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Deepak Chopra: A Message to the Future Leaders of the World (Part 1) By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP From my commencement speech at Hartwick College Today as you celebrate this major milestone in your life and commence a new stage of your life journey, I ask you to reflect on the gift of life itself.
And life, in essence, is nothing but awareness. Furthermore human life, considered the pinnacle of biological evolution, is not just awareness, but self-awareness. Amongst creatures on this planet, we human beings are not only aware; we have the capacity to be aware that we are aware, to be conscious of our consciousness. Biological evolution has been summed up in the phrase of “survival of the fittest,” but with overpopulation and over-consumption of resources, the future belongs to “survival of the wisest”. Today’s age is frequently referred to as the Information Age. If ever humanity had the power of mass self-extinction on planet earth, it is today.
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Poor Technical Choices Make Open Content Less Open. Mozilla’s Open Badges Project: A New Way to Recognize Learning. Digital Tools The Boy Scout’s badges are something we’re all familiar with: accomplish a task, learn a craft, demonstrate a skill, and you’re awarded a badge.
It’s a symbol of your achievement, and one that’s recognized and recognizable by others. The Mozilla Foundation and Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), among others, are working to take the idea of merit-earned badges and build a framework around which they can be used as alternative but accepted forms of certification. The main premise behind this idea, the argument goes, is that the institutions and organizations traditionally responsible for accreditation no longer match the realities of what learning looks like today. For example, holding a bachelor’s degree in computer science is not necessarily an indication that you’re skilled in JavaScript, that you are an experienced project manager, that you’ve contributed to an open source project, or that you work well with virtual teams.
What skills should we assess? How Mozilla’s Open Badges May Work In the Real World. Mozilla After 18 months in the darkness of beta world, Mozilla’s Open Badges project stepped out into the light recently with the unveiling of Open Badges 1.0.
But will the concept of organizations bestowing their own virtual endorsements for the mastery of skills hold up to critical examination from a world that, even in an information economy, demands most of its skilled workers hold a framed degree?
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