Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education - WSJ.com - 2 views
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For the same $7,000 a year that New York City spends per student on school buses, you can now get a master's from one of the most well-respected programs in the country.
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Students who worked with online content passed at a higher rate than classroom-only students, 91% to 60%
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Today's job market—whether you're designing new drugs, fracking for oil, writing mobile apps or marketing Pop Chips—requires graduates who can think strategically in real time, have strong cognitive skills, see patterns, work in groups and know their way around highly visual virtual environments. This is the same generation that grew up playing online games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but who are almost never asked to use their online skills in any classroom.
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How Schools Can Teach Innovation - WSJ.com - 5 views
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problems can never be understood or solved in the context of a single academic discipline
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all courses are interdisciplinary and based on the exploration of a problem or new opportunity.
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young innovators are intrinsically motivated. T
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When Gaming Is Good for You - WSJ.com - 2 views
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Other studies have found an association between compulsive gaming and being overweight, introverted and prone to depression
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The violent action games that often worry parents most had the strongest beneficial effect on the brain.
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In contrast, using cellphones, the Internet, or computers for other purposes had no effect on creativity,
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Should the U.S. Follow South Korea's Education System? - WSJ.com - 0 views
A Peek Into the Future: What College Will Be Like in 10 Years - WSJ.com - 51 views
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the learning experience students receive will probably be fundamentally different from the one they get today.
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online classes that let students learn at their own pace, drawing on materials from schools across the country—not just a single professor and a hefty textbook.
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Traditionally, schools have been judged by how many prospective students they turn away, not by how many competent graduates they churn out.
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The Dicey Calculus of Contemporary Cooking - WSJ.com - 37 views
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What's the difference between a 10-inch skillet and a 12-inch skillet?
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Not just a mere two inches. The larger pan has 44% more surface area.
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the rate of evaporation of a liquid is proportional to its exposed surface area, a sauce in a larger, flatter skillet will reduce far more rapidly than one in a taller, narrower pan
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An Apple for Your Teacher - WSJ.com - 0 views
How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 2 views
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what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
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it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
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Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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Science: A New Map of the Human Brain - WSJ.com - 75 views
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results - WSJ - 17 views
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a shift from its founding philosophy of “organizing the world’s information,” to one that is far more active in deciding how that information should appear.
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Google keeps blacklists to remove certain sites or prevent others from surfacing in certain types of results. These moves are separate from those that block sites as required by U.S. or foreign law,
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Far from being autonomous computer programs oblivious to outside pressure, Google’s algorithms are subject to regular tinkering from executives and engineers who are trying to deliver relevant search results, while also pleasing a wide variety of powerful interests and driving its parent company’s more than $30 billion in annual profit.
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Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? - WSJ - 84 views
Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: 'Nonsense on Top of Nonsense' - Metropolis - WSJ - 18 views
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An agent I had years ago said just because it’s nonprofit and educational, don’t let them not pay you, because they’re making money.
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They basically turned it into test-ese.
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and I must interject that I admire the job they did, because it makes even less sense than mine
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