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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com
As always, I tend to look at the recommended changes for higher ed as a means to shift what we think about K-12. Not always the best way to think, but this article brings up some salient points about collaboration and change within departments.
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Add Sticky NoteUnfortunately this mass-production university model has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization.
- I think the same can be said for high schools and K-12. We see ourselves often as solely a content specialist in one area, whereas I wonder what would happen if we looked at ourselves through the lens the author uses later in the article when he talks about how he would restructure universities. - on 2009-04-30
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Add Sticky Noteagile, adaptive and imaginative
- This word choice is fantastic. I love to see schools where these three words apply to the learning community--from the students to the faculty to the community. - on 2009-04-30
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These are crazy! Some great tools for students and teachers.
100 Awesome Ivy League Video Lectures | Online Universities.com
Another one of these "100" lists, but this one rocks for providing students with the ability to push further.
Answer service is new way to cheat : Lifestyle : Ventura County Star
"Now that we're aware ChaCha exists, I can assure you that we will begin discussion of a formal policy to prohibit cell phone use in classes," said Gerard O'Sullivan, vice president for academic affairs at Neumann College in Delaware County, Pa. He said most professors already prohibited cell phone use in class.
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- Oh, brother. Is this guy the little Dutch boy who plugged his finger in the dyke or what? - on 2008-09-20
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