Changing Life

Change requires much more than courage. Each person is different; therefore, each situation requires a different approach. In the final analysis, you have to know yourself and what you are capable of handling before embarking on a new episode in life. Your age, your background, your experience, your resources, your skills, your love of adventure, your desire to meet new people, and your resilience to adjustments all must bear on your decision to make a change. To be aware of yourself is the first step in making such a momentous decision. The most important thing to remember is that nothing is 100 percent guaranteed. Life is about change, and career planning and self-exploration are lifelong processes. You don’t just make a decision today and expect that you will be completely satisfied with that choice for the rest of your life. As you grow and experience things and meet different people, as society grows and technology develops, so will your interests change, grow and re-develop. However, this doesn't mean that the choices you make today are worthless. They too play an important role in your future. You will be able to draw on these experiences to help you assess yourself later when you want to consider new options, goals and dreams. Life is about choices. If you don’t make a choice, someone else will choose for you! Always remember: begin by taking a look at you; accept the challenge to understand yourself and to like who you have become or the person you aspire to be; and ask yourself questions and take the time to find the real answers...Life is a now experience. So, forget what’s gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what’s next. Be grateful for all you have. Trust the process of life, and not so much the outcome...

People need to be saved from the morass of propaganda they face every day...People need to be able to sift and weigh evidence, discern the true from the false, fact from fiction. Intelligence is something that we need to improve, but this intelligence without character will lead us toward an undesirable future...Perseverance is what achievement is made of...Success goes to those who show up and do the work until they reach their goals...

Philosophy in Education

The following link is for a video regarding Philosophy in Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8x4iALsgA

Schools of the future / Digital Literacy / Life-long Learning

The challenge for schools of the future is to create educational environments that expand and enhance the ability of the digital natives while empowering them with the knowledge and skills needed for success in a global society. The future economy will need workers with key soft skills including information literacy, critical thinking and problem solving, cultural competency global perspective, workplace ethics, systems thinking related to green sustainability, business and technology literacy. The digital students of schools in the future will also have to acquire digital literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy skills. The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach the literacy in this new mileu. Using the same skills used for centuries-analysis, synthesis, and evaluation-we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.

Access to world class broadband will revolutionize classroom education and enable students to engage more effectively with the resources from around the world. Technologies are transforming classrooms into more engaging, collaborative and productive learning environments in which instruction can be customized to students’ specific needs, interests and learning styles. It is also redefining the way educators teach, as well as the role they serve-from being the sole sources of information to being guides and facilitators in the learning process. The future of technology will enable people to be life-long learners. Learning will continue into the work place where there is a need to keep up with current information. Closing up, if the rate of change inside an institution is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight…Technology is developing at a very fast pace. If education fails to keep up with the current trends, will it keep up with those of the future?”