RSA Animate did a rather amazing white board animation of one of Sir Ken Robinson’s talks. It made the rounds in the blogosphere a few months ago, but I put it in my “watch later” pile. With only 8 more student project to grade before I wrap up the term, and having received an email from a colleague with a link today, I indulged.

The kind of creative interpretation it takes for someone to draw images to accompany someone else’s talk is rather mind-boggling in and of itself. But even more than that is Robinson’s core message about the impact of standardized testing and the role of the arts in helping our senses work “at their peak.”

This video reaffirms why I am in education and raises questions about where, in my own practice, I’m allowing individual growth versus requiring that students do things the way I do them.

Take a few minutes and indulge … then ask yourself … what am I doing that directly supports students learning to their capacity? What could I do in the New Year?

Hi - I’ve just guest-blogged on the AASL blog about my first experience leading a Webinar.  It was fun (especially since I didn’t know I’d be filling in until Monday - little time to panic about it!). �

… maybe it’s because this is what’s happening in MBA programs:

 A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006 in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education, found that 56 percent of all M.B.A. students cheated regularly — more than in any other discipline. The authors attributed that to “perceived peer behavior” — in other words, students believed everyone else was doing it.

Found in today’s New York Times via Daniel H. Pink’s blog