communities of practice

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• The Builder- Designing The Future of Educational Leadership

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  If we are to create "tomorrows" educationalorganization and model, are the leaders of "yesterdays" model theleaders we will need to build "tomorrows" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transformits leaders? If we are to create a new educational organization, then does itfollow, we would need a ...
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• Vygotsky, Activity Theory and the use of tools for formal and informal learning

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 424
  In general I don’t like Christmas. Difficult travel, rampant consumerism, enforced jollity and all that kind of thing. But there is one thing I like about it and that is the peace away form day to day meetings to try and think and write a little. In this case I have an overdue short paper to deliver for the MatureIP ...
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• Are VLEs the problem or is it just how we use them?

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 424
  How we Learn – the Challenge of the Personal Learning Environment View more presentations from GrahamAttwell . I was in Wolverhampton yesterday for round 2 of our AltC debate on Virtual Learning Environments ( watch the movie here) this time entitled the VLE is Undead . In come ways it is knockabout stuff ...
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• How Good Is Your Educational Sales Force and Their Products?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  I have been read and enjoyed a great book called Death To All Sacred Cows by David Bernstein , Beau Fraser , and Bill Schwab of The Gate Worldwide . It has nothing to do with education, so, of course, I was instantly attracted to it.   In their chapter titled The Sales Force Makes The Sale, they write about ...
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• How to empower authors

  
  Column Two — Authority: 128
  In most organisations authors are vital to the effectiveness of the intranet. Despite this, authors are often given the task of updating content with little or no thought to their skills, suitability or desire. Intranet teams generally have little influence over who becomes an author. As intranets mature and become ...
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• Blending Education and Design

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Allow me to dream and muse for a moment. Allow me to dream of a blending, a fusion of education and design. Allow me to imagine, just for a moment, a new design all together different from what we know. A Design that enhances learning. A Design that creates a learning environment. An environment that makes learning ...
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• Education Innovation: Nominated For The 2009 Edublog Awards

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are thousands of excellent blogs about education and I enjoyreading many of them. That is why it is so humbling for me to have thisblog, Education Innovation nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards in the   Best Individual Edublog category . It is an honor to be included amongthe other nominees, many of ...
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• Education Needs To Take A Trip

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Trust. We all want it, but do we all give it? It is a crucial issue for teachers and administrators. Chapter 3 of the book The Collaborative Administrato r is titled “Trust: The Secret Ingredient to Successful Shared Leadership.” Trust is a key to school success. “What then should a principal do to lay ...
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• BuildItWith.Me – One of Five Ways Web 2.0 Supports Innovation

  
  Technology and Organizations — Authority: 109
  The energy around innovation activities is keeping me sane as we get to the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere. Web 2.0 infrastructures and Enterprise 2.0 ideals are energizing innovation in a way not possible with just a few people in a garage. Recruiting, Knowledge, Evaluation, Tools, and Market seem ...
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• Do Your Educational Assumptions Provide Educational Alternatives?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Do your assumptions about what education should be leave you with a lack of alternatives? One of the reasons why many people, including myself, love books like Freakonomics , Super Freakonomics , Predictably Irrational , or The Economic Naturalist is that is takes our assumptions about the world around us and ...
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• Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

  
  Communities and Collaboration — Authority: 112
  The second meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group took place yesterday, 7th December. ( For some background to the Knowledge Hub see previous posting ). It was regretable that we didn’t get more attendees from local authorities, but those who did manage to attend were involved in some excellent workshop ...
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• 9 Signs of a Losing School

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  From the I dea Management Systems blog comes this post The 9 Signs of a Losing Organisation Fuzzy Vision Lack of Leadership Skills Discouraging Culture High Bureaucracy Lack of Initiative Poor Vertical Communication Poor Cross-functional Collaboration Poor Teamwork Idea and Knowledge ...
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• Dynamic Teacher Collaboration- Harness The Power of "Q"

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Research has proven that Professional Learning Communities are one of the most powerful educational paradigms. The Professional Learning Community takes the individual teacher and hooks them into a network of their grade level or department level peers. This network in turn makes it possible for teacher to leverage ...
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• Essential Education: “Awesomely Simple” by John Spence

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Turning Your School Into A "Skunk Works" of Lateral Innovation

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Innovation should not be linear. Most of us are familiar with examples of the great innovation teams from the business and engineering world. Examples such as Xerox- PARC’ s group, to Apple’s Macintosh group, to Lockheed Martin’s famous “ Skunk Works ” have lead many of us to believe that innovative ideas ...
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• Community Technology Spidergram Evolves Again

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 451
  It is so lovely having a fabulous network – including people I just barely know, but who then hook in with a moment of insight, a remix or ready to augment a forming idea or practice. Gabriele Sani from World Vision in Italy has recently done this with the Community Orientations Spidergram from our Digital ...
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• Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 451
  OK, I need your help. I have been playing around with this idea of triangulation (possibly not the right term) for a couple of months. Lilia has written about it to help me, but now I need my network to help me sharpen my thinking. Can you please read this and give me your feedback? THANKS Triangulating for ...
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• Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 451
  Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice – is a paper that Simon Hearn from the Overseas Development Institute and I have been puttering on for quite some months. Now it emerges from the editing process at last. (Funny how so many writing projects in my life take so long. Maybe that’s ...
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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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