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"We are supposed to be uplifted by these stories but they depress me. If it takes a hero to save an inner city school then there is no hope. Heroes are not replicable."
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Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)
"The film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head."
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"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
Some ideas to fix the American education system.
"Moving forward not-knowing is more valuable than moving forward assuming we know. Doubt, not certainty, is the foundation of reasoning, emotion, and learning."
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"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
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"I am frankly amazed how much of their limited resources universities allocate to owning land . . . Instead of going into the real estate business, why not developers and land-lords do this and focus resources on talent."
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"We are much more active in our content - we desire the ability to move beyond content and toward conversation. In our world today, content is a conduit for conversation."
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"The problem is that most folks, besides not believing they are special (a tragic oversight, by the way), are so dulled out or fatigued that their innate intelligence, creativity, and passion are encrusted with inertia and thereby rendered sluggish."
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The Awfulness of College Lectures
"So if what he's saying isn't very interesting, why do we subject ourselves to it? How did this become the primary method of education?"
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The bizarre story of Michael Oher, left tackle for Ole' Miss.
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1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers
Good advice for teaching design and just about anything else.
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A Little Learning Is an Expensive Thing
A former president of Emory and Wesleyan Universities tells the truth about college.
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youth and those crazy hormones
Maybe, just maybe, it's possible that teenagers aren't as dumb as we think they are?
"We have designed education to promote certainty (i.e. a state of knowing)...we now need to design education to be adaptable (i.e. a process of knowing)."
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The invisible hand on the keyboard
Why do economists spend valuable time blogging?
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India Rejects The $100 Laptop.
"The $100 (actually it's up to $140) laptop for children at the BOP--Bottom of the Pyramid-- is taking a sharp hit with the rejection by India of the entire concept."
Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time
Using video games to help people udnerstand complex topics.
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"Instead of fixing the other 7 showers, and bringing them up to par with the best shower --- and making all the showers WORK AS WELL AS THE BEST, or #1 shower.....someone decided to......IMPAIR THE SHOWERHEAD OF THE BEST SHOWER."
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And what I said at Princeton. (By David Sedaris)
No Instruction Necessary: part 1
Andy Rutledge on affordance: "A common object with an obvious affordance is a glove. When you look at a glove, there appears to be one, and only one way to “use� it."
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"Why the country's reliance on imported brainpower is on a collision course with its home-grown distaste for science."
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Take This Internship and Shove It
"What if the growth of unpaid internships is bad for the labor market and for individual careers?"
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The homepage of Natalie Jeremijenko.
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"True learning happens when learners stop seeing themselves as mere students who do homework and complete assignments. True learning happens when they don’t see it as learning."
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Ill-structured process, clear outcome
"I wonder if we couldn't extend that value of learning slightly if we didn't equate it so strongly with structure. I think we can achieve intended outcomes, even if the learning isn't structured or sequenced in a particular manner."
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Academic turns city into a social experiment
A different kind of politician: "Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change."
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Will Wright: "In an era of structured education and standardized testing, this generational difference might not yet be evident. But the gamers' mindset - the fact that they are learning in a totally new way - means they'll treat the world as a place for creation . ."
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"What I’m not opposed to saying, however, is that the style used in an essay certainly seems to influence grading tendencies, even if that is at an unconcious level."
"Our education platforms should be designed to allow for learners to pull our content into their space."
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This teacher draws out the artist in students
On a high school teacher who teaches design: "My art room has evolved into a safe place for students, where design is used as a bridge to art and science."
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It doesn't come pre-packaged anymore . . .
"As I've stated before...learning is like opening a door, not filling a container. Content is something that is created in the process of learning, not only in advance of learning."
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"There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others."
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Their Own Version of a Big Bang
Those who believe in creationism -- children and adults -- are being taught to challenge evolution's tenets in an in-your-face way.
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
"The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher."
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The DH Interview With Phillip Bouchard, Creator of Oregon Trail
Finally, an interview with the man behind the game I remember most from my childhood.
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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?
"Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"
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Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $1 million)
"We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
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Interdisciplinary People vs. Teams?
"Creativity by committee can be doomed to fail if the groups themselves are not chosen carefully by some who knows the talents and the personalities involved."
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Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: "It's not about what YOU do... it's about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver."
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Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution
Scientists are opting out of state debates on evolution because they feel it only strengthens the idea that there's actually something worth debating.
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The Five Things I Learned In Business School
A VC: "I learned five things in business school. They are five important things, but there are only five that I can list."
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Public Broadcasting Targeted By House
"A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street" . . ."
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Creating Passionate Users: "So... how are you heping your users/customers/students/guests/visitors/clients/members/readers kick ass?"
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The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic Thinking
"Self-reflective thinking is making a comeback in school curricula and the homeschooling movement, and it also seems to succeed on standardized tests of achievement and problem solving assessments."
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Facts of Life, for Their Eyes Only
The history of fifth grade sex education videos.
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As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested . . . part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such things never happen
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Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes, Claude Steele finds, hampers the ability to succeed. The idea is now central in affirmative action and job discrimination fights.
