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Failing Forward... With No Regrets

7/25/2016

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Being an "early Adopter" is a "Risky Business"

I didn't drive a Porsche into a lake or anything, but I learned some pretty valuable lessons from my tech fails this year and I thought I might share them. Maybe you won't make these mistakes. Perhaps you will make other mistakes instead. I hope you will share them, so that we can all learn together. I hope that by sharing my fails you will be inspired to take some risks of your own. As Joel would say...
Sometimes you just have to say, "What the (heck)."
Here are my Top 5 EdTech FAILS of 2015-2016...enjoy.

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#RealTalk

7/20/2016

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Don't believe everything you see on the internet

While doing some research for a lesson on "selfies" I came across some interesting images related to how you can't believe everything on Instagram (see video below). The idea that kids can be consuming contrived images on social media and become depressed about how their own lives don't measure up to everyone else's hype got me thinking about Twitter.
Sharing a fail once in a while reminds us that we are all real teachers and human beings that are engaging in a struggle to be better today than we were yesterday; sometimes learning is messy.

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