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There is a great deal of buzz in the education community about 21stCentury Learning, social media and connectivity. Perhaps we should be lookingat one of the world’s most successful (though not perfect) companies to learntheir guiding principles.
Google, Inc. wrote “10 Things” and corporate leaders revisit theseideas every couple of years to see if they still hold true. (There’s arefreshing concept for educators as well.)
Principle NumberFour: Democracy on theweb works.
Google believes that its searchfunction work s because users get to “vote” each time they land on a page. Atcorporate headquarters their hard drives are crunching numbers to determinewhich sites offer the greatest content value to customers. And we are allcustomers.
Google believes that its searchfunction work s because users get to “vote” each time they land on a page. Atcorporate headquarters their hard drives are crunching numbers to determinewhich sites offer the greatest content value to customers. And we are allcustomers.
They also innovatethrough open source software development, thereby making more programs “free.”
How about democracyin the classroom? Do your students perform better when they make choices abouthow to present what they are learning? Must everyone make a poster? Please sayit isn’t so!
How do you offer democraticchoices to your students?
