domingo, 15 de mayo de 2011

The E-learning Daily Sábado, May. 14, 2011



schoolsEDU
by Loreal Lynch | May 12, 2011 The current one-size-fits-all U.S. education system is failing to prepare millions of young adults for career success. That's the conclusion of a recently-published s...
 schools.com
Educación

edReformer
by Katherine Vander ArkMay 13, 2011Google announced their new Chromebooks for Education, a new kind of computer. They will be running on the new operating system Chrome OS and be able to use the Ap...
 edreformer.com
Educación

josiefraser
In the past 24 hours, more than forty thousand people have signed up on Facebook to attend a flash mob barbecue this weekend in Higienopolis, a wealthy neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Sao Pa...
 readwriteweb.com

josiefraser
Posted by Ronnie Burt on Friday, May 6th 2011      This is the 22nd post in the “30 days to using the best of the web’s free tools for educators” series. Be sure to subscribe to the Teacher Challen...
 teacherchallen...

josiefraser
13 MAY, 2011 by Maria Popova Innovation that sticks, or how to turn nature’s aggravations into universal usefulness. This year, Velcro — one of the world’s most beloved multipurpose inventions — ce...
 brainpickings.org
Cultura y Espectáculos

EdEquality
4th and 5th graders at Achieve Academy heading home after school in Oakland, Calif, February 04, 2010. Michael Macor / The Chronicle / Corbis On Tuesday, when President Obama traveled to El Paso, T...
 time.com

edtechdigest
HIGHER EDTECH | By Julie Smith The college experience has moved from static, one-dimensional learning to dynamic, collaborative and real-time learning.  Though many factors contribute to this shift...
 edtechdigest.w...
Educación

hopkinsdavid
As a natural towhead, I’m a walking punchline for dumb-blond jokes.Fact is there’s no connection between my stupidity and the luscious locks atop my head. I’m dumb for a whole other set of truths, ...
 prdaily.com
Gente

edtechdigest
Wishbone was born in Elizabeth Schmidt’s 10th-grade classroom at Locke High School in South Central, Los Angeles. Beth was a new teacher with Teach for America attempting to find a way for her stud...
 edtechdigest.w...

thehrgoddess
Posted on May 13, 2011 by Get Your Leadership BIG On!Ah, ’tis Friday the 13th  and time for this week’s leadership favorites. Happy reading, and remember to use your head to manage and your heart t...
 getyourleaders...
Gente

ashleydburleson
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – 1 min ago WASHINGTON – Who's better at teaching difficult physics to a class of more than 250 college students: the highly...
 news.yahoo.com
Educación

thehrgoddess
Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first real jobs to seasoned leaders in the upper ranks of organizations, have moments — ...
 blogs.hbr.org

rjacquez
Leave it to Japan – the first country that Twitter offered language support to and tweet-obsessed from the beginning – to be the first to push out a Twitter phone. This summer, Japanese Twitter use...
 mediabistro.com
Tecnología

thehrgoddess
Sunday morning at church, every woman got a blank rectangle of paper. During the message, our pastor, Dean, told us he wanted us to write the answers to two questions on our papers. I grabbed a pen...
 weavinginfluen...
Gente

edReformer
by Bryan SetserMay 13, 2011Anyone who is ever worked a day in state government knows that state policy can be a tremendous barrier or lever for learning reform. The “Bureau-stocracy” loves policy c...
 edreformer.com
Educación

weknowmore
3:01 PM Friday May 13, 2011 by Joshua Gans  | Comments (View) This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.The title of this post surely seems somewhat strange. Surely any self-re...
 blogs.hbr.org
Negocios

ToddAHoffman
By Cindy KingPublished May 14, 2011 Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our ...
 socialmediaexa...
Tecnología

rjacquez
Netflix coming to Android (but slowly)By Tim Mullaney, Special for USA TODAYNetflix is finally coming to Android phones nine months after launching on the rival iPhone platform and more than a year...
 content.usatod...
Tecnología

weknowmore
9:06 AM Friday May 13, 2011  | Comments (View) There's an award-winning doctoral dissertation in marketing, hospitality or behavioral economics to be done on why the world's most luxurious hotels i...
 blogs.hbr.org
Gente

rjacquez
With Google I/O 2011 just two days behind us, we wanted to thank the nearly 1 million developers who joined us at Moscone Center, attended I/O Extended events and watched online via I/O Live from 1...
 googleblog.blo...
Tecnología