I read recently about an advertising company in Minneapolis that gave their employees 4 months of paid time off.
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More than a bonus or added salary, this gift as you can see and imagine is perhaps more precious.
One of the primary benefits of today’s technology is how it can eliminate time as a primary factor in learning. We’ve come to realize that learning can happen anywhere, anytime with anyone. That “anytime” part is closely tied to the “anyone and anywhere” part as well. Yet our schools and work places alike struggle with removing the constraints of time.
I’ve been on the recipient end of these gifts on several occasions and consider them integral to my growth professionally and personally. In 1999 I was part of a grant initiative called “Project Lighthouse”. One school in our district received this grant and seconded me to work for them 1/2 time for six months. From January to June I spent every afternoon removed from classroom duties to explore and create and play with various technologies and try them in out different classrooms. After 12 years in the classroom … Read the rest