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How We Can Connect Business And Educators?

integratED San Francisco 2013 - #isf13 By +Tom Whitby at My Island View.

Evidently there is an abismal separation between what business and industry needs from educators and what they are promptly to offer in such an environment. In New York connected educators discuss in a business settle, their work effect on education.

According to the article:

    [...] The big idea was to listen to what educators had to say. Pitching products to connected educators will not work. A big take away was that these industry people had access to researchers and experts not available to teachers. They could provide free webinars with these experts to address and inform on issues as professionals and not salespeople selling products.
    I can’t help to think that, if we as educators had these types of discussions earlier, maybe the discussion on education would not have been hijacked by business people, politicians, and profiteers. Instead of experts in the front of the room telling us what needs to be done, we could develop solutions through dialogue with the people really involved. The idea that well-intentioned endeavors, like Education Nation could continue with such little, or contrived participation from educators to balance the discussion could gain popular attention is more than upsetting.
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