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 Lisa Durff

Executive Summary | Office of the Provost | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA - 0 views

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    "new and accelerating revolution characterized by technology-driven disruptive change throughout society, shifting public attitudes about the role of public universities, and demographic trends that challenge long-held assumptions about who will benefit from a college education."
 Lisa Durff

Inspiring young minds to innovate | eSchool News - 0 views

  • Schools play a critical role in developing these abilities in students,
    •  Lisa Durff
       
      I could disagree more with this statement! Schools have nothing to do with it - people do - some of us are called teachers, some are called relatives; some we meet F2F, some we only meet in virtual spaces.
  • Peter Drucker
  • seven sources of systemic innovation for developing solutions to major problems,
    •  Lisa Durff
       
      So where is the requirement that these analytical thinking skills be learned in a place called school? 
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  • Innovation occurs when people collaborate and stretch beyond the information-gathering phase of problem-solving
    •  Lisa Durff
       
      Well said! Let's collaborate and innovate today!
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    I could disagree more with this statement! Schools have nothing to do with it - people do - some of us are called teachers, some are called relatives; some we meet F2F, some we only meet in virtual spaces.
 Lisa Durff

Should the U.S. Follow South Korea's Education System? - WSJ.com - 0 views

    •  Lisa Durff
       
      A closely guarded market! When 5 Americans (me among them) went to Korea to teach English we had to declare we were tourists at the border.  We were indeed volunteers.
  • South Korea has dramatically improved its education system over the past several decades and now routinely outperforms the U.S.
  • South Korean 15-year-olds rank No. 2 in the world in reading
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  • 93% high-school graduation rate
    •  Lisa Durff
       
      BUT they are ready for? factory jobs. The desks are typically nailed down in rows and teachers expected to lecture for 3 hours. I disrupted that idea rather quickly and my grammar class performed super well.
  • In South Korea, if parents aren't engaged, that is considered a failure of the educators, not the family.
 Lisa Durff

12 tech trends higher education cannot afford to ignore | Education Dive - 0 views

    •  Lisa Durff
       
      Disruption is my middle name!
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