Heard Online

"Heard Online" is a random assortment of quotes captured from various sources.

"Do independent schools need to fear the fate of independent bookstores?"
       ~Emily Jones

"Helicopter parents" replaced by "snowplow parents".
       ~Mara Harano

"Beliefs affect effort and effort affects success. Expressing belief in someone's ability is powerful."
       ~Cris Tovani

Image credit: "Eight ways to kill an idea." by Scott Campbell

"We think in the service of emotional goals. Emotion is the rudder for thinking."
       ~Dr. M.H. Immordino-Yang

"An organization's ability to learn, and to translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competetive advantage."
       ~Jack Welch

"The practical lesson for us all comes down to, Nourish your social connections."
       ~Daniel Goleman

"It's Filter Failure, not Information Overload."
       ~Clay Shirky

"In the real world, the tests are all open book"
       ~Jonathan Rosenberg

"Education prepares individuals for the vital combat for lucidity."
       ~George Simenes

"Classroom teaching is to online teaching as regular polo is to water polo. You can’t run the same plays in the more fluid, immersive environment and expect the same results."
       ~ David Wiley

"Empowerment, not engagement."
        ~ Chris Lehman

".PDFs: where good ideas go to die."
        ~ @willrich45

"We do best, and engage most readily in, that which we experience as freely chosen"
        ~ Margaret Donaldson

"The death of our ability to be alone."
        ~ Brigid Delaney

"A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we’re loved."
        ~ Mr. Rogers

"Link flow..."
        ~ Will Richardson

"Attention Literacy."      
         ~ Howard Rheingold

"Free Range Kids."        
        ~ Edutopia

"Google searches websites, Twitter searches people."
        ~ TwiTip

"The objective of education is learning, not teaching."  
      ~ Knowledge@Wharton

"The more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes."
        ~ Fluid Learning

"When tension begins to escalate in a school, we retreat back into what is comfortable and traditional."  
      ~ Peter Cobb

"Strategy before resources."
       ~ President Obama

"Just saw someone actually posing for a photo. How quaint!"