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Another Report on Online Education Benefits
Here is a post from NPR that provides some great facts and conclusions about Online Education Benefits and why it is the wave of the future. Report on Online Education in the US Chasing The Elusive 'Quality' In Online Education by ANYA KAMENETZ June 27, 2014 8:03 AM...
The Difficulty to Building Consensus is on clear display with Religion on Wikipedia. But there are solutions. Like Separating Facts and Conclusions, and transparency to the source.
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
Atlantis Learning Community Flips the Traditional Educational Models
Traditional Adult Education has it backwards. Today, we start by paying for a class ($2,000+). Then we read the book or listen to the expert. Finally, we take the assessment. This process should be flipped. We should start with a "FREE" high level assessment. Then...
Education for Life might be possible if it is Subscription based, say 2 Wharton Profs. I agree. And I add to that idea.
I agree with two Wharton Professors; education should be Subscription based. That is the best way to stimulate "Education for Life." And I would add that the various levels of subscription should depend on the amount of effort on the part of the Faculty and...
A Creationist Cartoon Offers an Opportunity for the Learning Community to Understand Confirmation Bias
Someone, most probably a Creationist, at the Henry Grady High School in Atlanta tried to use a cartoon in a freshman biology class that showed evolution, humanism, homosexuality, pornography, racism, euthanasia, divorce and abortion as the work of Satan and at war...
Top 6 Living Skills to Master for 2014 and Beyond
I was cleaning out my email inbox (something I needed to do for a long time) and I came across a report that listed the Top 12 Skills for 2012. It got me thinking what are the top skills one needs to succeed. Using the report as a starting point here is my list....
Story about “Unemployment” Numbers is Opportunity to Find “Actionable” Information
Here is an email I got this morning: Wednesday's ADP number suggested a sub-200K reading for today's May BLS jobs report. That would be a significant disappointment after April's robust 288K. But ADP is far from a flawless indicator. So estimates for today's number...
The Impacts of the Printing Press are: The Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment.
The impacts of the Printing Press are the Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment. In the essay below, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, presents a thoughtful and I think very important conclusion. As she puts it: The impact of printing, experienced first by literate groups...
The Internet is to our Age as the Printing Press was to the Reformation and Age of Enlightnment
The problem for anyone that locks their world view into the 1st century bible is we live in a 21st century digital age. It is very hard to copy the Torah, it is less hard to copy the Bible, and infinitely easy to copy 21st century digital bits. The fact that we can...
Noise is the Fundamental Obstacle to Learning
Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason is "Noise." There are a number of environmental and biological...
2 Types of Learning: Learning something new and Learning to Change
Of the two types of learning, learning something new is relatively easy compared to learning to change. There are some surface things you may be able to change, but at the core, change is almost impossible. Use the earth as an example. The "Core" changes rarely,...
It is the Guide on the Side; Not the Sage on the Stage
Giving Constructive Feedback without making people angry
A Leadership IQ study found that 81% of leaders avoid giving tough feedback because they’re afraid the recipient will respond will react badly (with anger, denial, blame or excuses). How do we expect our organizations and employees to improve if we’re afraid to give...
Words to Avoid
There are certain words we hear in conversation that can instantly set us off. They're the kind of words that our brains hear as attacks and thus prompt us to react defensively (and sometimes even aggressively). In a recent study, we discovered a whole slew of...
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech…and why your words barely matter! Published on July 10, 2012 by Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, M.D. in Words Can Change Your Brain I’d like you to take a moment to experience the following sentence, taken from a...
An Introduction to the School of Open
Every generation since the beginning of human existence has passed its value system, principles, methodologies, and skillsets on to the next generation. This passing on of information within cultures has been followed by the development of a systematic approach to...
How do you determine if the Story about the Galileo is a “Myth” or not?
I came across the following at http://www.bede.org.uk/sciencehistory.htm written by James Hannam in 2002: The greatest of the secular myths is Galileo Galilei as a martyr for science. The epic battle between the forces of reason and truth and the dark superstitions of...
