AJ Juliani wrote a book titled, The 2.0 Teacher.  The very first page of the book notes, "The main difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is simple: Web 1.0 users could only search and retrieve information, while Web 2.0 users participate in the creation, development and sharing of information." 

Rate your school?  

Where does our school fall on the Teacher's iPad Spectrum?

Is is possible to get past the digital worksheet/cosume mode, if we are still stuck in creating learning with hard copies and struggle with e-mails?  As a team of educators, we have to dedicate ourselves TODAY to learn, collaborate, and produce online using a variety of technology.  It begins with us. We have to start the journey and catch up with our students that have been on the 21st Century train since they came out of the womb.  

Decisions determine your destiny!

What decisions can you make today to make your destiny or dreams come true?

I love this quote from Allen Shawn:

"A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists, it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen-syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy's feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight...."

As I read this quote, I thought about how no one is expected to approach life in the exact same manner as someone else, yet we often hear comparisons of teaching styles, leadership styles, or learning styles as if they should be the same as someone else's -- that is not you! We have to embrace our differences and use them as strengths. If we did embrace differences, than the judgements of each other would be eliminated and true team work could really begin. Just a thought or maybe a goal?