Transformaction - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators:
Looking Ahead
Transformaction
The world we know is built on transactions. Everything is a matter of give-and-take. We exchange what we have for things we want and need of similar value. Economically speaking, it works. We have learned to assign value to everything, and then conduct transactions based on those values. Living by making transactions works as long as you exist in a closed system. You maintain the value of everything. The goal is to keep what you have intact. As long as you are getting what you need for the value you have agreed upon, you’re happy with things and the model works.
But what happens if you aren’t getting what you need? Or if you can see what you need but you can’t afford the value assigned to it? The assigned values prohibit you from getting the job done. You either go without, try to renegotiate the assigned values of things, or go outside the system to get what you need.
This is where we are now in education. The values have already started changing but we are still
