Looking for a little good news? The Carnegie Hero Foundation has published its latest round of annual honors. A Utah teenager is on the list and received coverage in the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune. To make the Carnegie list you need a dramatic story, but of course there are incidents of quiet heros all around us. Here are a few I know of.
A young teacher finds old textbooks and other out-of-date curriculum materials frustrating. He leaves the classroom but does not abandon his dream that access to technology can help improve education. The enterprise he helped organize now brings educational technology and curriculum support to half a million students in schools, colleges and universities throughout his state.
A grad student envisions a way to electronically translate the "old" EBCDIC computer language to the more popular ASCII code. The resulting "black box" enables businesses to save thousands of dollars by connecting relatively inexpensive PC printers to their mainframe systems. He starts companies that engineer and market this technology to busineses throughout the world.
The young son of an English immigrant is known in his 1870's community as the boy always has a pencil handy. He follows his father and brothers in the cattle business, but also trains as a teacher. Later he becomes a school superintendent, legislator, one of the founders of a rural telephone company. And in the midst of the great depresssion he somehow sees that all of his children -- both sons and daughters -- graduate from college.
Who are your quiet heroes and what are their stories?
Related resources at UEN include the Student Education Occupation Plan (SEOP), Technology Life and Careers - All About Me, and Cyber Careers.
"You don't have to be noisy to be effective." --Philip Crosby
Found while looking for something else: We got what we want, not what? by Pete Kruckenberg
p.s. Have you taken my exercise quiz? So far the "movers" are in the lead. See below.
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