by My parents both worked in sales for much of my life. I remember deciding as a young child that sales was not for me. I studied to be a jazz musician and then became an educator, speaker and journalist.
There will be lots of talk at next week’s ISTE Conference about “those of us in the industry.”
You can keep your industry! I’m an educator!
Better yet, keep your industry away from my professional community.
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.
Agree…agree….agree. They can also keep their talk of students and parents as clients and the business analogies.