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daniel rezac

Rival Philosophies, Both Compelling - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by daniel rezac on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Is there an app for improving America’s educational system? Will watching a PowerPoint presentation about the nation’s educational challenge help to understand the opportunities and difficulties facing the country?
  • Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education. And their viewpoints are as different as are their companies (Apple and Microsoft, respectively), presenting a contrast in style and philosophy.
  • Gates hopes to analyze and adjust the education system in order to produce a more efficient and effective learning environment.
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  • Jobs is focused more on individual learning and less on systemic education. Technology is his way to get a well-integrated mind flowing in multiple directions. His learning philosophy gives each person the ability to chart his own course.
  • Gates’ recent speech to the nation’s governors stressed assessment, measuring outcomes and tracking students’ progress. Technology and benchmarking are joined at the hip
  • Jobs’ approach allows for individual experimentation to find a unique solution to each person’s quest. It is the symbol of intellectual multi-tasking. This is a more experimental, integrated search for a holistic view of the universe, one that has multiple access points. Each student becomes his or her own teacher.
  • Gates is studying the science of education. Jobs is creating the art of learning. I’m sure there is an app for teaching arithmetic by watching the heavens and counting the stars
Jay Blackman

Google Not Serious About Online Gaming? This Job Offer Suggests Otherwise - 0 views

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shared by Jay Blackman on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Jay Blackman on 25 Apr 11
     
    Thought I might steal this for the Educast but it might be fun to speculate elsewhere.
James O'Hagan

Predicting success in football and teaching : The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 06 Apr 11 - Cached
  • There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once they’re hired. So how do we know whom to choose in cases like that? In recent years, a number of fields have begun to wrestle with this problem, but none with such profound social consequences as the profession of teaching.
James O'Hagan

The Creativity Crisis: Why American Schools Need Design - Laura Seargeant Richardson - ... - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The European Union declared 2009 as the Year of Creativity, and Chinese faculty actually laughed when they found out the U.S. education trends were in "standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing."
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 13 Apr 11
       
      As we continue to centralize control, the less diverse we become. It's like 1984 with Newspeak.
  • here are approximately 170 occupational classifications that make up "New Work," which can be grouped into five major categories based on the types of knowledge, skills, and aptitudes needed. They are Creative, Education, Social, Technical, and Strategic
  • Ideal job candidates at these companies must now show they can "think with their hands" by having expertise or a second major in a musical instrument, auto repair, or sculpture
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 13 Apr 11
       
      I never considered the music education that I had would improve my three dimensional thinking. That is a fascinating idea that is more like a Duh moment when I think about it now.
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  • STEM's biggest flaw is that it continues to shine a bright light on all things engineering while relegating art and design to a dusty corner.
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