Sarah Lacy has written article on TechCrunch covering her interview with Peter Thiel. It neatly gets to the heart of the problem with higher education…
Reported by the Yale Daily News, Yale University has put its planned switch to Google Apps for Education on hold. It seems IT went ahead with the decision to switch without first consulting their customers – the students and teachers who will be using the system. When they notified people, concerns were raised.
“People were mainly interested in technical questions like the mechanics of moving, wondering ‘Could we do it?’ But nobody asked the question of ‘Should we do it?’ ” Michael Fischer, computer science professor.
Some of the concerns raised should be a lesson to all providers of cloud computing…
An amazing talk delivered by Marja Brandon at Microsoft in 2004. Marja believed that education was failing to take advantage of advances in neuroscience that have led us to better understand how we learn. She founded a school and based teaching around 4 core skills
- Critical and creative thinking
- Problem posing and solving
- Bold thinking – don’t think outside the box, live outside the box
- Community connectedness – connect everything they do to the real world
Marja built a new school curriculum based around 9 brain rules…
The common perception is that online or virtual training courses are no substitute for the real thing: a classroom with a teacher or professional. Yet research published in the New Scientist begs to differ. A programme in West Africa created to pass on new technologies and techniques to women farmers adopted two approaches: 1. watch [...]
Over the past month, I’ve listened to Baroness Susan Greenfield three times. First, reading an article in The Sunday Times. Second, in the audience at one of her talks. Third, hearing an interview on the radio. The same topic came up at all three events (not surprising, since she has a new book to promote) [...]
