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shared by Patrick Higgins on 13 Feb 10 - Cached

I myself learned from good lectures when I was in college. A lecture combined with other high-impact learning experiences can do quite well. But a lecture every day?
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On the one hand, we’ve put into place many of the technologies necessary for us to change, but on the other, we’ve used those technologies mostly to reinforce what we’ve always done (except for those exciting “high-impact learning experiences”). When I think of some uses of technology, I keep getting the image of using cars, when they first were mass-produced, to pull plows.
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shared by Patrick Higgins on 01 Feb 10 - Cached

shared by Patrick Higgins on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

shared by Patrick Higgins on 12 Aug 09 - Cached

Students in the future will be as likely to be evaluated on their portfolio of work, as they are on their grades.
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If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news
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But the most important thing about that was, I learned how to be obsessed with things... I got obsessed with these things and I had a series of stages in my life where I got obsesses with something else. And I just immersed myself to learn as much as I could. And it's that mechanism I used again and again and again in my professional life. So how do you teach kids to be obsessed with things?
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shared by Erica Hartman on 08 May 09 - No Cached

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