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Daniel Pink was the keynote speaker at this years TIES Technology Conference . Creative Minds Collaborating for a Web 3.0 World is the title of this year's conference. I had heard Pink speak at the University of Minnesota last spring in a conversational setting , and was interested to hear a more direct message and whether he had any new things to share. He started by talking about "What makes a Good Speech?" Brevity Levity Repetition! He said the repitition comes from a teacher he had 30 years ago, Mrs. Path, who said, "Repetition is an effective form of emphasis!" She told him over, and over and over! His focus today was on education and the economy. While not an educational expert, he said that his ability to focus on systems gives him . The purpose of education in America is not to deliver employees to buisiness, it's about helping kids reach their potential, civic responsibility, and well informed citizens. We must win that argument if we want to do we...

On Tuesday, June 3, while 30,000+ people were gathered in St. Paul to hear Barack Obama declare victory, there was a slightly smaller gathering in Minneapolis to hear noted author Daniel Pink at the University of Minnesota . I decided to go the old fashioned route, and blog on paper, but the technology failed me! My pen stopped working on the first page! A link to the audio from this talk will be here shortly. At the request of the participants no photography was allowed, so here's my view from the "Bob Uecher seats!" Pink and Darlyne Bailey, Dean of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development , had a lively conversation covering many topics in Pink's three books. The following list (Pink said he likes lists...a lot!) include topics with relevance to K-12 education. On how educators can balance creativity with critical thinking, Pink maintained that the two sides were linked, and that as K-12 educators we needed to teach for the students f...