Yes!!!!! I have been preaching the message: DO WHAT YOU LOVE. Anything you are passionate for will consume your time without your knowledge. I can sit down at the computer first thing in the morning consumed until someone asks, what's for supper. Honestly, I can sit at the keyboard for 10 to 12 hours without realizing it. Having just finished a business section on Entrepreneurship including leadership qualities with passion fueling many successful business stories. Movies worth considering are: Facebook, Ruby, Miracle on Ice, Google boys, Pirates of Silicon Valley (little dated), Bill Gates, and Pursuit of Happyness.
Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder, who knew skateboarding before he came on the scene? Who hasn't heard or Burton snowboards? How long have they been around? We can't train students to go to work in the “factory” because they really don't exist anymore. Not, that anyone would ever want a boring factory job when you have grown up as Digital Natives or just plain Born Digital. If the United States wants to maintain the status of superpower, the battle will be in the classrooms of our country. The 21st century, the digital century with products and services we can't imagine, so how do we teach for them. It will not be teaching to the test; it will be teaching critical thinking, collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. Our country needs every child to graduate college to compete in the global economy, raise gross domestic product, raise the standard of living, and dissolve the national debt. I don't see the 21st century with many letter carriers, do you?
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