Education
From Backpack to Briefcase: How to Thrive in the Hyperspeed Workforce Without Losing Your Mind
Format: Keynote or Concurrent Session for Students
Length: 60 or 90 minutes with optional Q&A
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When Tod presents this keynote, you can hear a pin drop. Students about to leave college/university face an uncertain future — a job market that demands an “always-on” mindset, an unstable economy, and challenges working with many different generations.
A student’s reaction, after listening to Tod’s presentation
In this compelling presentation, Tod walks students through his own courageous story of going from being a busy multi-million dollar CEO of a publicly traded technology company to fighting for his life battling an addiction and depression — illnesses which began during those dot com days. Healthy and strong today, Tod’s message is inspiring, emotional, and serves as a warning to keep the important things in life front and center.
“Your story about entering a fast-paced business and suffering stress and depression as a result was incredibly moving for me, a student who had, until shortly before that conference, bought into the idea that working myself to death would make me successful. Your talk made me cry. OK, I balled. It was embarrassing. But I really treasured the wisdom you shared with us, and still think about your story every so often. You’re an effective speaker, and a gutsy storyteller. I should have told you then, but — thanks.”
– Deanne Beattie
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The Problem With Rock Tumblers: Why Our Education System is in Urgent Crisis (and How to Fix It)
Format: Keynote or Concurrent Session for School Administrators and School District Leadership
Length: 60-75 minutes [other time formats]
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The “system” means well, but it’s slowly asphyxiating the future of education. In this provocative keynote address, Tod Maffin identifies the primary ways the education system is taking the “rough stones” of learners and tries to grind and polish their way to education — while actually scraping away the culture and uniqueness the learners bring. Maffin’s five steps to repairing this damage will get your conference delegates talking days after the address.
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Learning in a Digital World: How Technology is Changing the Way Students Learn
Format: Keynote or Concurrent Session for Teachers/Instructors
Length: 60 minutes [other time formats]
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In a world where two thirds of kids spend more time in front of a computer than a television set, are we unknowingly re-shaping the learning patterns of children?
Is living in a remote control world helping or hindering education? What key things has our networked world already taught young people behind our back, and how kids are coping with learning in the hypermedia environment we’ve handed them. In this thought-provoking, fast-paced 45-minute presentation, Tod will dive into the latest neurological research around cognitive development — and, using dozens of short videos and custom images, make it simple to understand. You’ll fly through the brain’s learning centres and discover how the high-tech world and media multitasking is changing actual brain structures at the cellular level.
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What They Say:
Verbatim comments from session evaluation forms, Calgary Teachers’ Convention, February 2008:
- “Provocative, stimulating, new information — wow. Excellent!”
- “Applicable to my current teaching situation.”
- “Excellent seminar — for parents and teachers alike — one all teachers should have attended!”
- “Brilliant, engaging, stimulating!”
- “Entertaining, informatice, engaging, humourous, and most of all personal!”
- “Does he do full-day sessions? Could we bring Tod in next year on a common PD day? Get him back!”
A sampling of Tod’s education clients in just the last 18 months:
- VHA Leadership Conference, Philadelphia
- B.C. Public School Employers Association
- Simon Fraser University
- Association of Administrators of English Schools of Quebec
- The Virtual School Society
- E-Learning Consortium, Florida
- Conference Board of Canada
- B.C. Teachers’ Federation
- Calgary City Teachers’ Convention Association (10,000+ attendees!)
- …and more!
Media Coverage
- “Education System ‘Rock Tumbler’ Needs An Overhaul“
- “Teachers Encouraged to Personalize Lessons” — Calgary Herald
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