made? by Joann Seymour Kuster

Joann Seymour Kuster
Author, Financial Educator
Much of a young person’s paycheck withers away, because most haven’t learned to pay themselves first. Saving and investing is not a habit yet. But it can become one. Learn to pay yourself as much as you can –invest and grow a nest egg for later.
You don’t [...]

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