Posting at Education Futures has been somewhat sparse as I’ve been taking Education 3.0 and the Society 3.0 framework on a road trip in Latin America, China, and now: Czech Republic. Over the next few days, I will meet with faculty and students at Charles University (Prague), Masaryk University (Brno), and Metropolitan University in Prague. [...]
"Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense."
-Gertrude Stein
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Thank you!
11/5/2008
The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event. I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online: Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA] Guillermo Lutzky (Video) [...]
Yes, we can!
11/4/2008
I’m in Mexico until late this election night. I voted absentee, and I hope you’re voting, too. (Sí, se puede!)
Canadians think smaller is better (among universities)
10/23/2008
Canada’s undergraduate university students have given the country’s smallest universities higher ratings than the large institutions for overall satisfaction and quality of education. This is one of the findings of The Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report available in today’s newspaper and online at www.globecampus.ca. The Report is presented in association with The Strategic Counsel [...]
Simple + Streamlined + Slick = Chrome
10/13/2008
I thought I would start my week of ‘guest blogging’ by introducing a new tech tool. Have you heard of Chrome? It is the new search engine by Google. Wired magazine had a great article titled “Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web“. I thought I would chime in and give [...]
E-Competencies deadline this Friday
9/22/2008
This is just a reminder that the submission deadline to participate in this FLACSO-México, University of Minnesota and University of Toronto co-organized event on e-competencies and e-skills is coming up this Friday (September 26). Participants can join in person or virtually, and need not present to join the event (although presentations are encouraged!). We [...]
Edison High School is poised to Leapfrog
8/18/2008
[Cross-posted from Leapfrog Institutes newswire.] Last March, Minneapolis Public Schools announced that Edison High School and Washburn High School will be overhauled in response to under-performance. As part of the “fresh start” agenda, nearly all staff members at each school received notice that their contracts would not be renewed, and they would have to reapply [...]
Is college a waste of time?
8/14/2008
An essay by Charles Murray on the opinion page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contains a provocative statement promoting the substitution of focused competency certificates for the BA degree. He writes: Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a bachelor’s degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant [...]
A million paper airplanes
8/12/2008
Futurelab, in collaboration with the UK’s Department for Children School and Families, has created Million Futures. The project aims to identify what people think are the biggest challenges facing education in the future. Visit this new website and write your thoughts about future life and learning on virtual paper planes which you can launch into [...]
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