Parents ‘n Schools

This from a recent Fast Company e-letter (have you subscribed yet?… go to their website), talking about TED and the advanced educational platform that it is… and if you were building a school, might it not be built like TED?
GLO
gordotto@parentsnschools.com
Inside the World’s MOST EXCLUSIVE (and Most Accessible) CLUB with SPECIAL GUESTS including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard […]

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In my grandfather’s homesteading day, graduation from high school was not common. Nor was it necessary to proceed well in life. In my father’s day, graduation from high school grew increasingly common, but college was not. Nor was it necessary to proceed well in life. In my day, going to college became increasingly common (I […]

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One of the mysteries of government schooling to me is how it can be that when so many fail to graduate in a timely fashion (one out of every three in Alberta… and that’s one of the higher rates in North America), that so few schoolers lose their jobs because of it (one out of […]

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From Whitney Tilson’s blog recently, a piece that educates on the “race” in the world of academia to combat cheating via technology with proctoring via technology. Children can be led to cheat in school in the same fashion as they are led to steal copyrighted material. Because it is easy, and others get away with […]

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Here in week one of the Edfutures free course described in the last post, we are invited to:
“… post an introduction detailing why you are
interested in this course and why it is (or is it?) important that we study,
through rigorous methods, futures in education?
Through out this week, we will build a case why it is […]

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Allow me to interrupt this string of posts on engagement in education to, perhaps, engage you in education.
Specifically, the future of education.
The good folks at Athabasca University (a distance learning academy centred in Athabasca, Alberta but, virtually, everywhere) are offering the following decentralized course free to all who may wish to sign up.
Promises to be […]

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And pick up the new Fast Company (April 2010) issue and its feature story, “A is for App”.
It echoes many of the themes here at good ol’ PnS regarding the rapidly advancing quality and utility of technology solutions to schooling, and the challenges and opportunities awaiting such advances.
Here are some samples:
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Julissa’s teacher, the delightfully named […]

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IBM has a new commercial out that I like because it is easy for me to imagine the message (about analysis of info to help babies in neonatal care) translated to schooling and rapid, real-time analysis of info to help “older babies” in their schooling… to help speed up understanding by schoolers of those being […]

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Fast Company magazine online recently highlighted a new philanthropreneurial venture aimed at providing “mezzanine financing” for start-up schooling ventures that government schooling in its big “blobness” otherwise fails to serve.
The interview… editted below… rings with the sounds of similar Parents ‘n Schools sensibilities.

What would happen if you took the principles of a startup incubator… and […]

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Macleans magazine in its February 22, 2010 issue surveyed Canadian university students on a variety of elements of their post-secondary schooling experience (academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, collaborative learning, enriching experience, supportive environment, student satisfaction). Basic thing I took away… smaller universities are better for all of these things. Bigger/biggest universities were well down the list […]

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