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In this TED Talk, Sir Ken Robinson discusses how the freedom to fail is crucial toward producing innovative thought, and how modern educational systems are stymieing the freedom to fail, and hence be innovative.
This article, from the Economist, high-lights the idea that lower numbers of new workers are keeping the economy flat.
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Ryan Howell PhD cites new evidence that when materialistic people spend on experiences, which normally increases happiness, do not get the same effect as their non-materialist counterparts. (From Psychology Today)
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The benefits and detriments of social media, and how to use it to help online learning.
Social media has had a profound effect on how we communicate with one another. The intense connectivity brought about by this new modality of communication has had and will continue to have a significant influence on society in many different aspects. Politicians can now view how certain issues our trending and respond base on the emerging data. Businesses can use social media to "crowd source" innovation and develop marketing schemes to meet consumer demands. Being as social media has…
Perhaps we are looking at things wrong... Maybe managing energy not time is the key to success. That's what Tony Schwartz argues in his article "Manage your energy, not your time."
I just got done reading the book "The Power of Full Engagement" in which authors Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy posit that we need to manage our energy not our time. Similarly in his article for HBR Schwartz notes that it is important to develop rituals that allow our brains and bodies to recover by working in alternating phases of high focus and then rest.
Some of the positives and negatives of this method - With an Infograph
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There has been a substantive amount of research and scholarly articles written about the so-called flipped classroom. Although many practitioners and scholars have posited the advantages of flipping the classroom, others have lamented the loss of the more traditional classroom paradigm. The benefit of the flipped classroom is that it allows for student-to-student learning, lessening the amount of work for the instructor and encouraging student engagement. Conversely, the…
Carolyn Segal at Inside Higher Ed argues that Thomas Freidman is wrong that MOOcs are the future of Higher Education
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In this blog post by Bruce Nussbaum at HBR, creativity is examined in terms of how to systematically increase its scalability as well as nurture it in organizations.
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education: New service to use virtual assistant to organize email
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