#iitbch14

[paulsignorelli]

As teacher-trainer-learner-doers, we tend to want to take care of others—even to our own detriment, George Couros and Katie Novak suggest in the final chapter of their book Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL [Universal Design for Learning] and the Innovator’s Mindset. Taking a sick day, missing a workshop, or postponing a formal presentation we have promised to do is something we attempt to avoid at all costs. But the overlooked cost of that approach is the cost to ourselves in terms of health, mental acuity, and overall well-being—and the opportunities other miss when we don’t ask them for assistance in our moment(s) of need. “We’re all in this together” is a truism all too easily forgotten…but brought back to the forefront of our minds when we realize that perhaps we have been spending just a tad too much time trying to meet our commitments to our other members of our communities, e.g., our Innovate Inside the Box Instagram Book Study group! Forgetting that there is a world out there beyond the rooms and walls and virtual spaces in which we all spend too much time. Time which we could be spending observing the world. Learning from it. Immersing ourselves in it. Riding its waves. Exploring its beauty. And stepping outside the boxes into which we so willingly have placed ourselves in ways that keep us from remembering, as George says, “to inspire yourself.”   #IITBCH14 #InnovateInsideTheBox #socialmedia #edtech #learning #innovation #collaboration #community #rest #rejuvenation @gcouros @katienovakudl (at Ocean Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8czqJ_FXQh/?igshid=1nn3disrqi5x4