Thursday, July 1, 2010

Where in the World is the Class of 2011?

Okay, I know everyone is on vacation, but where are the rest of the leaders of the Class of 2011? My challenge to those who have taken the plunge and signed on to the blog is to get two more class members to join your ranks by July 4th! My challenge to those even braver few (Rebecca and Tito) who have been brave enough to post is to get at least two more people to actually blog something! Rebecca is right: you need to take little bits and pieces from Drive and connect it to your life, to your thinking about how you learn, and to your future. Make this about you and for you. If you need a "trailer" to get folks interested in picking up the book, check out this video from Dan Pink's blog on Drive.



Now for some blogging tips: Include tags (called "labels" on Blogger for some crazy reason), so that your posts can become searchable. It's a good idea to include your name as one label and any key words for your discussion as other labels. Thus, I'm labeling this post "Susan" and "blogging" and "challenge".

Tag, you're it.

8 comments:

  1. This was a great video. Did the audio come from a TED Talk? I think I've heard it before.

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  2. Oh! Also Susan, to answer your question, "Where in the world is the class of 2011": There is this amazing event that only comes around once every four years and it last for a month, completely engulfing all spectators until its final minute. I bet you know what I'm talking about and I just want to say that YES, it is that important and YES, I'm probably studying these games more than I ever studied at school. Because it is motivationally self-satisfying.

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  3. David, the audio was from a different talk but similar to the TED Talk. I'll post that one soon. As for what you've been "studying" -- I totally get it! So go with that idea? What's so engrossing and engaging about studying the World Cup? How can you translate that passion into other kinds of "studying" -- or is that impossible? What's missing?

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  4. The World Cup is the ultimate stage for Pride, Passion, and Professionalism. History is made every World Cup, and to be in on the action is to say that I was part of that History. I can say in the future that I saw Donovan's game winning goal or I saw Suarez's hand-ball that gave his team victory. Right now I'm surrounded by watch-veterans of past World Cups. They share the stories of the 1994 World Cup and its great players or of the 1986 World Cup and its impact on Mexico.

    A parallel to the World Cup can also be the Presidential Elections. Why do so many people get involved with its hype? Because it makes history and defines the future, and they get to be part of it. School subjects just don't have that international appeal to them. They don't mark where you are in history.

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  5. Ah. How can you move from being a watcher to being a doer? I like the idea of the stories (which involve re-telling, doing). How can you make your mark even when you are in school?

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  6. Well besides trying to do some Columbine act, making your mark while in school requires something unheard of. It needs to be new, innovative, different, creative, inspiring, historical and just plain EPIC. It has to be BIG, bigger than the oil spill, bigger than the ocean.

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  7. It can be done! The only thing stopping us is ourselves.

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