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The Future of Publishing This is an oldie but a goodie. About 5 years old. Looking back today, can we agree with what they said? Are publishers going in this direction, specifically, textbook publishers? More about the video: This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books and produced by Khaki Films (http://www.thekhakigroup.com/). Originally meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. We hope you enjoy it (and make sure you watch it up to at least the halfway point, there’s a surprise!). The clip was inspired by a video created by an Argentinean agency, Savaglio/TBWA entitled, "Truth": http://bit.ly/truthvideo Read an interview with the creator of the video on the Penguin Blog: http://bit.ly/futureofpublishing If you are interested in downloading this video for personal use, please visit our Bookseller site video page: http://bit.ly/penguinbooksellervideos http://us.penguingroup.com

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"I never failed, it just didn’t work 10,000 times" —Thomas Edison on the development lightbulb. Honda had a series of films on their website back in 2009 under a larger marketing campaign called "Dreams." The films, for the most part, are of course, people telling how good Honda products are. One in particular however, peaked my interest: Failure. This film, looks at how failure can lead to success. I was watching this and began to think about how we, in general,  don’t allow for failure in education. Students are not allowed to explore and fail, teachers are not allowed to experiment and fail, and administrators are not allowed to try innovative things that might fail. I think it is important for students to see that adults fail, but that the failures are used as learning experiences. There is a lot of talk these days about using failing as a learning tool, and business has several books on failure. Most of the things that we as educators call "innovative" are actually copies of something someone else is doing, so in reality, we may say we will allow people to fail, but we provide such a controlling environment, that failure is not an option. So here is the video from the Honda site on "Failure: The Key to Success." It is directed by documentary filmmaker Derek Cianfrance.

Recently, I was in a conversation with some fellow administrators on a webinar and the question...