Thanks for returning! I have a Facebook Fan page and Twitter account that you may be interested in too.It seems that education technology is really at an interesting stage in its development. What you have is a huge market of students around the world that are really under-served when it comes to technology in the [...]
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Have you ever wondered why so many students fail to graduate? In today’s unsteady economy it would seem that people would more than ever want to stick with getting a degree. The following research (sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation) has analyzed some of the reasons. I have to admit that I believed [...]
This case study is an example of how a teacher can make a virtual classroom a powerful tool for learning, collaborating and yes even fun. In this case study I’m going to show a small sub-section of what a teacher & students can do in an ETG virtual classroom using one assignment as an example. [...]
Learning new things everyday is one of the fun things about being involved with Enterthegroup.com. I had never heard of a cloud-computing academy until I met Conor (an ETG user). He has some interesting and ambitious goals that I think everyone involved in education would be interested to discover and add their thoughts. I’ll let [...]
There’s nothing wrong with wanting the best from life, whether it be a top paying job, a perfect GPA or a massively successful business. What happens when we expect too much from ourselves though? In other words, if we set the bar so high that we accept nothing but incredible success aren’t we setting ourselves [...]
I’ve been contacted a few times with questions and comments about how parents can and should be involved in their kid’s studies. Parents and teachers have asked; Can parents keep track of their student’s workload using ETG? The answer is a definite YES. The issue is that some students aren’t very organized and need additional [...]
Do you know what it takes to get an idea to stick? In part 1 of this series I discussed the first 3 of 6 critical elements that Chip and Dan Heath mentioned in their book Made to Stick. To recap, they state that viral and long lasting ideas have common elements. Irregardless of where, [...]
Mark Twain once said “I have never let school interfere with my education.” and this is the motto of UnCollege, a new movement to redefine what and how we learn. The movement is spearheaded by nineteen year old Dale Stephens and its goal is to create a learning program where students will be ‘self-learners’. In [...]
I discovered the University of the People a couple of months ago and right away its mission really intrigued me. The concept is both simple and revolutionary – to create a university which is tuition free. In today’s world of rising education costs and student debt escalating out of control, this seemed like an alternative [...]
A Vision of Students Today
Nov 29
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Einstein said ‘Never memorize what you can look up in books’, so why do we focus so much on what we learn as opposed to how we learn? I don’t believe that the objective of education should be the memorization of facts. Instead it should be focused on the acquisition of useful skills. In effect [...]
They say if you give a man a fish you’ve fed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish then you’ve fed him forever. So why don’t we apply this logic in the classroom? In other words why don’t we teach students (of all ages) how to start a business of [...]
Failure @ Harvard
Feb 9
In life we tend to study only successful people, companies, governments and so on. Even when we study the lives of these “successes” we tend to gloss over their mistakes, indiscretions and failures. Take for example, Abraham Lincoln who is considered one of America’s greatest presidents. He had a number of failures on his road [...]
When I was in school I never considered my group assignments as ‘projects’. Instead I looked at them as the same type of work I had done before, but now shared with other people. In fact I never really knew what project management was until after I graduated from business school. I realize now that [...]
Part1 of A Review of Technology and Education This article is part I of my multi-part investigation into the extent that technology is becoming a part of the educational process. As I am building a website which is designed for students to collaborate and manage their group projects online, I thought it important to investigate [...]
Have you ever worked on a group project which seemed doomed to failure? I think most of us have been there at least once. At the point where a project gets stalled it’s extremely important to get past whatever obstacle is impeding your project because your morale will suffer and your deadline will soon approach. [...]
What is ‘Leadership’ really?
Dec 20
I just read an article from Forbes.com which discusses the new Center for Leadership at Dartmouth’s business school. The idea is that leadership can be taught and that an important component of leadership is knowing yourself. If you don’t know yourself, how will you know your strengths and weaknesses? Furthermore, how will you know your [...]
Have you ever had that feeling where you have so many things to do that you don’t know where to begin? Have you felt anxiety that your project won’t get done on time? I think most of us can relate to that. Sometimes when we are working on a project we compare where we are [...]
This is an interesting read in the NYT. I think it is inevitable that technology and education will become more and more intertwined. This is just another confirmation that we don’t need to sit in classrooms to learn and collaborate with people and professors. Let’s hope for my selfish sake that this applies to group [...]
