back to basics: what really matters now

Back to Basics

Dean ShareskiMobile 2013

Tucson, AZ09.18.13

What Really Matters Now

This is me

@shareski

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Sam's First Day of Kindergarten1995

2013

Sam's First Day of grad school

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Its not about the technology

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“People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of thingsthey weren't so crazy about the first time around.” ~Author Unknown




share everything

play fair

don't hit people

Put things back where you found them

clean up your own mess

wash your hands before you eat

warm cookies and cold milk are good for you

live a balanced life-learn some and think some and

draw and paint andsing and dance and play and work every

day some

take a napevery afternoon

When you go outin the world,

watch out for traffic,hold hands andstick together

be aware of wonder. Remember the little seedin the Styrofoam cup;the roots go down and the plant goes up and

nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that

And then remember the dick and jane booksand the first word

you learned -the biggest word of all-

LOOK

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Abundance




Abundance Scarcity





Abundance Scarcity

information







Abundance Scarcity

information attention






MindfulNess

Attention may be our most valuable resource/commodity

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Photograhpers having Breakfast

“At this age, they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”

Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.

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My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.

My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.

“But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something

we do with each other. The internet is where people are.”

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Positive Deviants



...an idea problem; it’s a recognition problem.

David Burkus

Innovation is not...

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How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?


Do you LOOK for ideas and greatness in others?


Do you LOOK for ideas and greatness in others?

What do you SEE around you that others mayhave missed?

When you go outin the world,

watch out for traffic,hold hands andstick together

COMMUNITY

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The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger

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Tell that to Chris Avenir

Tell that to Chris AvenirRyerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.

1.Learning should be hard.

2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.

3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.

i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by certified persons, it’s not valid.

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Mind Your Own Business

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What did you learn from others?

What did you contribute to the learning of others?

“Bringing smart people together is an ancient and effective technique for developing ideas. The Net also lets smart people connect and communicate...

David Weinberger,Too Big To Know

But the Net brings people together in new and occasionally weird configurations—a weirdness that is now being reflected in how expertise works....”


My Learning Project

My Teaching Staff

How are building COMMUNITY?


Do your students get to TEACH?


Do your students get to TEACH?

How do you insure they LEARN from others?

live a balanced life-learn some and think some and

draw and paint andsing and dance and play and work every

day some

JOY




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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

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"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"










I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:

It’s an end in itself.





Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante

It's an end in itself.

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It's an end in itself.

















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