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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': Where’s the Innovation? Part 1
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Wednesday, October 26, 2011. Where’s the Innovation? Where’s the Innovation? In an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Raises the urgent and important question, “Where Will Innovation Begin? 8221; And, in his conclusion, he asks for feedback and examples. In my next three blogs, I will discuss, with examples, the obstacles faced by existing institutions when they try to innovate, where innovation has already begun. Describes the economic nature o...
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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': There’s a light at the End of the Tunnel #2
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. There’s a light at the End of the Tunnel #2. There’s a light at the End of the Tunnel #2. In early November, I attended a meeting in Orlando called Learning2011. I learned of the meeting from my friend and colleague Cathy Casserly, CEO of the Creative Commons. There are several groups addressing the need for change and the dynamics driving them today in the higher education policy and professional development arena. Educause.
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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': September 2011
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Wednesday, September 28, 2011. You Don’t Need a Weatherman…. You Don’t Need a Weatherman…. Here’s an example. Anya Kamenetz. Caught so many peoples’ attention, recently published a follow-up work, The Edupunk’sGuide to Certificates. Is organized in a sequence of steps that a self-directed learner can take to understand where they are, how they learn, and how to chart and follow a learning path that they select for themselves. The Guide’s. Peter P. Smith.
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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': August 2011
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. When the Tide Goes Out. When the Tide Goes Out. In their recent article, “The Debt Crisis at American Colleges”. Published in The Atlantic Online. 8/23/11) and drawn from their book, Higher Education? Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. The authors calculate and introduce into the equation the massive loan debt that accumulates as a consequence, beggaring future generations and weakening the economy. I have heard it said that R...
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Education and Community: AED Scholar Activity
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Discussion of the contributions of schooling and the broader community in the education of the members of a democratic society. This page includes reports of various activities being carried out by Agenda for Education in a Democracy Scholars. Posted 4 12 11). The other grant, “Growing Inquiring Minds,” involves Parkway School District, St. Louis Public Schools, and the Archdiocese and Lutheran systems. This grant supports summer workshops as well. Posted 2 1 11). Posted 1 31 11). 8 Leadership by Outrage.
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Education and Community: Washington State Happenings
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Discussion of the contributions of schooling and the broader community in the education of the members of a democratic society. From the January WASA Hotline. Published by the Washington Association of School Administrators. Legislative Special Session Adjourns— Regular Session Ready to begin. When legislators adjourned the 2011 Legislative Session in May, they had adopted the 2011–13 Operating Budget. With $723 million in reserve. Supplemental Operating Budget Request. Need to be alert and active in the...
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Education and Community: LODS Updates
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Discussion of the contributions of schooling and the broader community in the education of the members of a democratic society. This page reports updates from the League of Democratic Schools. Jim Strickland, Marysvilled Washington teacher shares the following:. I'm just finishing rereading his Education and the Nature of Man. Published in 1952 with Marie Rasey. Here are a couple of good quotes:. Activities can be judged by observing whether they bring people together or drive them apart. We now know tha...
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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': May 2011
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Who Will Harness the Power of Personal Learning? Who Will Harness the Power of Personal Learning? I recently reconnected with a hero of mine; someone whose star I have navigated by for 40 years: Dr. Allen Tough. As a young community college president in Vermont, I was searching for an organizing principle for adult learning, other than the classroom and the curriculum. It was 1972, so there was no internet and no web. A college that h...
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'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': You Don’t Need a Weatherman…
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Buy Peter's Books Here. Buy Peter's Books Here. Tuesday, September 20, 2011. You Don’t Need a Weatherman…. You Don’t Need a Weatherman. As the old Bob Dylan. Song lyrics told us back in the ‘60’s, “ You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowin’”. And finally comes the soft summer breeze. What technology and disruption will. These are just a few of the myriad possibilities that are available in the emerging “learning” space of high education, enabled by disruptive forces...Peter Smi...
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