Will Dropouts Save America? Michael Ellsberg is the author of “The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late.” I TYPED these words on a computer designed by Apple, co-founded by the college dropout Steve Jobs. The program I used to write it was created by Microsoft, started by the college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen. And as soon as it is published, I will share it with my friends via Twitter, co-founded by the college dropouts Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and Facebook — invented, among others, by the college dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, and nurtured by the degreeless Sean Parker. American academia is good at producing writers, literary critics and historians. In a recent speech promoting a jobs bill, President Obama told Congress, “Everyone here knows that small businesses are where most new jobs begin.” Close, but not quite. No business in America — and therefore no job creation — happens without someone buying something.
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Cern residency programme unites artists and physicists Cern has launched a programme that aims to bring together artists and physicists at its laboratory near Geneva. Collide@Cern -- which falls into a wider Cern policy for engaging with the arts called Great Arts for Great Science -- is a three-month residency programme for artists to be mentored by leading scientists, supported by a stipend of €10,000. The head of Cern's arts programme, Ariane Koek, said: "The arts touch the parts that science alone cannot reach and vice versa. Collide@Cern gives Cern, artists and scientists the opportunity to engage in creative collisions that can occur when these two areas of human creativity and ingenuity come together." The first part of the scheme -- Prix Ars Electronica -- was launched in August at digital arts festival Ars Electronica. They are looking for digital artists who show a willingness to engage with the ideas of particle physics or with Cern as a place of scientific collaboration. You can still apply for the residencies until 31 October.
HTML Tutorial The Macroscope: Chap. 6 This is chapter 6 of the "The Macroscope" by Joël de Rosnay Our education remains hopelessly analytical, centered on a few disciplines, like a puzzle whose pieces overlap rather than fit together. It is an education that prepares us neither for the global approach to complex problems nor for the interplay between them. Nevertheless the present generation of eighteen- to twenty-five-year-olds itself poses problems globally. Yet this emergent thought, this new manner of seeing and judging the world, is not the monopoly of one generation alone. The new vision of the world is not the effect of a single cause but the result of the convergence, integration, and interdependence of a large number of factors. Some observers emphasize the catalytic effect of communications. It is impossible to dissociate these elements from one another. In this context we are led again to the eternal questions of our origin the meaning of life, the consequences of our actions, our destiny. Criticism of Authority
The Best Icon Sets for Portfolio Sites - Web Design Blog – Desig Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Icons are an important part of web design. While there are a lot of quality free icon sets out there, finding the right ones for your portfolio site can be a challenge. In this post we’ll feature the best sets that include icons suitable for portfolio sites. As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license details before using. Portfolio Icons This is Art Web Design Icons Project Icon Set Briefcase Icon Icons for Designers Cute Blogging Icon Set Practika Addictive Flavour Social Media Icons: Many designers include links to their social networking profiles on their portfolio site. Social Media Icons MediaLoot Social Media Icons Social Moleskin Icons Vector Social Media Icons Pixel Perfect Social Media Icons For more on icons please see: About Steven Snell Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design.
Éducation nouvelle L'éducation nouvelle est un courant pédagogique qui défend le principe d'une participation active des individus à leur propre formation. Elle déclare que l'apprentissage, avant d'être une accumulation de connaissances, doit être un facteur de progrès global de la personne. Pour cela, il faut partir de ses centres d'intérêt et s'efforcer de susciter l'esprit d'exploration et de coopération : c'est le principe des méthodes actives. Principes[modifier | modifier le code] L'éducation nouvelle s'appuie sur les principes de la pédagogie active et la confiance dans les ressources propres à chacun. Cependant, l'éducation nouvelle ne se limite pas à un enseignement par des méthodes actives venant se substituer à l'enseignement magistral. L'apprentissage de la vie sociale est essentiel : depuis le « self-government » de Summerhill aux conseils coopératifs de la pédagogie institutionnelle, le respect de l'enfant implique qu'il soit partie prenante des règlements qui régissent sa vie.
Roundup of Best GIMP Tips & Tutorial GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. GIMP is expandable and extensible. Gimp Galaxy By Abduzeedo Although I really like the Adobe’s main product, I have seen a lot of articles about GIMP, that stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, and people creating amazing effects using this tool. Leopard’s Aurora Borealis wallpaper By Abduzeedo what I want to show on this tutorial is how to create that Aurora Borealis effect using the new GIMP. Gold Text Effect By Gimpology Learn how to create a beautiful gold text effect in the GIMP. Authentic Vintage Effect By Gimpology A beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel. Gimp Sin City Tutorial By Ajit’s Blog This tutorial has been converted from the original Photoshop tutorial into Gimp. Worn Vintage Popart Design by SGLiders12 Blog A colored swirl of light By GimpUsers
Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to each other across the aisles. Class begins with a big "shhhh" from the instructor. This is an introductory chemistry class at a state university. For the next hour and 15 minutes, the instructor will lecture and the students will take notes. By the end of class, the three large blackboards at the front of the room will be covered with equations and formulas. Students in this class say the instructor is one of the best lecturers in the department. Student Marly Dainton says she doesn't think she'll remember much from this class. "I'm going to put it to short-term memory," she says. One of the Oldest Teaching Methods It's a tradition going back thousands of years. Redish is trying to change the way college students are taught. Redish has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1970.
Royalty Free Icons &Clipart Stock Images ~ Icons Etc. The Problem with Lecturing Back in the late 1970s a colleague came to David Hestenes with a problem. The two of them were physics professors at Arizona State University. Hestenes was teaching mostly graduate students, but his colleague was teaching introductory physics, and the students in his classes were not doing well. Semester after semester, the class average on his exams never got above about 40 percent. "And I noted that the reason for that was that his examination questions were mostly qualitative, requiring understanding of the concepts," says Hestenes. Most professors didn't test for this kind of understanding; students just had to solve problems to pass the exams. This observation prompted a series of conversations between Hestenes and his colleague about the difference between being able to solve problems and really understanding the concepts behind those problems. Testing Understanding They developed a multiple-choice test, now known as the Force Concept Inventory, or FCI. Taking It to Heart