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Are Ideals Really Ideal? (Finding Common Ground)

'Nepal - Embraced by Shangrila' creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by dhilung: http://flickr.com/photos/dhilung/3904555723 This post was originally posted on +Peter DeWitt 's Finding Common Ground blog on the 6th of January. It seems with the latest changes to the Performance and Development Process and +Will Richardson 's message in his #TL21C Keynote to change just 10% of your practise pertinent to repost it here. Recently, as a part of the Ed Tech Crew Christmas Hangout , +Darren Murphy  posed the question, what would your ideal school be? It got me wondering, what does the talk of ideals really achieve?  Often discussions about the ideal school converge with the amalgamation of a diverse range of ideas and practises. Where there is not only a wide range of technology on offer, but it is ubiquitous. Where connections are made around the world. Where students are creators of original content that is published for authentic audiences. Wh...