Keynote from AECT 2013 in Anaheim, CA.
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When Superman arrived on our planet, he found that some combination of factors in earth’s environment endowed him with superpowers.Copyrighted photo from http://collectingsuperman.com/
If you’re attending AECT, several factors in your environment combine to grant you superpowers as well.
Opportunity is the ultimate superpower. Each of us finds ourselves in a situation of essentially limitless opportunity.Copyrighted image from http://life-longlearner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/opportunity-magnet.jpg
I don’t feel dishonest in saying that there is nothing that this generation of educational technologists and instructional designers can’t do if they dedicate themselves to it. Copyrighted image from http://thegraciousposse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/audrey-possible.jpg
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How are you using your superpower?Copyrighted image from http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/I-Want-You-620x350.jpeg
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That’s doing enough, right? Impacting “the field” is sufficient, right?
The sound of “impacting the field” in the real world is crickets.CC BY photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/scoobygirl/185605156/
The Superhero who doesn’t exist – the Entrepreneur who reads the educational research, deeply understands your findings, and uses your work to bless the world.CC BY photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/8936217272/
The Superhero who doesn’t exist – the Entrepreneur who reads the educational research, deeply understands your findings, and uses your work to bless the world.CC BY photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/8936217272/
That’s doing enough, right?
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http://theleanstartup.com/
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Mountain Heights Academy
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You can’t scale to 5,000,000 by yourself and without expertise in business and a dozen other fields
Screencap from Jack Jack Attack
Hannibal - when his generals told him it was impossible to cross the Alps.
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