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Liberating Education: How does a professor connect with 100,000 students?
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Thursday, May 30, 2013. How does a professor connect with 100,000 students? The Wall Street Journal's article " Web Courses Woo Professors. Reports on the game-changing developments going on in higher education, especially as a result of MOOC's: Massive Open Online Courses. But what about the MOOC's themselves, as courses? Students want and need more than a knowledge transfe...
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Liberating Education: December 2012
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Sunday, December 23, 2012. Educate for Problem-Solving, Not Factories. Good article in Forbes. About what education should be like, with interesting statistics from 1948 about homework and lots of information about very successful contemporary programs. Frankly, just about everything mentioned are things we do in Montessori schools. Been doing this 105 years now! Ken Robinso...
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Liberating Education: May 2012
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Sunday, May 27, 2012. Remembering on Memorial Day. John A. "Black Jack" Logan. Civil War general and founder of Memorial Day. From Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:. Picture taken by Joe Ravi in Chicago's Grant Park. License CC-BY-SA 3.0. Links to this post. John A. Logan. Thursday, May 24, 2012. What's wrong with distance learning? Thoughts from an expert teacher. Provi...
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Liberating Education: January 2013
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Students Don't Need College. Not really a surprise, if you pay attention to who's employed at Starbucks, Whole Foods, Barnes and Noble, Trader Joe's, and myriad small businesses. But the Center for College Affordability and Productivity is now putting a number to how many people don't need college for their jobs. Links to this post. An old principl...
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Liberating Education: Bureaucracy Trumps Brilliance
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Tuesday, June 4, 2013. A Wyoming teen, Conrad Farnsworth, built a working fusion reactor. In his garage for science fair competitions. He was disqualified - for entering too many competitions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To Liberating Education. All your kids are belong to us. Dedicated teachers commentary on current policies. View my complete profile.
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Liberating Education: February 2013
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Friday, February 8, 2013. The Practicality of the Liberal Arts. Excellent, well-articulated statement about the immense value of the liberal arts from my friend and co-instructor, Andrew Humphries:. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The Con of the Common Core Standards. I've thought for years that the No Child Left Behind program was a Soviet-style, top-down sys...
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Liberating Education: "All your kids are belong to us"
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Thursday, June 6, 2013. All your kids are belong to us". If you doubt my writings about the progressive attempts to instill collectivism in children through education, read t his thoughtful piece. And if you wonder what the goofy title of this post refers to, go here. June 6, 2013 at 9:42 AM. June 7, 2013 at 4:26 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Reason, Individual...
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Liberating Education: June 2013
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Thursday, June 6, 2013. All your kids are belong to us". If you doubt my writings about the progressive attempts to instill collectivism in children through education, read t his thoughtful piece. And if you wonder what the goofy title of this post refers to, go here. Links to this post. Tuesday, June 4, 2013. A Wyoming teen, Conrad Farnsworth, built a working fusion reactor.
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Liberating Education: Bubbles Bursting All Over
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Monday, May 6, 2013. Bubbles Bursting All Over. The Wall Street Journal. That 45% of students at private colleges are now getting significant financial aid, as enrollments have dropped 10-20%. And here's a useful graphic. About how schools compare in terms of return on investment. How did you find that graph? May 6, 2013 at 2:38 PM. May 6, 2013 at 9:08 PM. Help support this ...
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Liberating Education: March 2013
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Exploring all aspects of education as it relates to becoming a free, independent, successful person. The Great Connections Seminar. Friday, March 15, 2013. Binge Learning" = "Follow the child". Binge Learning Is Online Learning's Killer App". Has a wonderful analysis of the benefits of interest-led learning. Just exactly what we do in authentic Montessori programs. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe To Liberating Education. Binge Learning = Follow the child. View my complete profile.
