I really like Ashton Kutcher. He seems down to earth, incredibly smart, and is very tech savvy. In this short video he talks about how he initially passed on investing in Uber and why.
Ashton Kutcher initially passed on investing in Uber — he talks about how easy it is to underestimate new ideas pic.twitter.com/fgrEe2Fkug
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) September 28, 2018
What struck me about the idea of change:
“The fundamental intuition…which has been an assumption for so long…is wrong.”
When I first started teaching, my fundamental intuition about the fact that my subject should come before anything was wrong. The idea that we should all give the same evaluations despite the fact that the students in front of me needed a different approach was wrong.
This is something that also struck me when I read some of the statistics in the recent Common Sense Media research around social media and teens. While the study found that teens feel that social media has a positive rather than negative effect on how they feel, most adults would say the exact opposite.
When I first learned George Couros’ definition of Digital Leadership years ago, as “using the vast reach of technology–especially social media–to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances of others,” it went against my “fundamental intuition”, but embracing digital leadership has impacted my life and the way I view the world in profoundly positive ways.
Today, people share with me all the time how incorporating social media in their classes has been very positive.
And yet the “fundamental intuition” is to block and ban.
What if our fundamental intuition around including social media in the context in school, is wrong?
In what other instances is our “fundamental intuition” in education possibly wrong?