Focus on the WHY: Driving the next 25 years of change
1. Focus on the WHY
Driving the next 25 years of change
Cali Morrison
2. The What
• As Educators, our what is
educating students.
• As Educational Technologists,
our what is using technology
to educate students
EFFECTIVELY.
5. Write on Tablet by David Lankford
http://www.flickr.com/photos/102066657
@N06/9792044004/
Tablet Use 2 by ebayink
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebayink/6816
581064/
6. Mobile Learning by Clemens Locker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/986
41062@N05/9399040707/
Mobile Learners in train by Tero
Toivanen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tero
makotero/8705861207/
7. Nadia playin on a
tablet by Larry
Armstrong
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/sporkwra
pper/9537394877/
8. The Why
This is where most institutions, and frankly,
many individuals get lost – in the why. The
why is personal and as our days are infiltrated
with more and more activity, we lose the
opportunity to focus on the why. As
institutions we get caught in the business of
policy and regulations and the hype of what’s
new and sometimes lose sight of our why – of
our mission.
9.
10. The basic currency of higher education — the
credit hour — represents the root of many
problems plaguing America's higher education
system: the practice of measuring time rather
than learning.
– Amy Laitinen, Cracking the Credit Hour
http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/cracking_the_credi
t_hour
College Lecture Hall – Sean MacEntee
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smem
on/5188351708/
11. Start with the Why.
• I Believe Focusing on the WHY not
the WHAT will bring more success.
The WHY inspires those who lead &
inspires others to find their WHY.
– Simon Sinek
TEDxPuget Sound, Sept.2009
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
12. Smithsonian EdLab Mobile Learning Workshop F Delventhal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/7290357540/
13. Here’s to the crazy ones — the
misfits, the rebels, the
troublemakers, the round
pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things
differently — they’re not
fond of rules. You can quote
them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them, but
the only thing you can’t do
is ignore them because they
change things. They push
the human race forward,
and while some may see
them as the crazy ones, we
see genius, because the
ones who are crazy enough
to think that they can
change the world, are the
ones who do. – Steve Jobs
17. ‘Borrowed’ from Pearson
Research & Innovation (If
you haven’t watched the
videos, DO! Thanks to Jeff
Borden who introduced me
to these)
School of Thought Videos -
http://researchnetwork.pearson.com
/online-learning/videos
18.
19. What drives my next 25 years:
• “I am neither especially clever nor especially
gifted. I am only very, very curious.” – Albert
Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
20. What drives yours?
Join the me in the conversation of how we get
enable change over the next 25 years.
cmorrison@wiche.edu
Twitter: @calimorrison
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LinkedIn: Cali Koerner Morrison
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