"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Crystal O’Connor interviews Angela Maiers with Maiers Education Services

Do Schools today Kill Creativity?

June 22, 2009 by  
Filed under 21st Century Learning, Blog, Education

Passion..a Difference Maker

Passion is the most critical, creative and disruptive force in teaching and learning. Close your eyes for just a few minutes and recall your favorite teacher of all time – anyone from kindergarten to graduate school. Now, consider what brought that individual to mind. What about that person made a difference to you or those [...]

Where Conversations are Hushed, Creativity is Stunted

June 22, 2009 by  
Filed under 21st Century Learning, Blog, Education

In this TED talk video, Clay Shirky says we are witnessing the end of the era of top-down control, and a big reason is the social prowess of tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and SMS and TXT messaging. There is an important message not to miss here: Where conversation is hushed and (attempted to be) controlled, [...]

Drowning in Social Media?

By Angela Maiers Maiers Educational Services Drowning in Social Media? – Just Breathe! Tweets, wikis, blogs, Nings, links, networks, ahhhh! I sometimes feel like I could drown in social media! This was the topic of our discussion on a recent turn of Steve Hardagon’s Classroom 2.0 Live Show. Inspired by Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero, an [...]

A Vision of K-12 Learners Today.

A Vision of K-12 Learners Today.

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