How do teachers who have read Dan Pink's books work their magic in a school system that hasn't heard of Asia, Automation and Abundance (the three forces shaping our future)?
This web site is an organized way of reading the blog.
June 20: "A bunch of the teachers at my school are reading Dan Pink."
July 10: To prepare for making schoolsl "Pink," teachers might look at Dennis Littky's book, The Big Picture at bigpicture.org
August 20: "We have a great training planned for Thursday. Come up here, Steve."
August 27: The Pink Meeting was canceled. "FCAT drives our school system."
August 28: What can we learn from JetBlue?
September 3: A meeting with Dr. Abraham Fischler, former head of Nova University
"Introductory classes in universities and high school spend more time on definitions and names for things (and preparing would-be doctors for doctoring and would-be lawyers for lawyering) -- and less time on transmitting to lay people the principles that we all should know about in that discipline."
Links
Bigpicture on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26637772412
Dennis Littky on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Dennis_Littky
Facebook for Mr. Y: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36633539166
Visual and Active on FB:
Littky's Interview on NPR: April 25, 2005
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I will be learning more by visiting a team of teachers that I also call "the Pink Team," because they gathered together to discuss "how do we present Dan Pink's work in our lessons? How do we adapt to the world that Pink describes?" This website, this blog will document that discussion. Send your questions to VisualAndActive@gmail.com or call 954 646 8246. I'm sharing the contents of this blog/website with Douglas Lyons, a member of the Sun-Sentinel's editorial board. Here's an idea: Why not ask a local newspaper to connect with