educating for the journey

“Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.”
~ The Belzer Rabbi

This was shared on twitter by Jenny today and i absolutely love it.  It hit me on a day that i am grading the senior class’ responses to Social Media Revolution; their first writing for me.  Many of their responses are fantastic and many were written because they assumed they knew what i (the teacher) wanted to hear – this is something we will continue to work on.  I found Zittrain inspirational and (like so many TEDers) a fascinating and captive speakers…i also found in his talk, the follow up to my seniors’ blog posts.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
~ Russell L. Ackoff

I have to be honest, i don’t like teaching typing.  Yes, i admit i am thankful i learned how to do it in school.  I just think it is incredibly short sighted to think that today’s students will interact with their computers in this way.  Speaking of interacting with computers…