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Online learning has been hailed as a faster, cheaper way to provide education -- but it doesn't do half of what administrators think it will. 
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American scientist and author Jared Diamond was recently in Australia promoting his 5th book The World Until Yesterday: What can we learn from traditional societies? Via Greg Downey
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March 4, 2013 4:20 AM
If you're not over Jared Diamond's account of the differences between Us and Them, and his shtick about fearing the shower, there's more from an interview he did with sociologist Peter Christoff. For example, he has no time for criticisms that he's homogenizing indigenous groups:
'The traditional societies that we see today are not frozen models of the past, on the one hand. On the other hand, they’re not irrelevant to the past because they are still small-scale societies. And when you’ve got 200 people, and whether the 200 people are from today or whether the 200 people are from 30,000 years ago, there are some things that you have to have with 200 people. So in short, I think my book is faithful to the complexities of the problem.' In other words, I acknowledge what my critics say, but then dismiss it and suggest it's irrelevant because I thought of it.
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Wikimedia/The Atlantic In a speech delivered at the 1894 dedication of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, which was founded to provide technical education for African Americans, Frederick Douglass argued that learning and liberty...
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With many parts of the world moving away from direct learning towards discovery learning, research suggests this may not be the right decision. Via Cultural Infusion
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Across America, public-education systems struggle with a lack of racial and economic diversity. How should that factor into families' choices when deciding where to send their children? Via Cultural Infusion
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"Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell"—London, 1805. (Wikimedia) “In its everyday operation,” sociologist James Loewen wrote, “segregation consists of a pervasive system of etiquette.”
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Demographics vs psychographics - why both are critical aspects of consumer research that marketers use to better understand the the culture of their ideal
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What is Education 4.0? Definition of Education 4.0: Innovation-producing education.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=EDUcation+4.0
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March 22, 2015 12:19 PM
What is Education 4.0? Definition of Education 4.0: Innovation-producing education. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=EDUcation+4.0
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Funding inequities between poor and rich school districts across state has reached record levels under Cuomo, report says.
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The second major shift emerges with the uptake of the social networking sites and participatory technologies. Now, we no longer talk about a single literacy but multiple literacies. Literacies take many forms and encompass a varied body of social skills and cultural competencies. In their popular white paper "Confronting The Challenges of Participatory Cultures" Jenkins et al talked at length about the development of these new literacies and how they come to shape the new learning forms that take place in the virtual space. According to Jenkins et al, these new literacies involve several social skills that are developed through collaboration and networking.
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"Success in These Schools? Visual Counternarratives of Young Men of Color" by Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.
The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence. Similarly, across all schooling contexts, most of what has been written about young men of color continually reinforces deficit narratives about their educational possibility. Taken together, images of Black and Latino male students in inner-city schools often manufacture dark, hopeless visualizations of imperiled youth and educational environments. Using photographic data from a study of 325 college-bound juniors and seniors attending 40 public New York City high schools, this article counterbalances one-sided mischaracterizations of young men of color and the urban schools that educate them. Specifically, visual sociology and critical race methodologies are used to construct anti- deficit counternarratives about boys of color and urban education. Via diane gusa, Jocelyn Stoller
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A new study finds that Gen Y is more focused on cognitive diversity, as opposed to demographic diversity. Here's why that perspective could be good for your business, too.
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For decades anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has incited uproar with his claims of genetically-rooted violence among Venezuela's Ya̧nomamö Indians. Via Greg Downey
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March 3, 2013 3:35 PM
Barbara King's excellent discussion of the whole Chagnon affair.
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When the economy heads south, the first targets are foreigners, who are blamed for job losses, crime and an assortment of other societal challenges that locals can rattle off.
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Democracy, opportunity, and shared responsibility are core, if sometimes contested, and not yet realized, aspirational American values. We need a society in which there is not just more equal opportunity, but more lived equity.... Via Cultural Infusion
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Check out these questions to guide you in reflecting on how much the learning environment you have designed promotes student voice and choice. Via Cultural Infusion
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Five years ago, I jokingly said that adjuncts are the face of the new poor, but now the joke is a reality in many cases. While adjunct professors are the backbone of many colleges and universities, they are severely underpaid, under-insured, under-respected, and exploited. They earn a pittance of what full-time instructors or tenure-track professors make, but are expected to perform in the classroom with the same amount of vigor and accountability. I argue that adjuncts are held to standards that are more rigid than full time professors are in some regards. In turn, it places adjuncts in powe
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Launching a new content curation on "Institutional Discrimination"
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Refer to Banks, Ch 9 regarding potential conflicts between modernity vs primordialism [Banks, J. A. (2007) Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society. Second Edition. New York: Teachers College Press]
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Creating a digital culture in any organisation is less about technology (much of that is shared, and the best is intuitive to use), but it is about culture. That culture is about a willingness to experiment, to take responsibility for new approaches, to support people as they learn new skills, but to be firm about where the boundaries are. Via John Evans
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Most creative people have two things in common: They are willing to consider alternatives to the way things are currently done, and they see objects, people, and situations from multiple perspectives.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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March 11, 2015 9:06 AM
Most creative people have two things in common: They are willing to consider alternatives to the way things are currently done, and they see objects, people, and situations from multiple perspectives. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity 
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March 11, 2015 10:14 AM
Todos podemos creaer un mundo de arcoiris, con bellos colores y diferentes experiencias. La imaginacion muchas veces es antes que la accion.
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An Antioch University Seattle class has spent the last quarter analyzing what's causing the city's homeless problem.
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