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Waiting for Superman — Pledge to see the film
Looks like this is going to be an important movie.
A great infographic video from the creative studio Buck
TakePart: Participant Media - Waiting For 'Superman' - Infographic from Jr.canest on Vimeo.
If you're inspired, Pledge to watch the movie
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Read More The National Education Technology Plan and BettrAt
Earlier this month, The US Department of Education released its National Education Technology Plan.
The NETP is driven by two clear goals by 2020:
We will raise the proportion of college graduates from where it now stands [39%] so that 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree.
We...
Read More Formal vs informal education, by Joi
I keep meaning to hat-tip to startup hero, Joi for this wonderful post on Formal vs Informal education but I kept forgetting until I looked through my recent bookmarks today.
The good parts:
Despite my completely dysfunctional relationship with formal learning, I've been able to learn enough to run companies, give talks...
Read More The Art of Learning from a Peer, Colleague, or Friend
Came across this article, entitled "The Art of Learning from a Colleague" HBR by Steven DeMaio about learning from a colleague.
Here's the A-ha moment in the passage:
Indeed, my best learning experiences are when I get to see how someone else's mind works. That usually doesn't come with...
Read More 25 Ways to Rebuild America: Education gets high marks
Apologies for the blog hiatus, Kevin and I (Ash) went away on an international trip and got back a week ago and just getting back into the swing of things here at BettrAt. We continue to push forward and will be piloting BettrAt with some local groups. ...
Read More The School of One is one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009
The School of One is one of Time magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2009
This past summer, in a sixth-grade math class, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based learning takes the place of the old "let's all proceed together" approach. Each day,...
Read More This is from Albert Einstein’s autobiography
This is from Albert Einstein's autobiography. Whoa.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to...
Read More US DoE: Online learning kicks [regular] academia’s tail
The US Department of Education put out a study about online learning last month that I just came across from an NYTimes article. Bodes well.
Some key findings:
Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional...
Read More Getting better at stuff: Not just for poindexters anymore
I had a conversation with Hugh (the associate dean of the Institute of Design) today about his son Morley's high school which sounds completely amazing and reminded me of this article in Wired I read recently, called "Making Geeks Cool Could Reform Education"
I've worked on various education related projects in...
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