{"id":2729,"date":"2013-01-01T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2013-01-01T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T15:11:07","slug":"education-entrepreneurship-and-the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/01\/education-entrepreneurship-and-the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Education, Entrepreneurship and The Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nDo your goals and dreams for the new year include failure?<\/span><\/strong>
\nI didn’t think so.
\nDo you have a formal, personal learning plan that maps your progressive path to the new prosperous you?<\/strong><\/span>
\nGood for you! (or not)
\nSo much for School!<\/span><\/strong>
\nIt used to be you went to school to get a formal education that served your career for years. \u00a0Now the material covered in many degree programs changes so quickly that some of the information \u00a0learned in your first year in a program is obsolete by the time you graduate. How crazy is that?
\nEnter Informal Learning…<\/strong><\/span>
\nIf you have a frimly fixed formal learning plan for the entire year you just may find yourself learning the wrong stuff by the end of the year. \u00a0Yes, things are changing that quickly and your ability to learn the important, meaningful stuff may be the difference for your future [1]. Flexible informal learning becomes the way to adjust to change.
\nThe world of education is becoming an informal free-for-all enterprise. \u00a0I’d like to think the lessons of experience schooled entrepreneurs may hold out hope for our future.
\nThe Entrepreneur’s Education?<\/strong><\/span>
\nHow do you learn best? \u00a0How is our society served by educational systems? Where do they fit in the flow on the information age? \u00a0Is informal learning becoming your learning experience?
\nCongratulations and condolenses. It appears your best learning in the information age is becoming fast and informal. \u00a0Is it becoming as effective as the entrepreneur’s “School of Hard Knocks”. \u00a0Ok, that can be really inefficient. \u00a0But hey, it is filled with many meaningful lessons and memorable experiences (did someone say painful?)
\nCan entrepreneur’s learn the lessons of life more effectively?
\nThe Education Entrepreneur<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhen individuals begin to apply their own personal learning style<\/strong> to their current learning project they cut through the chatter and clamour that clutter the direct path to their most meaningful lessons. \u00a0We were never taught how to direct our own learning so many times we are left learning what others are telling matters.
\nEntrepreneurs let the needs of the moment drive the direction of their learning experiences.
\nWhat if you and I could approach our learning problems with the smarts of proven effective teaching and learning strategies while responding to the changing world around us at the same time.
\nElephant in the Room?<\/strong><\/span>
\nIs it possible to learn effectively the newest needed information informally? \u00a0Can we apply what we are learning in our lifes now in a way that is congruent with who we are and how we learn best?
\nDo you see the Elephant in the Room? There he sits. Slow moving schools systems teaching yesterday’s content using the quickly changing technologies of today. \u00a0Students with access to technologies are now are learning informally important and meaningless stuff.
\nSo I ask again… Do you have a formal, personal learning plan that maps your progressive path to the new prosperous you?<\/strong>
\nHere is mine, firm yet flexible enough to teach you the effective informal learning skills you need for your current learning effort AND responsive to the changes we don’t yet know are coming this year.
\n <\/p>\n
\"Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/div>\n

 
\nNot to worry.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI’ll share exacting specific strategies you can use over the next few weeks. \u00a0You’ll be building your own effective\u00a0personal learning style\u00a0into your next personal learning projects before you know it.
\nSubscribe to The Teach Jim Blog<\/a> to learn how to eat your elephant in the room.
\n <\/p>\n

\"Signature\"<\/div>\n

Teach Jim
\n 
\n[1]\u00a0Geppert, L. \u201cEducating the Renaissance Engineer.\u201d <\/span>Spectrum, IEEE<\/em> 32, no. 9 (September 1995): 39 \u201343.<\/span>
\n 
\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do your goals and dreams for the new year include failure? I didn’t think so. Do you have a formal, personal learning plan that maps your progressive path to the new prosperous you? Good for you! (or not) So much for School! It used to be you went to school to get a formal education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}