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Blair Peterson

Don't Fail Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 15 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • We polled 70,000 kids in fifth through 12th grade and found that students who are engaged, who are on the thriving end of the wellbeing scale, and who are hopeful are approximately four times more likely to qualify as financially literate than disengaged, suffering, or discouraged students.
  • A Gallup study showed that 77% of students in grades five through 12 said that they want to be their own boss, and 45% plan to start their own business. When we asked the same group if they believed they would "invent something that changes the world," 42% said "yes."
  • When Gallup-HOPE asked these kids if they were currently interning with a local business, 5% said "yes." So there are about 23 million kids in an entrepreneurial state of mind, but 95% of them aren't getting the attention they need to become entrepreneurs. However, our research also shows that if we can move that 5% up to 25%, we can change the world.
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  • One more key point: 30 years of Gallup data show that when people have jobs that fit their talents and when they are engaged in their work, they are much, much happier. They are also more productive, healthier, and more economically profitable. If we give talented kids what they need to launch themselves as entrepreneurs and then show them how to be engaged and what their strengths are, we can guarantee them a happier, better life.
Blair Peterson

Lafayette conference focuses on shifting conversation about liberal arts' value | Insid... - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 15 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Rosenberg said colleges probably have to do a better job of connecting what students are learning in the classroom to what’s going on in the world around them, to further the argument that liberal arts colleges provide a social good.
  • And they acknowledged that liberal arts colleges, which bill themselves as being the best form of undergraduate education, should constantly be striving to be on the cutting edge of good instruction.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 15 Apr 12
       
      Interesting comment. Wonder how this will be used 10 years from now.
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  • But liberal arts colleges are reluctant to expand in size out of fear of diminishing the quality of their experience. Their small-class and residential-campus models are expensive to provide, as are the financial aid programs they deploy to ensure diverse student bodies. Administrators fear breaking down the four-year, full-time model, which they believe is crucial to developing well-rounded students. And the liberal arts curriculum isn’t necessarily tied to preparing students for a specific career, and certainly not a single job
  • Despite significant looming challenges related to affordability, access, public skepticism about value, changing student demographics, and the influence of technology on students and education -- which all the attendees readily acknowledged -- most of the presidents of the liberal arts colleges here this week aren’t planning on substantively changing to how their institutions operate or their economic models.
  • Blair Peterson on 15 Apr 12
     
    Interesting comments from liberal arts colleges. Some think that the liberal arts colleges are not preparing kids for the future. I had no idea that they only enroll 5% of all students. Many are small elite universities. 
Blair Peterson

Global Competence: The Knowledge and Skills Our Students Need | Asia Society - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 19 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Missing in this formula for a world-class education is an urgent call for schools to produce students that actually know something about the world--its cultures, languages and how its economic, environmental and social systems work. 
  • Global competence starts by being aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works. 
  • Globally competent students recognize that they have a particular perspective, and that others may or may not share it. 
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  • Globally competent students understand that audiences differ on the basis of culture, geography, faith, ideology, wealth, and other factors and that they may perceive different meanings from the same information. 
  • What skills and knowledge will it take to go from learning about the world to making a difference in the world?
  • Globally competent students see themselves as players, not bystanders. 
  • Global competence requires that the capacities described above be both applied within academic disciplines and contextualized within each discipline's methods of inquiry and production of knowledge.
  • Blair Peterson on 19 Feb 11
     
    The focus of this article is not technology. It's on global competence. 
Blair Peterson

Thoughts on 'The Elephant in the Room' | ThomsonScience - 0 views

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  • For example, instead of plain old motion and forces, the unit relates to car safety as a real application of physics ideas. I have many places where I can still improve on this, but it’s a start!
  • ”If only we could shrink some topics, we could expand others that offer much more. For instance, basic statistics and probability generally get little attention compared to quadratic equations and multiple linear equations, but they come up constantly in public policy, economic reports and forecasts, health and insurance decisions, investing, and gambling.”
  • move far enough, fast enough that we can’t go back.”
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  • Push forward with curriculum (content) changes that are big enough and happen fast enough that there’s no turning back to the old ways.
  • Blair Peterson on 15 Apr 11
     
    Interesting blog post on curriculum that may be tired today.
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The Teacher Cloud - 1 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • First and foremost, it suggests that providing Internet access and a computing device to every student should be of the highest priority
  • As I’ve said before in this space, denying access to the amazing wealth of information and knowledge online is akin to abuse these days, regardless of the economic circumstances.
  • But it does mean that the adults in the classrooms of my children need to take on a different role: not as those who mete out the curriculum in small bites and then assess students to make sure it’s been digested, but as guides who are supporting learning at every turn.
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  • But after years of schooling, most of our children are waiting for the teacher to tell them what to learn, when to learn it, and how they’ll be assessed as to whether or not they learned it.
  • What if we as teachers saw ourselves as part of a much bigger “cloud” of adults whose main role was to develop and support the enthusiasm for learning that our children innately bring with them to school but that we all too often temper in our zeal to “deliver” the curriculum? T
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 03 Apr 11
       
      Interesting idea - "Cloud" of adults who facilitate learning.
  • Our students live in a world where they need us less and less from a content, knowledge and information standpoint.
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