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The Surprising Truth Behind Creating and Consuming - John Spencer @spencerideas

The Surprising Truth Behind Creating and Consuming - John Spencer @spencerideas | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
It’s easy to pit creativity and consumption against each other. However, critical consuming is vital for creative work. When you engage in critical consuming, you become more inspired and ultimately, you will create better content.
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I’m Not Interested In The Label of Entrepreneurship: It’s About Creating Something. - MEDIUM

I’m Not Interested In The Label of Entrepreneurship: It’s About Creating Something. - MEDIUM | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Many of you are caught up in the label of entrepreneurship. I too, admit that I have been caught up in the same vortex of BS.

Harvard says that entrepreneurship is supposed to be like X.

That Meetup you went to says that entrepreneurship is Y.

You then get home and listen to a Gary Vee podcast and start to think that entrepreneurship is now Z.

While everyone is debating what it takes to be an entrepreneur — what traits you have to have to be an entrepreneur; how to raise money as an entrepreneur; what social media channel you should be on — people just like me are switching off.

The fascination of the label entrepreneurship is pointless. The meaning of entrepreneurship comes from the meaning you give it. It’s trivial in the end.
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Seven Stages in Moving from Consuming to Creating - John Spencer @spencerideas

Seven Stages in Moving from Consuming to Creating - John Spencer @spencerideas | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I’ve been thinking about stages that I notice as students move from consumers of media to creators of media. I admit that this is not very scientific. There might be a better model out there that explains this phenomenon. However, here are seven stages I see students go through as they shift from consuming to creating:
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