Category: Change
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Geek Competencies
Helen Haste, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education has identified five competencies that we should be teaching our students: Managing Ambiguity. “Managing ambiguity is that tension between rushing to the clear, the concrete, and managing this ambiguous fuzzy area in the middle. And managing ambiguity is something we have to teach. Because we have…
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Here’s an idea – mLearning in India
You don’t need to understand the language to get thepint – which makes this all the more powerful. Granted it is an ad, but the idea (no pun intended) is there.
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Good enough, Near enough, again
Back in April, I posted about a PCWorld article talking about how the future of computing might very well be “good enough” rather than working with “top of the line”. Today, I spotted an article, this time in Wired, talking about how the makers of the Flip cameras used the “good enough, near enough” model…
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Online is better than F2F, hybrid learning needs to pick up the pace
according to Philip R. Regier, the Dean of Arizona State University’s Online and Extended Campus program: “The technology will be used to create learning communities among students in new ways,” … “People are correct when they say online education will take things out the classroom. But they are wrong, I think, when they assume it…