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What Today's Students Can Learn from IDEO
Eide Neurlearning: "What IDEO may help specifically with is a more systematic approach to teaching and encouraging problem solving."
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identity crisis: the curse/joy of being interdisciplinary and the future of academia
apophenia: "It will not be possible to label the next round of revolutionary scholars and they won't be trapped up in conversations and defining disciplines or securing methods. "
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Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
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Wired: "There will always be a market for young reporters who know how to gather facts and write them up in a clear, convincing manner."
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John Taylor Gatto: "Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are:"
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Increase the Challenge, Increase the Attention
Eide: "Older adults and younger school age children had problems with focus at low levels of 'visual challenge' . . . When the task was made more challenging (centrally distracting letters), both the older and younger subjects performed better."
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Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Screw the R.A. (Wait, You Already Did)
Elisabeth Eckleman just left home, and has a lot of difficult decisions ahead of her. Sarah Hepola follows Elisabeth’s life and lets you make the tough choices for both of them. In this installment, Elisabeth tells Kat about what’s been going on wit
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Cookie Monster Advocating Eating Healthy
AP: " "Even Cookie Monster is learning to control his cookie cravings," Frist told me by e-mail. "His sage advice opened our eyes to the simple joys of a tasty cookie and now reminds us that moderation is the key to healthy living.""
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What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists - here we bring you some of the most provocative responses
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Where should I go to grad school?
An Ask Metafliter question about going to grad school. Specifically asking about NYU's Media Ecology program.
Wired: ITC tests your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day."
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Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today: "The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity."
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Inflection Points: Personal Discoveries that Redirected Children's Lives
"In the rush to have all our school children 'meet standards' and be taught "what every n'th grader needs to know", we shouldn't forget that some of the most memorable experiences are those which make children yearn to learn more."
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College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds
Washington Post: "College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says."
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"It looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level."
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"The obvious implication of Tom's and similar UX illustrations is that one person can't be expected to demonstrate expertise in all these areas; organizations need to invest in multi-disciplinary *teams* if they're serious about UX."
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Creating Passionate Users: "Give a compelling, personally motivating reason/benefit for the thing you're teaching, before you teach it!"
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The Register: "Schoolchildren are developing a "problem-solving deficit disorder", and losing the ability to analyze."
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Learning a Language in the Digital Age
Some good tips on learning a new language
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An SAT Without Analogies Is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...
NYTimes: "Since the SAT no longer contains analogy questions, here is one: A nation whose citizens cannot tell a true analogy from a false one is like - fill in your own image for precipitous decline."
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Changing world is leaving the SAT behind
As so-called SAT skills gets automated and moved overseas, the test is going to need to adapt to test skills required in the 21st century
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Web Personalization: Technology, Opportunities and Risks
A syllabus that includes some great links
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Washington Post talks about the use of wikis in the classroom
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Understanding the Internet generation
Blake Ross: "I want to understand now why today’s admissions climate makes students crave the decision, what’s unique about my generation that so affords this craving, and how we can make progress toward curing both."
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Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile.
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South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating
Info about the South Korean SMS cheating scandal
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Open Windows Into Your Students' Souls
Build Student Response by Replacing Paper-And-Pen Journals with Online Forums and 'Secret Identities'
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Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End
"It used to be you'd call someone because you had a reason to call," said Ian Johnson, 28, a graduate student at American. "Now you call because you're bored waiting for the bus to come. . . . It's almost a noise pollution."
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Because we don't want to think about things we don't care about . . . makes perfect sense to me
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
Includes: Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources
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Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
How to help Wikipedia succeed
Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community
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Click Clique: Facebook's Online College Community
The Washington Post examines The Facebook
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How two guys snuck into Apple to create software they believed in
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Home page for NYU professor
Students shun search for information offline
Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy.
A bunch of Yale students got Harvard to hold up signs that spelled "We Suck"
When Every Child Is Good Enough
NYTimes uses The Incredibles to understand the divide in education
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Class Begins
In our last installment, Elisabeth went to a party with her roommate Kat, where she met Wesley, a film student. But when Kat turned up sick right as Wesley started to make the moves, Elisabeth had to decide whether to stay at the party or to take Kat home
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Could You Pass 8th-Grade Math in Illinois?
I scored 7/10 . . . that's really not very impressive
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The University Population Online
comScore
How 29 High School freshman got 17 letters published in the Times
Teacher Sends Boy Home With Feces in Bag
If someone shit on my floor I'd probably make them take it home too
A former Harvard professor of W's explains why he can't be trusted
20 Things I Think I Learned in College
20 lessons from four years
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What Your College President Didn't Tell You
A former college president takes some bold stances
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A response to Paul Graham's essay on essays
by Paul Graham
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Librarians are worried about wikipedia
Five Indispensable Tips for Law Students and New Lawyers
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In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards
Power Laws: Hype or Revelation? [ MAS 965 ]
The Underground History of American Education
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Duke to give incoming freshman iPods
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips - News & Technology - CNETAsia
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Computer pioneer Alan Kay talks to Fortune Magazine about the state of computing
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