Alternative Education Resource Organization. Articles. Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. ECET2 – Technology as a Powerful Enabler of Teacher Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development. Recently I had the honor and privilege of attending ECET2: The Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teachers and Teaching Conference, sponsored by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Since the conference, I’ve been thinking a lot about its implications. The conference was so much more than three takeaways, but three are key, in my opinion: Opportunities for professional growth and development abound because of technology.Intentional teacher inquiry and collaboration is rewarding work that is possible, now more than ever, because of technology.Elevating and celebrating teachers is not entirely about how others treat and view our profession. We can choose to engage in activities which impact our professional self-image. Approximately 200 teachers from across the nation convened in La Jolla, California, at the beautiful Hyatt Regency.
Teacher Talk Survey In preparation for ECET2 I designed a ten question survey (Teacher Talk) to guide my thinking before and during the conference. Life and Death Planning: Low effort, high reward. Microsoft Word - kindergarten and creative thinking _handout2_.doc - CC2007-handout.pdf. MindShift.
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Graphic design pertains to the look of things — of everything that rolls off a printing press, from a daily newspaper to a box for corn flakes. It also pertains to the nature of things: not only how something should look but why, and often, what it should look like. Why then do design programs in large corporations seem to be going out of style?
Why is the average graphic design effort today merely average at best? One rarely hears of the program that put Westinghouse on the design map. When my friend Giovanni Pintor left his company, the character and special quality of Olivetti design no longer reflected the same passion and brilliance of an almost never-ending stream of graphic design works. Without the enthusiasm of Adriano Olivetti, its founder, there might never have been a design program. Why We Love Beautiful Things.