Change is Needed in Education
Education is hopelessly antiquated and crippled by 1st Century fears and 18th Century assembly-line work rules. Until the religious, political, and economic stranglehold on the world's school's is broken, there is virtually no hope things will change. Teachers should...
There Should be 2 Tests in a Class. One at the beginning of the Class. The other at the end.
Learning is about growth. Learning is about change. While learning should be about meeting a specific goal, it should be measured more by the amount of change. If the test is given at the beginning of the class and at the end of the class, everyone will have a better...
Education should be about “Constructive or Destructive;” Not about “Liberal or Conservative.”
Education should be about solving problems, not about "liberal or Conservative." Education should be about solving problems and making effective predictions. This means that the goals of education have to be completely changed from forcing conformity to a fixed...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can be Different Today and Why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The traditional teaching model is for the teacher to stand in front of the class and work their way though a "curriculum." And in most cases, I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...
21st Century Education Suggestion: Forget an Classroom MBA! Get an “Experience MBA!”
Because of our domestication of the electron in the 1800s and the ultimate implementation of that domestication in the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), we are the first generation that has access to extreme self-education. Proximity to a classroom or a library...
The 15 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Must Learn: Forbes
Forbes | By Steven KotlerPosted: 09/06/2013 3:46 pm EDT In the middle of the economic meltdown that was 2007-2009, James Marshall Reillynoticed a particular new breed of high-minded entrepreneur who, well, didn’t seem to be melting. It was peculiar all right. Not...
10 OpenCourseWare Sites for a Free Education
1. MIT While not the first university to adopt OpenCourseWare (OCW), MIT's initiative started the movement in 2002. Many other universities followed suit. Still one of the best OCW programs out there, MIT offers materials from 2,150 courses in business, engineering,...
Education Secretary: Tech Will Never Replace Great Teachers
nbsp; Everyone wants to hangout with Sal Khan. The popular founder of the innovative Khan Academy is a good person to rub elbows with — even if you're the Obama administration's top education official. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan fielded Khan's questions about...
2 Types of Learning: Learning something new and Learning to Change
Of the two types of learning, learning something new is relatively easy compared to learning to change. Change is very hard. almost impossible.
10 Skills of Confident People
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. 1. They take...
Because of 21st Technology – Facts are misleading, Everyone is an Expert, and the Smartest person in the Room can be anywhere in the World!
Because of 21st Century Technology the world of Facts and Conclusions have changed. This is based on the Book Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room by by David...
Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner initially formulated a list of seven intelligences. His listing was provisional. The first two have been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called ‘personal...
“Singularities” are the Key Challenge in the 21st Century
We know how to build the same widget a billion times over! We know how to do very large stuff really well. We have masters economics of Scale. What we need to learn to do now is the opposite of scaling up; we need to learn to scale down! Dell started it in the 70's...
Phil Jackson Uses “Learning Communities!”
In a Review of Phil Jackson's new book, Eleven Rings (for the 11 championship rings won by Jackson), Dave Logan says, "Jackson was successful because he turned the teams he coached into learning communities." They were learning communities because he learning from...
Is the crowd wiser than a lone genius?
Yes! No! A crowd is not always wiser than a long genius. But, since genius is rare a crowd is often better. A crowd working together could be wiser than a crowd led by an individual. A crowd is not a team, but a team could be a crowd. All things being equal, a team is...
Victor Hugo – An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted
The star possesses no anger; the dawn bears no malice. Light issatisfied in being light. Light is everything; the human race has no other love. France knows herself beloved because she is good, and...
Brookings Institute – Should Everyone Go to College? Answer No!
Should everyone go to college - A new Report from the Brookings Institute Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill Brookings Institute May 2013 Should Everyone go to College? Of course not! "Everyone" should not do "Something." While, we all know that "on average" going to...