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Kim Breuninger

Bill Gates Announces $20 Million Program to Expand Educational Technology - 0 views

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shared by Kim Breuninger on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Kim Breuninger on 18 Oct 10
     
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative. This multi-year project aims to help improve both college readiness and college completion in the U.S. through the use of technology. Administered through the nonprofit EDUCAUSE, the program will provide grants to organization that will help develop technology tools to more teachers, students, and schools.
  • Kim Breuninger on 18 Oct 10
     
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative.
Laura Mikowychok

A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Laura Mikowychok on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • But in recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers: drugs that high-functioning, overcommitted people take to become higher-functioning and more overcommitted. (Such use is “off label,” meaning that it does not have the approval of either the drug’s manufacturer or the Food and Drug Administration.) College campuses have become laboratories for experimentation with neuroenhancement
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      Laura Mikowychok on 24 Apr 09
       
      This article was interesting to me because in an interview with the author, she stated that these drugs enhance cognition in more logical, left-brained skills, and decrease creative thinking. Clearly, students feel that the skills they are being challenged to remember, retain, and perform best in are those left-brain subject areas, rather than being challenged in the arts, communication, and creativity.
Vernice Mulcahy

2¢ Worth - 0 views

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web2.0

shared by Vernice Mulcahy on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Higher education doesn’t reflect the life that students are living. In that life, information is available on demand, files are shared, and the world is mobile and connected. Today’s colleges, on the other hand, are typically “tethered, isolated, generic, and closed.”
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