Chapter 5 of Open with Special Guest David Price

Chapter 5 Quotes

Here is the quotes for tomorrows chat, hope you can join us with David Price joining us from England. Lets give him an awesome #WYOedchat welcome. 

what makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies. Her conclusion? Forget incentive schemes, and concentrate on the ‘inner work life’ of employees: their emotions, perceptions and intrinsic motivations.

“The overall results indicate that 11 percent of workers worldwide are engaged. In other words, about one in nine employees worldwide is emotionally connected to their workplaces and feels   he or she has the resources and support they need to succeed.

In 1986, 72 percent of professionals felt they had a ‘great deal’ of independence doing their jobs. By 2006, that number had fallen to 38

10-15% will have “permission to think.” The rest of us will merely carry out their decisions…

98 percent of US students feel bored at school at least some of the time; two-thirds feel bored every day; 17 percent say they are bored every

60 percent don’t list learning as the reason they go to

‘disengaged achievers,’ gaining good grades, but emotionally disinvested in their

unintended ‘side effect’ of this processing of students to become achieving, not engaged, learners, is to kill off a love of learning. American educators label this ‘drilling and killing”

fengagement was a key determinant of student success 20 years later: ‘The more children felt connected to their school community and felt engaged, rather than bored, the greater their likelihood of achieving a higher educational qualification and going on to a professional or managerial career.’

  In other words, an engaged student, from a disadvantaged background, is likely to have better life chances than a disengaged child from a better off background.

‘Work is Learning and Learning is the Work’,

Chapter 5 Special Guest...David Price the Author of Open

#wyoedchat ers...exciting news.  David price has been able to schedule a time for him to take part in our book chat.  The down side is it will take place at 3pm our time TOMOROW, Saturday.

I hope as many of you can jump in and join, this is a great opportunity.


I will post quotes soon and I hope to "see" all of you there.

ISTE14, #WYOedchat & WYTECC

With the help of Angie Span (@wyotigger) & Lachelle Brant ( @lachellebrant ) a plan has been born. As Wyominites are finalizing their packing and arrangements for the trip to Atlanta for ISTE this will shed some light on the plan.

Monday June 30 is Wyoming Brown & Gold day. So where what ever Wyoming brown & gold you can find! Lets represent our awesome state. The colors will help us us all recognize and connect with our fellow Wyoming teachers.
Monday evening we are going to try to get together early for a casual Wyoming dinner. Please watch the #wyoedchat feed for updates. This our chance to get together and gives us a chance to celebrate WYTECC and our state level ISTE affiliate.

 Look forward to seeing old friends and connecting with the fellow Wyoming educators in Atlanta.

Please feel free to connect and post comments to update people and ideas.

Chapter 4 Archive

Chapter 4 Quotes and Videos

Jeff Bliss, being ejected from class.

‘To bring quality content and experiences to enrich the lives of my students in the classroom and beyond’.

Is it the educational system that grinds the enthusiasm out of our teachers?

It’s surprising how often formalised learning lacks clear purpose:

By sharing what he has learned, it is more likely that others will do the same and that he will benefit in the future

Learning isn’t nurtured – it’s ‘delivered’.

but to accept that, however frustrating it might be for those who are accountable for results, learning is ultimately an act of self-determination.

No one can be ‘made’ to learn anything: for knowledge and understanding to stick, we have to have learner intent.

‘in the flow’ – unaware of time passing). Learning without engagement is likely to be superficial, temporary. Engaged learning has depth and ‘stickiness’.

70: 20: 10 learning ratio at play: 70 percent of learning is gained on the job, through experience; 20 percent is gained through coaching or mentoring; 10 percent is through formal, structured courses.

When asked ‘How do you prefer to learn?’ Most students choose ‘from friends/ family’ first, followed by ‘the internet’, followed by ‘my teacher’.

How we think we learn

how giving away your intellectual assets can restore a failing company to its former greatness and how schools can propel college and employment statistics off the charts by encouraging students to co-design their learning.

Chapter 3 Archive

Open Chapter 3 the SOFT menatlity

This week I am throwing out the quotes to be pondered to help with discussion.  Please don't hesitate to throw out suggestions for ways to improve and get more out of our talks.

Chapter 3 Open Book Study

Quote Share, Open, Free and Trust!  SOFT  

Quote. Terrorists used to communicate by letter, but we didn’t try to ban stamps; we teach our children how to cross the road, we don’t ban cars. The blocking of social media sites in schools –

Quote Here was a group of learners, without direction or coordination, undertaking sophisticated detection work and making it look easy. They acted purposefully, in order to right a wrong, (Finding the stolen car)

Quote People will act to determine their own destinies simply because they now can.

Quote employees who collaborated were twice as likely to have contributed new ideas to their company, compared with those who had not

Quote 2011, when the New York Times ran a campaign to invite readers to attempt to fix the deficit in New York City’s budget. Creating an online budget simulator, they sought a wide range of options. They received 7,000 submissions in a week.

Quote ‘radical transparency’, encouraging any employee to go public on issues they care about. Some see it as easier than dealing with a constant stream of rumour and gossip, while others see it as good for business and customer loyalty.  

Quote In our journey to becoming ‘prosumers’ (producers and consumers) it’s interesting to see how long we clung on to the mantle of the expert.

Quote The thing we all overlooked was this: people would gladly produce this content for free because the creation of it, plus a little audience recognition, was reward in itself. How did we have such a low opinion of ourselves that we couldn’t acknowledge this

Quote Which brings us back to Dan Brown. His ‘Open Letter to Educators’ video is now being used as course content in masters of education programmes at a number of US universities.

Quote Successful businesses and schools alike are introducing the learner’s ‘right-to-roam’: the freedom to learn where your interests and passions lead you. 3M were probably the first company to offer a 15 percent free-time entitlement,

Quote John Dewey, once said, “Schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning”. You’ve got to admit, it’s hard to argue against that as a mission statement.

Quote Teachers have to trust that their students, given more freedom and more responsibility, will exceed their expectations (they nearly always do).

Quote Panera Cares Community Cafe in Colorado. http://paneracares.org/ There are no prices in the cafe, and no cash registers. People put what they can afford into a donations box, (thus preserving everyone’s dignity) and if they can’t afford anything they volunteer an hour or so of their

Quote accountability is usually what’s left after trust has been removed.

accountable’ for their test scores leave teachers torn between what psychologist Barry Schwartz calls ‘doing the right thing and doing the required thing’. The right thing is to teach students

Chapt 1 & 2 Chat Archive

Day 1 OPEN Book Study Chapter 1 & 2

We will be using quote/question format for our first meeting to see if it works well.  The format will include taking a quote(s) or passage from the book and and focusing questions on that specific idea.
I will post the quote and than the question will follow.

 We will see how the flow and discussion goes tonight.  If you have suggestions please share as we learn this process together.

David Price also shared some info on the first post, as well as information on his blog and resources.

http://engagedlearning.co.uk/

Summer 2014 Book Study

This summer we will be doing a online/interactive book study.  The Book we will be looking at is Open by David Price.  By a very close vote we will use alternating Mondays and Wednesdays to get together and discuss the book and its implications on our schools and classrooms.  The first date of discussion will be Wednesday June 11th at 8 pm.  We have been in contact with the author and our excited at possibility of him joining our discussions.

Please have the first two chapters read for next Wednesday.  Happy reading.