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Anthony Santagato

The Female Factor - In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise - Series - NYTimes.com - 20 views

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econmic forces and education

shared by Anthony Santagato on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Ten years into the 21st century, most schools in Germany still end at lunchtime, a tradition that dates back nearly 250 years. That has powerfully sustained the housewife/mother image of German lore and was long credited with producing well-bred, well-read burghers.
    • Anthony Santagato
      Anthony Santagato on 19 Jan 10
       
      It's amazing on how much we don't know. I had no idea Germany had a half day school system. I would love to hear what all interested parties think about this traditional system comapared to a full school day? It must be positive socially and economically since Germany has the highest GDP in Europe
  • “The 21st century belongs to women.”
    • Anthony Santagato
      Anthony Santagato on 19 Jan 10
       
      Belongs to woman and what about the children? They should analyze how this all day system impacts youth and society before they throw away this more humane system
  • “The 21st century belongs to women.”
  • Anthony Santagato on 19 Jan 10
     
    Germany moving away from traditional 1/2 day schooling in response to economic demands that require relieving woman of homebound childcare duties
psaunders

www.AllAboutGermany.NET | Moving to Germany | Visiting Germany | Living and W... - 19 views

www.allaboutgermany.net/...gentrification-berlin

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      psaunders on 03 Apr 11
       
      Wouldn't it be better to start with this anecdote. It's got real impact. As it is, it's buried too far down and there's too much tame scene setting to start with. 
  • There’s a sort of proletarian parochialism to be found in Berlin
  • the parochial attitude of many western Berliners towards eastern Berlin
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  • I’ve been to parties and social gatherings there many times where one set of people stay at one end of the room and another -- the newcomers -- at the other end.
  • Gentrification in Berlin has now started to make itself felt in staunchly working class and immigrant Neukoelln
  • A video has recently appeared on YouTube about the phenomena of gentrification in Neukoelln
  • t that time I also had the pleasure of viewing a tiny, squalid, almost windowless one roomed apartment that had just become free for letting in Neukoelln. It had until very recently been previously occupied by a mentally disturbed alcoholic whom the police had found dead drunk on the street a few blocks further down. When the police entered his apartment they found a large collection of knives, hammers, baseball bats, knuckle-dusters, axes and other weapons scattered around the flat. When I visited the now empty apartment, these items were all still laid out on the kitchen table awaiting their removal by the police. Apparently the apartment had also by necessity just been fumigated. Needless to say, I declined to take up a rental contract with the agent for that particular property.
  • can understand some of the points he makes about the superficiality of the hipsters with their “Starbucks standards and expectations” and how they just want to party for a few years before moving on again somewhere else. But I don’t entirely agree with his point of view. Berlin needs newcomers, it needs new creativity and new enterprise. It can’t afford to stagnate and just remain a working class city in a city with little for the working class to do anymore. I find this hostility towards “Aerzte, Architekten und Anwaelte” rather parochial and narrow-minded. Why be against these people? Because they are doing well for themselves? What are they supposed to do? Sweep the streets or draw Stuetze (unemployment benefit)?
  • funny rant, critical of the newcomers and their standardized Latte Macchiato attitudes.  The video was also featured on Dutch TV recently.
ronhustvedt

Exhibit: Kennedy at the Berlin Wall - 13 views

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germany primarysources secondarysources

shared by ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    The Cold War could be said to have centered in Berlin, Germany. Here are some good sources.
Gerald Carey

The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided - The Washington Post - 21 views

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germany washington post berlin maps

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  • Gerald Carey on 31 Oct 14
     
    A good site show how maps of different population data can be used to compare to formerly distinct populations
Roland Gesthuizen

Sudden interest in math -- how teachers can motivate pupils - 25 views

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motivation teaching learning education science PD

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jan 14
     
    "The lack of interest in math or natural sciences is one of the most frequently voiced causes for concern in the debate surrounding education, at least in Germany. It has been seen time and again that pupils lose their enthusiasm for physics, chemistry and math once they reach eighth or ninth grade. But is this inevitable? And if not, how can teachers steer a different course?"
Roland Gesthuizen

Video: A Delightfully Simple Animation About Addiction - DesignTAXI.com - 62 views

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addiction animation video health

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 01 Dec 14
     
    "Germany-based animator and film maker Andreas Hykade has created a simple animation that soundly illustrates what an addiction is like .. The sequence shows how an addiction is formed. Something that starts out harmless eventually changes you for the worse."
Martin Burrett

Social media to blame for poor grades? - 19 views

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social media technology

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  • Martin Burrett on 22 Feb 18
     
    ""Concerns regarding the allegedly disastrous consequences of social networking sites on school performance are unfounded," says Professor Markus Appel, a psychologist who holds the Chair of Media Communication at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. Markus Appel, PhD student Caroline Marker (JMU) and Timo Gnambs from the University of Bamberg have taken a closer look at how the social media use of adolescents correlates with their school grades. "There are several contradictory single studies on this subject and this has made it difficult previously to properly assess all results," Marker says. Some studies report negative impacts of Snapchat & Co., others describe a positive influence and again others do not find any relationship at all."
Martin Burrett

swabr - Das sichere Enterprise Microblogging. Made in Germany. - 21 views

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microblogging social networking Twitter

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  • Martin Burrett on 31 Mar 12
     
    A good site for creating private Twitter-like networks where colleagues can send messages and attach files. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
ronhustvedt

Eyewitness - 37 views

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primarysources secondarysources historyday archives database library childlabor civilrights womensuffrage womenmedical germany nixon atomic yalta cubanmissilecrisis johnadams apollo

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  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    Great photos here for some of your topics...
sha towers

Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist - 27 views

www.economist.com/17723223

phd academia university education doctoral degrees

shared by sha towers on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders complain about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
  • A graduate assistant at Yale might earn $20,000 a year for nine months of teaching. The average pay of full professors in America was $109,000 in 2009
  • America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships.
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  • PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly underbelly of academia”, do much of the research these days.
  • In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
  • About one-third of Austria’s PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees. In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations. In the Netherlands the proportion is 21%.
  • In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrolment. In the humanities, where most students pay for their own PhDs, the figure is 49%.
  • in 1966 only 23% of science and engineering PhDs in America were awarded to students born outside the country. By 2006 that proportion had increased to 48%. Foreign students tend to tolerate poorer working conditions, and the supply of cheap, brilliant, foreign labour also keeps wages down.
  • The earnings premium for a PhD is 26%. But the premium for a master’s degree, which can be accomplished in as little as one year, is almost as high, at 23%
  • PhDs in maths and computing, social sciences and languages earn no more than those with master’s degrees
  • the skills learned in the course of a PhD can be readily acquired through much shorter courses.
  • In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were doing their doctorate partly to go on being a student, or put off job hunting.
  • The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors’ publication records.
  • Writing lab reports, giving academic presentations and conducting six-month literature reviews can be surprisingly unhelpful in a world where technical knowledge has to be assimilated quickly and presented simply to a wide audience.
  • Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year’s new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    article from the Economist "The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Mr Agraz

Factbox: German cities ban older diesel cars - Reuters - 5 views

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market failure negative externalities regulation

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  • Mr Agraz on 08 Jan 20
     
    Diesel cars banned in some German city downtown areas
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