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OPINION: With college enrollment tumbling, new strategies are urgently needed

The Hechinger Report

The result: fewer Americans will have the skills needed to strengthen our democracy, advance our knowledge-based economy and solve the challenges of our time — from climate change to life-threatening diseases to racial inequities. What lessons can educators learn from these examples? Some are already doing so.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. The rest is history. This was not my intent or even a goal. You might be wondering what the actual point of this post was.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

Edsurge

People love to try guess what Apple is up to—that’s true for the company’s education strategy as well. So when Apple’s longtime vice-president of education, John Couch, published a book this year with his thoughts on the future of education and accounts of his work at Apple, it opened a rare window into the company’s views on education.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. This can further be linked to depth of knowledge being greater as it is internalized (Yaklief, 2010), as exhibit 2 illustrates. Writing for a living: Literacy and the knowledge economy. Buchanan, R.

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Knowledge Genres

Connecting 2 the World

However, access to social and knowledge networks can create social spaces that allow for the creation of knowledge for distributed groups or individual members in the future. This is knowledge that can be articulated, represented in various forms (such as visuals, documents, presentations, interviews), and stored for future use.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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