So I was reading up on the Always Learning blog for a change. Cofino did a blog called, “The Outside Voice.” The blog started out by talking about how Cofino went to Qatar to speak on 21st Century Literacy at a school in a city named Doha. She seemed to give off the impression that the school didn’t need her to speak since they employed such a technologically versed woman, Julie Lindsay. (More on her later.) Then she went on to talk about how important an outside influence is on an institution, no matter if the institution is well-prepared or not.
Its really funny that I stumbled upon this article tonight, because my Fraternity’s Field Secretary is in town. Although our chapter has a lot of things going well for us and we have a lot of talented people in committee chairs and things like that, it was great to get his advice on things. He’s lived a different life and was in Fiji at a different school, so he’s seen different things. Each of our chairmen had meetings with him today and I think we all benefited from what he had to say.
This is exactly what I think this blog is getting at. No matter who the person is giving advice, its great advice because it comes from a different place. No matter how good the people within your institution are, they can never be as good as having other people as well, because the people involved in your institution are all exposed to different things. This has a lot to do with collaboration, which is the topic of my next blog.
-Jeron
