The Story of Education in 2013: Smart Tech, Standards and Disruptive Change
Earlier this month, MindShift predicted the top three education stories we’ll be hearing about in 2013: 1) Smart use of …Read the Rest
Category Archives: Higher Learning
Measuring What Really Counts in Education
The College Board reports this week that SAT scores fell dramatically, ” to the lowest level in four decades on the college-entrance …Read the Rest
Out of the Classroom and into the Street with Cognitive Science Safaris
More Curiosity Driven Learning in the news! Today the Wall Street Journal reported on Professor Tom Stafford, of the University of …Read the Rest
A Successful Career Without Credentials
Science reports today on John “Jack” R. Horner, Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University and the curator of paleontology at the Museum …Read the Rest
More to Life – and Learning – Than AP
Stuart Schmill, dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shares his insights on the AP-ification of American education in …Read the Rest
CourseKit: The Social LMS
Big Think reports this week on CourseKit, the brainchild of three University of Pennsylvania students, Joe Cohen, Dan Getelman, and Jim …Read the Rest
Hope, Promise & Lessons Learned on September 11, 2011
Voices from TakePart on Vimeo. Beat terrorism by refusing to be terrorized: “…terrorism alone cannot do anything to the …Read the Rest
E-Textbook Rentals & Learning in the Cloud
TechCrunch announced today that Amazon.com is launching a Kindle Textbook Rental program that includes cloud note storage. According to TechCrunch: …Read the Rest
The New Mind of Humankind
The July 15 issue of the journal Science reports on a study led by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow that …Read the Rest
Letting Students Lead
In The Future of College: Forget Lectures and Let the Students Lead, Fast Company’s Design, looks at “Purpose Driven Learning” …Read the Rest
