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As a technology leader, how can you use the lessons from Daniel Pink and George Couros in your duties? 

1. How are you developing your identity as a technology leader/facilitator? I am growing into my own as a technology leader by working on more educational products that reach the entire organization rather than just the department. I am asserting myself more in meetings and understand now that I know more than I thought I did.  2. How are you building relationships with individuals in your practicum school, district, and classroom?  I am building relationships by entering into a formal mentorship agreement with an instructional designer. I also develop policy that covers the way technology is distributed, help teach faculty best practices in cybersecurity, and am developing relationships  with educational specialists in the Education and Training department. 3.  Give an example of how you have started to empower others to be risk-takers? I've helped begin a new policy framework that changes the entire way that policies are managed. It's a risk to change anything that's stoo

  What is an example of how your leadership style is developing and evolving as you continue to work in your practicum setting?  What is one thing in your leadership style that you have to improve upon or adjust?   What is one thing that you view as a strength in your leadership style? 

What does innovation look like?  Growth and change. Innovation means drawing from skillsets that we don't personally have and surrounding yourself with people who know what they are doing. Tapping into the wells of existing knowledge that the SMEs possess. Innovation is always asking yourself what expertise isn't being utilized in a realm or subject that could be helpful, and that no one is talking about or utilizing. Innovation is understanding visual appeal and marketing and user experience, and giving people an automatic positive association with the content. Understanding we are all visually connected and wired. Innovation is superficial, and not in a negative sense. Our instincts tell us what is quality content or product, and the visual platform is the vessel. The valuable of visual appeal is so in our faces, especially when it's not our realm. Innovation means questioning ones blind spots. We are not taught to question ourselves, so having the ability to remove emoti

"Kids don't learn from people they don't like." - Rita Pierson Championing for the learner, and for the technology being proposed is hard work. One has to dig deep to help ones learners to synthesize the material while simultaneously cheerleading for the lesson content and convincing them in the delivery. Doing that day in and day out, well, it wears on instructors and teachers. But as the formidable Rita Pierson says, kids don't learn from people they don't like, and the same rings true for adult learners. How does an instructor deliver content that is necessary, but not exactly exciting, in a likeable and relatable way? How does an instructor infuse likeability into unlikeable content? How does an instructional designer draw learners in even with dry content?