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What Can Steve Jobs Still Teach Us? | Fast Company
Apple's Leader has died at the age of 56 , having recently stepped down as Apple's CEO. He wasn't trained as a designer or an engineer. But he was one of the greatest users of technology ever. That was his secret asset. Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbisn
I Heart Chaos — The year 2000 as envisioned in the year 1910
In 1910, French artist Villemard produced a series of illustrations depicting what life might be like in the year 2000. Yeah, he pretty much nailed it.
Every night at 9 p.m., Walmart employee James Boskell sits down to his dining room table with a laptop to work on his college degree — courtesy of his employer. The world's largest retailer is now offering its 1.4 million employees a college education. Through a partnership with American Public University, employees can take online courses toward a bachelor's or master's degree.
Among Benefits For Walmart Workers: A Degree : NPR
This Saturday, high-school students around the country will sit for hours of silent testing that will determine some portion of their future: That’s right, it’s SAT time. For both parents and kids, the preparation for taking the standardized test is stressful and expensive, often involving hours of studying and several hundreds of dollars spent on classes, workbooks and tutors. And many kids will take these tests more than once.
Grockit.com SAT Test-Prep Web Site Review | Katherine Boehret | The Mossberg Solution | AllThingsD
Is the best way to fix the American classroom to improve the furniture? - By Linda Perlstein - Slate Magazine
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Challenged cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records
Back to post / website . View/add comments for this article . Challenged by Stuart McMillen. December 2009.Some Harvard professors are taking very seriously their "intellectual property rights" and have claimed copyright to the ideas that they spread in their classrooms. What prompted this was a website in which students posted their notes to help other students. The professors have cracked down. It might have been enough to legislate against this behavior in particular. Instead, they wrapped their objection in the great fallacy of our age: the professor owns his ideas and they may not be spread without his permission. This action has opened up a can of worms, and now other universities have taken up the puzzling question: how do you at once enforce intellectual property and uphold the ideal of a university, which is, after all, about teaching and spreading ideas to others?
If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others? - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily
Ask someone for tips on proper study skills, and you’re likely going to get an answer that ranges from “study in a quiet, sealed room” to “drink a sip of water each time you need to remember a fact.” But from folksy suggestions to ideas based in actual science, study skills are just about how well you train your brain to absorb information. The New York Times reports that scientists have determined a few simple techniques that can enable a student to absorb more information. Many of these new findings contradict commonly-accepted study habits. One might think that focusing on a particular subject for intense, long stretches makes the most sense.
