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The current factory model of schooling – with its time-based, bell-curved grading system – will undermine all of our efforts to personalize education. – Tom Vander Ark (from The Shift From Cohorts to Competency)
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Image credit: battered conveyor belt, sharyn morrow
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We’ve got no time, no time… [note: this is more the fault of our systems than our teachers]
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Image credit: Classroom scene with teacher Ida Adams, City of Boston Archives
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![What we permit, we promote [SLIDE]](https://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/whatwepermit1.png)
A great reminder for school leaders: What we permit, we promote.
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Inspired by:Â A post from Spike Cook (@drspikecook)
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Grades, subjects, and time have been the containers in schools. The Web has no end.
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Quote: Dean Shareski
Image credit: Endless, ScypaxPictures
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When we deny children openness and connectedness, we nullify the power of the Web.
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Image credit: Interior of Cellblock 1
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No one ever changed the world without first being labeled a ‘troublemaker.’
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Image credits: Gandhi 1944 &Â Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS 4
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Three great slides from Bill Ferriter. More at the Great Quotes About Teaching and Learning Flickr pool and my Pinterest set of slides!
Today’s schools have been sterilized
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Being good at school is like being good at Frisbee
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Students are not dead fish waiting to be stuffed
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Technology is a given, not a debate.
 – Sanne Bloemarts
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Image credit: John Biehler
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I don’t usually post commercial ad slogans, but I liked this quote…
Inspiration doesn’t favor those who sit still, it dances with the daring.
 – Toyota
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Image credit: Oregon Jack
I just added seven slides from John Spencer’s Flickr pool to my Pinterest set. Two of my very favorites are below. Check ’em all out!
Learning is supposed to be messy
