The Use of Technology in Education
Video designed to stimulate the use of technology in education. A challenge to teachers and business people alike for the development of the first generation to grow up in a digital world.
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60% of college students don't get a successful education - wasting billions and billions of dollars annually. Richard Light conducts a survey of Harvard students to find out what advice can help students be more likely to succeed.
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Gardner outlines five premium thinking abilities: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.
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The Power of Knowledge in the Hands of the People
Wikipedia, Wikiseek and Gutenberg are parallel technologies centuries apart that made knowledge and the power of knowledge available to the masses.
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Capturing Inspiration, Getting Things Done
Dan Wooldridge, a confessed addict of the simple and elegant Moleskine notebooks encourages you to capture your inspiration and thinking in writing.
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Now That's Worldview Formation
AdAge asked a bunch of really smart business leaders "how they continuously educate themselves to keep up with the shifting digital and cultural landscapes." Here’s what they said (and what InsideWork has to say about what they said).
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TED, the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference held in Monterey, California each February, has joined with BMW to offer TEDTalks
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How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change
Our habits of thinking, our assumptions about the world can trap us. How do we recognize trends and spot change earlier? How do we overcome our personal and organizational assumptions that keep us from seeing?
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Looking for Patterns in the News
I think it was Karl Barth who said Christians should greet the day with the New York Times in one hand and the Bible in the other. This may be the earliest reference to Information Grazing.
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Whether we see it or not, there’s an element of imagination in Bible-reading just as there is in reading history, poetry and narrative stories - if we weren’t there, we can only imagine what it’s like.
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Reading articles on the rise in the Wholesale Price Index in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times today reminded me of the Proverb about the “prudent person.” The first half of Proverbs 14:8 says, …
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