Category: Articles
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6 Digital Learning Accelerants | Getting Smart
A handful of smart people called yesterday in search of digital learning accelerants–an handful of initiatives that would speed the adoption of personal digital learning print to digital, sequential to adaptive, time to learning, isolation to teams, static to mobile, short day/year to anywhere/anytime. Here’s six: via 6 Digital Learning…
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Career and Technical Education: Research Roundup | Edutopia
Career academies have been around in one form or another for four decades, but these days they’re in a groove. It’s not often in education research that numerous studies reach similar conclusions on the same subject. So reform-minded educators and lawmakers paid heed to the positive notices for career and…
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Learning That Works – TIME
Vocational education used to be where you sent the dumb kids or the supposed misfits who weren’t suited for classroom learning. It began to fall out of fashion about 40 years ago, in part because it became a civil rights issue: voc-ed was seen as a form of segregation, a…
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[Questioning our assumptions about brainstorming] Ideas From Anywhere | Futurelab
Jonah Lehrer’s new book on creativity seems to be getting quoted in all sorts of places which is a sure sign that it’s got some interesting thinking in it. One such thought is around just how inadequate brainstorming is for the purpose for which it is commonly deployed – the…
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America’s War on Drugs Drives High Incarceration Rates – TIME
Televangelist Pat Robertson recently made a gaffe. A gaffe, as journalist Michael Kinsley defined it, occurs when a political figure accidentally tells the truth. Robertson’s truth is that America’s drug war has failed and that the country should legalize marijuana. This view goes against the deepest political, moral and religious…
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A Parent’s Guide to 21st-Century Learning | Edutopia
Discover the tools and techniques today’s teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow — and how you can get involved.What should collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking look like in a modern classroom? How can parents help educators accomplish their goals? We hope this guide helps bring…
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The changing nature of knowledge: KMWorld
David Weinberger recently talked with Hugh McKellar, editor in chief of KMWorld, about how the new knowledge-networked knowledge-will forever change the way we understand everything. Weinberger is the author of the seminal new book, TOO BIG TO KNOW: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere,…
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Knowledge retention: What practitioners need to know: KMWorld
With increasingly competitive environments and struggling economies, today’s organizations are trying to stay afloat in rough waters. Internal and external pressures are placing demands on organizations that are affecting their competitive edge. Those organizations that are “continuously learning,” adaptive and agile will be the most likely to survive. Part of…
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A look at improving knowledge management: KMWorld
Even though the field of knowledge management KM has been around for 15 to 20 years, it is still evolving and has room for improvement. When we look at the business environment today, we see a graying work force. With four generations in the work force in many countries, we’ll…
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Learning like a developer learns: KMWorld
If you want to see the future—and who doesn’t?—the place to begin your search is now. It’s not only that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, as William Gibson has put it. Sometimes it’s all around us and we just haven’t noticed. If you want to see the…
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