most of the students I see are not so much disengaged as poorly trained for university expectations. Students' ability to do analysis and synthesis seems to have been replaced by rote memorization and regurgitation in both the sciences and the humanities. This is a complaint that I hear from instructors in senior high-school classes through to professors in the humanities.
Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25 - Video Games Reviews, Cheat... - 0 views
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David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite. Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools. Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations, and basic computer use skills. But that has replaced more computer science-like skills such as basic programming and understanding the architecture and hardware contained in a computer.
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MBA study notes,guide,articles,tips of gmat,university guide, presentations,definitions and other helping stuff for mba students..www.myeasymba.blogspot.com
Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? | University Affairs - 1 views
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students do not really understand what they are doing even when they have covered the material in high school.
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More important is the ability to relate these facts in new ways, to see them in a new light, and to bring quite disparate ideas together to solve new problems or create new forms of art. This ability to analyze and synthesize is what makes good scientists, writers, philosophers and artists. It is the ability needed to drive a knowledge-based economy.
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Keith helps people in organizations innovate and manage complexity by working with groups to unleash creativity, discover opportunities and build on momentum. A founding partner of the Social Invention Group, his eclectic skills are grounded in business management, organization development, complexity science, strategy development, and graphic facilitation... all with an improvisational twist.
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