I like conceptual maps –tools for illustrating the relationships among ideas– and, Tero Heiskanen created an interesting one. It’s huge. Without any further commentary: Settlers of the shift is an open map of experts, organizations and ideas that are scattered around the globe. It’s for people whose work is shifting us towards a better tomorrow [...]
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Repost: 10 ways U.S. education is failing to produce creatives
Our third item this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity is a repost of our top ten list of how U.S. education is failing to create students that will succeed in creative, knowledge- and innovation-based economies (first published last June). We apologize for beating a dead horse, but No Child Left Behind [...]
Does state-mandated free software permit freedom?
Tailing the news that India is making Linux compulsory in schools, the Russian government is working to create a national operating system for schools: Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, [...]
Top ten list #7: Ways U.S. education is failing to produce creatives
Today’s list discusses how U.S. education is failing to create students that will succeed in creative, knowledge- and innovation-based economies. Not surprisingly, No Child Left Behind heads-off this list as failure #1: No Child Left Behind. NCLB is producing exactly the wrong products for the 21st Century, but is right on for the 1850′s through [...]
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