Elmore: Don’t forget that most American high schools are like prison: dismal, authoritarian, mindless, dismal - http://t.co/idq2W0Uf
Innosight has refined its K-12 #blended #learning definition and frameworks based on continuing research - http://t.co/O6TPdKD6
MichaelPetrilli New Research: Having Children Makes You (Relatively) Happier - http://t.co/metEeCeE
Nick Kristof: Wondering just how vicious teenagers can be? Listen to the winners of an essay contest on bullying. http://t.co/hwULzBUy
#MIT’s new president led development of next-generation #MITx and #edX #online #learning platforms - http://t.co/YKdoK1ob
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s tweets translated into English by a volunteer team: http://t.co/fuvr0Ifr https://t.co/04Dye11C
Nieman Lab: In China, visual memes in social media are often the only way to talk about sensitive political issues. http://t.co/9c5mo4Kf
How 10 years of collaborative jams changed IBM (video, resources) - https://t.co/G6bMDaNn
Video introduces edX from MIT and Harvard. #highered #future #disruption #innovation http://t.co/ve65IqEM
edXOnline RT @nytimes: @Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses http://t.co/ZvETTPFg @MITNews @edxonline #edX
Chronicle: Online-learning faces barriers to adoption. [And blended learning? Requires innovative profs.] #highered http://t.co/crHRQxly
Will Richardson: From “old” schools to “bold” schools. Qualities: learner-centered, authentic, connected, transparent. http://t.co/BF7vvj4J
Was 20th century education a monoculture? Are we now seeing evolutionary variations that will become the next plateau? http://t.co/fcu6OiaG
Brooks: Life isn’t a project to be completed; it is an unknowable landscape to be explored thru observation, awareness. http://t.co/Xy4DSsfB
Clayton Christensen: How will you measure your life? By money? Or by the opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute? - http://t.co/sDFjX43C
Agreed! @portlandhead: Web projects fail when decision makers don’t perceive a problem.
Why do online projects fail? Poor governance and unwillingness to address problems right from the start - http://t.co/ueo8yRQS
U Wisconsin releases open-source platform integrating augmented reality, design, thinking, and the power of place - http://t.co/bnhMQYb3
@walterbriggs Face-to-face, whole-person mentoring will still be valuable, but basic instruction will be unbundled. From sage to guide.
@walterbriggs I think the desired outcomes of “an education” are changing rapidly from your credentials to who you become over a lifetime.
@donbwhite “The medieval university was not a campus but a collection of individuals banded together as a universitas” http://t.co/vxGcG9LO
@epersonae Parents, relatives, & counselors will advise against buying a whole degree. Who recommends a whole CD now? Buy songs, make a mix!
@epersonae For instance, maximum payments of 10% of projected income for 10 years.
@epersonae Agreed. The goal of helping people learn obfuscates the practice of giving loans to people who can’t repay. Like mortgages.
@donbwhite Rather than diplomas, respected mentors in a field vet resources and assessments & provide credentials for that field. Unbundled.