Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesAmerican public education is like WAL-MART. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic. Compared with the stereotype of the East Asian model — long hours of exhaustive cramming and rote memorization … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis question was asked on one of the LinkedIn groups (AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology) I belong to. It got me thinking…. I decided to move my part of the conversation here because the notion interests me. Here’s … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteDonald Clark Plan B: 21st Century Skills are so last century!. Hmmmm… Wonder if formal Education (and the associated formal Educators) will be able to see the irony that’s being highlighted here? I also like Steven Downes’ list: My list … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure? – NYTimes.com. I’ve been saying this for years!!! Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteProblem-solving Paralysis | Action-Reaction. I know my students … dive right in and tinker. So why, when faced with a physics problem, do many students suddenly freeze-up if they can’t see the whole solution right from the outset? How do … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Mark Guzdial’s Blog today: Instruction makes student attitudes on computational modeling worse: Caballero thesis part 3 « Computing Education Blog. I think this is pretty interesting but I can’t say I’m surprised. My reaction: Given the experiences I’ve had … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesYes, Virginia, There Is Knowledge Transfer « iterating toward openness. From David Wiley‘s iterating toward openness blog. The fact that academics are incapable of recognizing that 99-some-percent of all the learning that happens in the world is pure and simple … Continue reading