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Category: Ideas

  • Being the Beloved

    Another follow up for those that were at FBCV camp where I spoke at a month ago.  I can’t belive that it was a month ago. My last talk was on Being the Beloved.  I took most of my ideas from Henri Nouwen’s book The Life of the Beloved.  I…

  • Ford Gates Jobs

    You probably know these last names. They have been branded in such a way that they are synonymous with their products. Ford has been around for over a hundred years, and they are still around making great cars. The other 2 last names are connected to 2 technologists who lead…

  • Twitter Doesn’t Make Sense

    ….for those that do not use it.  I know a few people that just don’t understand Twitter or Facebook.  I know of a few people that refuse to use it because they just do not understand it.  It’s one of those counter-intuitive things.  It is useless unless you use it. …

  • Educate for the Unknown

    I work with college students. Every 4 years, we see a new crop of students, and there is not enough technology and insight in the world to know how these students will turn out in 4 years. There is not way I can know what the world will be like…

  • What a Fool Believes

    Songwriters Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald wrote a song by the same title.  It’s a song about a guy who believes that this girl – who he was once with – is still his girl.  Poor guy right.  It’s such a brilliant song.  One line from the chorus says, “What…

  • Move to Think

    If you stop to think about our educational system and what we unintentionally teach to our students – we prefer that our students: – Sit still – Raise your hands if you want to stay something – Color in the lines – Stand in line – To do math every…

  • If It Was That Easy

    …..then everyone would do it.  If everyone could do it, then it wouldn’t be special would it? So if you ever hear anyone use the excuse that everyone is doing it – then they belong to the large group of whiners and complainers. Who’s left?  Well, 2 groups of people.…

  • I Don’t Get Paid Enough To Do That

    is about the lamest excuse ever.  In fact, I was thinking about this this morning.  I don’t even want to use that excuse to not do something that I should do.  It doesn’t matter that it’s not in my area or in my realm of responsibility.  My motivation should be…

  • Twitter Ticker Tape 2

    So I did a google search for “facebook doppelganger” for the previous post (added the link to the post that I just wrote; just in case you don’t see it just to the right). And there is a Twitter Ticker Tape feature in the google search. Here’s what I posted…

  • Teaching Students How to Dance

    Recently, I heard a talk about how education kills creativity. We are involved in wrong educating. We teach – according to the speaker – from the waist up. Really, we teach from the neck up and typically only to the one side. We teach math everyday, but we don’t teach…

  • Right and the Opposite of Right

    What is right for us here – in this country, in this culture – might not necessarily make any sense to people in other parts of the world. You may hold on to some cultural biases that you might not even know you have – until you go somewhere else…

  • Afraid to be Wrong

    Ken Robinson says – we are raising kids that are afraid to be wrong. We have stigmatized mistakes. We want everyone to be perfect – well, at least our version of perfect. He goes on to say that you will never come up with anything original if you are not…