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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
$32.95
Clayton Christensen and colleagues point the way toward innovation in education by applying lessons learned through studying innovation in business.

Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, calls for philanthropies and foundations to fund the kind of research that helps us learn how different people learn, how to identify those differences, and how different students can best educate themselves and each other.

Future teachers will need skills to work one-on-one with different types of learners as they study in a student-centric way, Christensen says. Graduate schools of education must train researchers to go beyond doing descriptive research that seeks average tendencies. Instead, they should study the anomalies and outliers, where the richest insight often is found.

Some major messages in this book:
1. Few education reforms have addressed the root cause of students' inability to learn.
2. Previous studies of innovation showed that direct attacks on existing systems do not lead to effective disruptive innovation. Instead, innovation must go around and underneath the system.
3. We know that all children learn differently, but the way schooling is currently arranged discourages educating children in customized ways. We need a modular system.
4. Emerging online user networks offer a model for circumventing the education system and creating a new, modular system that facilitates customization. Decentralized user networks democratize development and purchase decisions to the end users in the system--in this case students, parents, and teachers.

Online courses offer the kind of customized, student-centric instruction that students most need, Christensen and colleagues argue. They propose that each school designate one person whose sole job is to implement online courses.

Jay Pivec: Disruptive Junk Defenses (DVD)
$39.99
with Jay Pivec, Minneapolis (MN) Community College Head Coach, 500+ career wins, MCCC Hall of Fame, 6x Coach of the Year Leading the nation in team defense is no small task. Coach Pivec credits his tough man-to-man defense and his unique 23 Hot junk defense for this accomplishment. Using his junk defenses and their variations limits the ability for high scoring players to operate and keeps the offense off balance while disrupting their flow. Pivec uses on-floor instruction to illustrate the multiple advantages of 23 Hot, which includes aggressive traps, post fronts and pass denials. Coaches can run three unique defensive "looks" from the basic 23 Hot: man-to-man, scramble and box-and-1. Other variations include four surprise attack options from a 1-2-2 zone, in addition to 50 and 51 full from a half court set. Junk defenses are an equalizer that will complement your basic man defense. Pivec's defense increases turnovers, lowers shooting percentage and disrupts offenses. All positive outcomes for your team. 55 minutes. 2008.

Tom Peters Live - Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
$29.99
If your interested in this product or in Tom Peters, then be sure to check out the fantastic series, "Tom Goes to the Mayor". This program informs as well as entertains the would-be entrepreneur about the ins and outs of the business world today and what it takes to be successful in today's market place of ideas.

Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies [VHS]
$95.00
Program Highlights -How to facilitate change rather than fight it.
-How to recognize opportunities for growth.
-Why your current customers may be holding you back. Many of history¡Çs greatest growth markets were created by a disruptive technology that enabled a larger population of less-skilled people to do things in a more convenient way?things previously done by expensive specialists in centralized settings. But these innovations are often met with resistance from organizations whose processes and values get in the way of succeeding. In this lecture, filmed at Stanford University, Dr. Christensen shows that in order to create new business in emerging markets, you need appropriate management of technological innovation and the ability to find new markets for new technologies.