By popular demand, here are the slides from my Invisible Learning “stump lecture” from the past month…
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Posts Tagged ‘ Globalization ’
No burger flippers left behind
3/11/2009
About an hour ago, Maya Frost tweeted something utterly disturbing: Not So Global: Share of US public elementary schools teaching foreign language classes drops by 40% in last decade http://tinyurl.com/ak4at9 From the linked article (via Public School Insights): The share of U.S. public elementary schools teaching foreign language has fallen by almost 40% over the [...]
Brooks on the “Cognitive Age”
5/2/2008
David Brooks wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. He states that individuals cannot be successful in a globalized world without building advanced capabilities to transform information into meaningful knowledge: The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a grand competition between nations and [...]
Reversing America’s hidden brain drain
4/8/2008
A few days ago, Minnesota Public Radio‘s Gary Eichten shared a clip of Duke’s Vivek Wadhwa, speaking about his research on the effects of globalization in the United States: After researching the impact of globalization on U.S. competitiveness in the tech industry, Vivek Wadhwa was surprised to see his findings contradict commonly-held ideas. He recently [...]
Five predictions for 2008 and more
1/7/2008
Education Futures is back from winter break! Regular postings will now resume. Photo by darkmatter Looking forward to the rest of this year, here are my predictions of the big stories in the global education world for 2008: Largely driven by the moderate success of OLPC, Linux will emerge as the platform of choice for [...]
Is higher education globalizing? You betcha!
12/7/2007
USC’s Lloyd Armstrong posted a link to a draft article for New Directions in Higher Education (2007, Wiley Periodicals) where he argues that globalization has had a small effect on higher education. In his blog, he writes: But why has higher education responded so slowly to the opportunities and challenges of globalization? I argue that [...]
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