I think that the U.S. school system would benefit from a dual system in high school where young people who are interested in doing or making things with their hands, for instance, could have high quality vocational programs or schools that would equip them with the skills they need to find jobs or employ themselves.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: What Will Finland Do Next? - 2 views
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First, curriculum in vocational schools was adjusted closer to the standards of academic high school.
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Second, a significant proportion of vocational studies was shifted to real work places where students are able to learn in practice the knowledge and skills they need in their future jobs.
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Digital Learning Resources : The Paradigm Shift - MarkTreadwell.com - 0 views
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"Educators and learners can find below some libraries of Creative Commons licensed Digital Content for use within Learning Management Systems such as the KnowledgeNET. Please check the individual rights associated with each object as these vary from object to object. As long as you work within the guidelines provided you can use this material without violating the rights assigned to it. "
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 16 views
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Learning, as a self-organizing process requires that the system (personal or organizational learning systems) “be informationally open, that is, for it to be able to classify its own interaction with an environment, it must be able to change its structure…”
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Vaill emphasizes that “learning must be a way of being – an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…” (1996, p.42).
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