15 Awesome Quotes on Collaboration
August 23, 2012 www.ideachampions.com 1. "It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin...
View ArticleTeen Sex Risk Rises with Smartphone Use
By Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer LiveScience.com – Tue, Oct 30, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO — Teens who own a smartphone may be at increased risk for engaging in risky sex behavior, a new...
View ArticleFour Steps to Measuring What Matters
by Michael J. Mauboussin 8:00 AM October 9, 2012 http://blogs.hbr.org When it comes to assessing performance, business executives can be a lot like old-time baseball scouts. They've been around so...
View ArticleEverything That Will Go Extinct In The Next 40 Years [Infographic]
Matthew Boesler | Aug. 2, 2012, 11:46 AM www.businessinsider.com Futurist website nowandnext.com put together this awesome infographic predicting all of the technologies, behaviors, and ideas that...
View ArticleMcGraw-Hill Exec: Tech Will Make Us Rethink Age-Grouping in Schools
Sep 27, 2012 - 1:34PM PT by Ki Mae Heussner http://gigaom.comAs digital learning platforms continue to personalize education, McGraw-Hill SVP Jeff Livingston believes schools, particularly at the high...
View ArticleVisions On Tomorrow: Part 1—The Challenge of Change
Let's talk about change. Whether we’re talking about change in our children, change in our lives, change in our businesses, change in our institutions, or change in our world, because change is so...
View ArticleVisions on Tomorrow: Part 2—Education's Response to These Changes
School has become a train. It’s a train that has been expected to go faster and faster, and do more and more, with less and less. We’ve continued to try and improve education incrementally by adding a...
View Article30 Incredibly Useful Apps for Video Pros and Novices
Josiah Oakley on February 1st 2012 http://mac.appstorm.net The Mac has long been the homestead for effective and easy video editing, graphic design, and video compressing for many professionals and...
View ArticleVisions on Tomorrow: Part 3—The Exponential Revolution
What is the Exponential Revolution? To understand the Exponential Revolution, you must first understand the power of doubling. To illustrate what doubling technological power looks like, let’s use an...
View ArticleWhy Learning Should Be Messy
October 18, 2012 | 9:49 AM | By MindShiftThe following is an excerpt of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School, by 17-year-old Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School in...
View ArticleThe Rise of E-Reading—An infographic
September 19, 2012 | 9:52 pm By Dan Eldridge www.teleread.com We talk quite often here at TeleRead about how quickly e-reader ownership is growing—and as a result, how strongly the print publishing...
View ArticleFinally—You Can Know Everything Your Kid is Doing in a Car All of the Time
We can track just about anyone doing just about anything these days. Tracking your kid in a car is actually pretty easy. And wouldn't you want to do that, especially if your kid were driving your car?...
View ArticleContributing to The Connected Learning Manifesto
AUG 9, 2012 by Justin Marquis Ph.D. www.onlineuniversities.com Much of the writing on Education Unbound is focused on evaluating existing programs or innovations to explain how best to use them or to...
View Article25 Ways to Boost Community Engagement on Your Website
Posted on October 15, 2012 by Sujan Patel www.searchenginejournal.com As a website owner, you’ve probably heard over and over again how important it is to build a community on your website. And while...
View ArticleHow Does Wi-Fi Work?
October 10, 2012 by Dani Fankhauser http://mashable.com To mankind, Wi-Fi represents many things: Freedom of speech, access to information and the ability to keep in touch with both family members and...
View ArticleTen Ways to Get People to Change
by Morten T. Hansen 8:00 AM September 21, 2012 http://blogs.hbr.org How do you get leaders, employees, customers — and even yourself — to change behaviors? Executives can change strategy, products and...
View ArticleDoing Some Strategic Planning? Don't Create Reports, Create Movies
No one likes reports When groups engage in the strategic planning process, they produce reports. Reports. Eww. No one likes reports. I'm not saying reports aren't useful. Every year, I read too many to...
View Article8 Tips To Remember What You Read
Despite television, cell phones, and Web “twitter,” traditional reading is still an important skill. Whether it is school textbooks, tech manuals at work, or regular books, people still...
View Article12 People Poised to Change Education Forever
SEP 26, 2012 by Staff Writers www.onlineuniversities.com If the crisis in higher education and the recent teacher strikes in Chicago are any indication, this is a tumultuous time for education, as...
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