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How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Up... - 1 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12
     
    Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here.
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 6 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
  • Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13
     
    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
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Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration - 10 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 11 Jan 10
     
    "Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."
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