DISQUS

Jeff · 1 year ago

aw shucks. did i coin a phrase?

Laura · 1 year ago

I work at The Open University and perhaps because it started something unique when it was founded in the 70's - distance education in the UK - it has a lot of teacherpreneurs who thrive on teaching differently and finding new ways to teach. The OpenLearn website is one example of how they have changed the educational landscape - free resources made available under a Creative Commons license, an open source virtual learning environment and tools such as knowledge mapping, idea mapping and video blogging integrated to help learners make sense of the resources and work together to solve problems. The next OU project is SocialLearn and I think that takes us further down the road of enabling entrepreneurship in education... but it's in development so more on that another day!

eugene cantera · 1 year ago

I am a Teacherpreneur in the area of music education!! I found this site by happenstance in the great blogosphere. There is no doubt that teaching and entrepreneurship deserve to share a place at the the proverbial table.

We at the Dallas School of Music have been in the business of music education for over 15 years and I believe that privatization can be a win-win situation for both the student and teacher. In our case, we offer world class music education to people of all ages and all levels of ability - on all instruments. That's something academia cannot (and does not) do.

I also believe that privatization can actually SAVE our entire profession. As budgets dwindle and arts/music courses are slashed, shouldn't we be training future music educators to be more business savvy? In the very least, they should be made aware of options outside of academia and entrepreneur courses should be included in their curriculum. There is no doubt that more teacherpreneurs would make a better, healthier environment across the board.

Kudos!

Vicki Davis · 12 months ago

The term has been around for quite a while - Nov 2006 was when I blogged it. http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/11/clas...

It is difficult to attribute these terms to anyone, though. Although I'm the first person that I recall using it, I don't know all knowledge.

A while back, I used the term Web 3D, and was accused of "stealing" the term from another person when in fact, I'd never heard the term, it was just a natural progression for me. The other person had used it years before me, but did they "invent" the term, I just don't think so.

Terms just seem to evolve - however this is an important term to use, I think. (See http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/google... from this summer).

We need to give teachers the ability to customize our classrooms and to shape the curriculum to meet the objectives instead of having prescriptive things handed down.

I do think, that where these sorts of things go astray is when people "steal" terms and don't attribute, but that is something we'll never know as it is in the heart of an individual.

Jeff (not the Jeff who is refe · 12 months ago

Vicki - your admonition about claiming to coin the term teacherpreneur seems a little self-serving to me. If you had referenced multiple locations where the term had been used in the past, that would have been more subtle. However, referencing your own post and stating that you were the first you know of to post it is a way of implying that you think you may have coined the term. Your current post does to Jeff what was done to you in the March 2007 post that you reference here. In any case, your comments did exactly what you told him he should not do. Just my 2 cents.

Don Berg · 11 months ago

I have been using the term since at least 2004. Here's the address in the Way Back Machine from archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040824234900/www.m...

I didn't "coin" the term, either. It went around in teaching circles briefly as a code word for partnering with local businesses to expose students to the "real world." That seems to have gone by the wayside along with the web pages that used to refer to it.

I home schooled other people's using a consensus run small group format for 6-12 year olds in which we used the community as the primary learning resource. Instead of bringing a bunch of kids about the same age into a room, bringing a bunch of resources into the room and then telling the kids what to do with them, I did the opposite. I got as age diverse a group as possible, went out into the commnunity with them to discover resources and then worked with them to figure out what to do.

The business model wasn't sustainable, though that was in the late 90's and online support resources didn't exist yet.

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Enjoy,

Don Berg

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Shop Fitting · 9 months ago

There are too many so called Entreprenreurs who don't even know the meaning of Entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who's doing things different and someone who's taking a huge risk. So what are the Teacherpreneur good at? There's a saying, "Those Who Can...Do, Those Who Can't .....Teach."

Club Penguin Cheats · 1 month ago

The OpenLearn website is one example of how they have changed the educational landscape - free resources made available under a Creative Commons license, an open source virtual learning environment and tools such as knowledge mapping, idea mapping and video blogging integrated to help learners make sense of the resources and work together to solve problems.

Virtual Pets · 1 month ago

Hahaha. Still laughing over that Godzilla picture up top.

mercedes car seats · 6 days ago

The OpenLearn website is one example of how they have changed the educational landscape - free resources made available under a Creative Commons license, an open source virtual learning environment and tools such as knowledge mapping, idea mapping and video blogging integrated to help learners make sense of the resources and work together to solve problems.