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What do Halloween, population growth, and other global issues have in common?
Halloween, and a snow day already—yes, two months before winter officially starts. About 2,000,000 east-coast customers have no electricity; countless trees broke because they hadn’t lost their leaves yet. It’s Monday, and trick-or-treating has been moved to Saturday in many … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Asia, developing countries, education, foreign language, global economy, global issues, jobs, living abroad, population growth, poverty
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Preparing students for the digital AND GLOBAL world
Leadership Day is organized by Scott McLeod: Dangerously Irrelevant (blog on Big Think). Summary of this post: Digital, linguistic, and cross-cultural skills are required for jobs in the global economy; what jobs are actually like in global business, and suggestions for schools. … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, culture, education, foreign language, fungibility, global economy, job prep, jobs, learning, life skills, living abroad, purpose, teaching, technology, user-centered design
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It’s Groundhog Day: recognizing cultural differences
Today is Groundhog Day. Have you seen the movie “Groundhog Day,” starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell? The French title is “Un jour sans fin” — ” A Never-ending Day.” Here in New England, we seem to be living through The … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural differences, culture, education, foreign language, fungibility, global economy, job prep, jobs, language, non-fungible work
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Hey, why did “they” do THAT to education?
I’m a parent, a teacher, and business person. I’m not blaming anyone for the problems of education, but with budget cuts, state-mandated testing, technology, and globalization, education will soon change dramatically. If you care about that, let’s discuss how we … Continue reading
Want to join the 21st-century coffeehouse for optimizing education?
“Chance favors the connected mind.” —Steven Johnson This blog is about the upcoming convergence of technology and globalization with education. The blog’s purposes are: To inform, provide resources, answer questions. To let people from different constituencies (teachers, students, parents, educational technology … Continue reading
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Tagged connected mind, education, education reform, education transformation, global economy, globalization, hunch, jobs, learner-centered design, learning, lifelong learning, opinion, optimization, optimizing education, schooling, student-centered design, teaching, technology, user-centered design, voice
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