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William Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes” | Video on TED.com
William Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes” | Video on TED.com. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Read more
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction – NYTimes.com
Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. via Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction – NYTimes.com. Read more
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Design for Distraction | williamstites.net
The New York times story “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction” point out many of the ways that technology is ingrained in our students lives and what that means for teaching, learning and distraction. Design for Distraction | williamstites.net. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=1248069313108&playerType=embed Read more
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Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity | Video on TED.com
Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity | Video on TED.com. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Read more
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watch « Sir Ken Robinson
watch « Sir Ken Robinson. Read more
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The overblown crisis in American education : The New Yorker
A hundred years ago, eight and a half per cent of American seventeen-year-olds had a high-school degree, and two per cent of twenty-three-year-olds had a college degree. Now, on any given weekday morning, you will find something like fifty million Americans, about a sixth of the population, sitting under the roof of a public-school building,… Read more
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