2011 Year of Edupunk « Colin Maxwell's Blog As education budget cuts bite hard and resources become ever scarcer, educators will increasingly adopt a DIY approach to ensure that quality learning continues. Educators that don’t embrace the change will see their courses ever harder to deliver, leading to decay and eventual cutbacks. Courtesy of bionic teaching, Creative Commons License Edupunks have been making, sharing and collaborating already, and their practices will have to become mainstream for quality further & higher education to continue as before. Cuts will lead to less investment in ICT, staff and support, and educators will embrace the cloud, moving their course content into the open network and enabling greater sharing between institutions and across boundaries that were previously seen as no-go areas. Like this: Like Loading...
DIY U Why College Is Overrated | Education on GOOD We need to debunk the myth that a college degree leads to success. The pinnacle of education should revolve around learning and gaining knowledge. A couple of months ago, I wrote an essay titled “College, Inc.,” which shed a light on the inevitable student loan crisis, and the collective action we can do to prevent it from happening. As a follow-up, I’ll share with you my view about why higher education is overrated. Ben Casnocha recently wrote an article about what 17 million Americans got from a college degree. For hundreds of thousands of Americans, spending four years and untold amounts of money (and debt?) This is the fundamental problem with documentaries like Waiting for Superman and organizations like Teach for America. The Project on Student Debt makes a compelling case: “College seniors who graduated in 2009 carried an average of $24,000 in student loan debt. Peter Thiel’s idea is a great one but I think there’s an even easier, scalable solution.
bavatuesdays About Anya Kamenetz, author of 'The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential' Biography Anya Kamenetz is a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine, where she writes the column Life in Beta, and the author of two books, Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), which dealt with generational economics and politics including student loan policy, and DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, (Chelsea Green, 2010) which investigated the roots of the cost, access, and quality crises in higher education as well as innovations in technology and social media to address these crises. She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009 and 2010 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing by the Village Voice in 2005. She travels and speaks at campuses across the country, and often gives comments on NPR, CNN and other news networks. Where to find Anya Kamenetz online Books The Edupunks' Guide to a DIY Credential
Lisa Nielsen: The College Myth: Why College isn't Worth the Cost for Many Careers Today If you are a kid or have a kid in school today, you know that preparing kids for college is just a way of life. Forget the fact that some people have discovered it is a "Race to Nowhere" that leaves many children riddled with stress, anxiety, headaches, stomach pains, and in for some even suicide attempts. Nevermind the dirty secret that a bachelor's degree is beyond the reach of many students. Or that "The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. While it is becoming more evident to disillusioned college grads who are victims of an unfolding education hoax on the middle class that's just as insidious, and nearly as sweeping, as the housing debacle, there is little thought given to the fact that we place kids in schools with a promise that if they do well in school and then in college, they'll be rewarded with a life time of success and opportunity not otherwise available to them. The goal of school should not be college readiness.
home College Education, Good Jobs: Why Degrees Are Overrated Even in these days of partisan rancor, there is a bipartisan consensus on the high value of postsecondary education. That more people should go to college is usually taken as a given. In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama echoed the words of countless high school guidance counselors around the country: "In this economy, a high school diploma no longer guarantees a good job." Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, who gave the Republican response, concurred: "All Americans agree that a young person needs a world-class education to compete in the global economy." The statistics seem to bear him out. We may be close to maxing out on the first strategy. The benefits of putting more people in college are also oversold. We could probably increase the number of high school seniors who are ready to go to college — and likely to make it to graduation — if we made the K-12 system more academically rigorous. To talk about college this way may sound élitist.
on edupunk | D'Arcy Norman dot net Jim’s been talking about edupunk a fair bit lately (starting with the killer post The Glass Bees, then Permapunk and finally tying in the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem wikipedia project), and Jen wrote up a piece that dovetails nicely into the concept. There’s something about the edupunk concept that is resonating deeply in me. It’s a movement away from what has become of the mainstream edtech community - a collection of commercial products produced by large companies. Edupunk is the opposite of that. It’s DIY. It’s hardcore. It’s about individuals being able to craft their own tools, to plan their own agendas, and to determine their own destinies. And it’s not new. But, the key to edupunk is that it is not about technology. It’s about a culture, a way of thinking, a philosophy. I’m not about to suggest that technology isn’t important or relevant to edupunk - of course it is. One of the coolest classrooms I’ve ever been in is the Engineering Design Lab at the University of Calgary.
Thon: - Du trenger ikke utdanning for å lykkes - Næringsliv - Ingen av oss har lang utdanning. Kan vi, så kan også dagens norske ungdom, sier Thon. Slik ønsker han å formidle sin fremste livsvisdom, når han nå ser tilbake på sitt 90 år gamle liv. 19. juni inviterer han til forsiktig feiring av sin 90-årsdag 29. juni. Han vipper 90, minst like aktiv som før og har et herlig livsmotto i overgangen fra 80 til 90 år: - Når man blir 90, må man sette opp farten. Masse å gjøre Han sitter og smiler på kontoret i åttende etasje i Olav Thon-Gruppens kontorer noen hundre meter nordvest for Oslo S. Da vi spurte om å få et intervju, fikk vi først nei, men han lot seg overtale. Men det måtte skje samme dag, torsdag, «fordi hele neste uke er helt opptatt. - Du er ikke helt som andre 90-åringer? - Jeg tenkte jeg skulle roe litt ned etter hvert. Norges rikeste - Sørlandssenteret dukket opp. - Så driver jeg med hoteller da. - Hvordan ser hverdagen ut? - Jeg står opp sånn i sekstiden for å være på jobb før alle andre køer seg innover. - Hvordan er det å være så rik?
The Whiteboard Blog Ledertalent: - 90 prosent handler om personlighet - Ledertalentene Om knappe tre uker skal tusenvis av håpefulle ta fatt i studiene som skal føre dem arbeidsdyktige ut i samfunnet. - Har aldri søkt jobb Tidligere Ledertalent i 2012, Bård Kvamme (35), fant raskt ut at arbeidslivet var utålmodig med å gi han ansvar. Han hadde mange års erfaring som leder innen klesimport og salg, før han ble country manager i Skandinavias største Apple-forhandler, Humac. Ett år ut i BI-studiene la den da 20 år gamle Kvamme bedriftsøkonomien på hyllen, til fordel for butikksjef-jobb i Jack and Jones. LES OGSÅ: Her er de 20 tøffeste intervjuspørsmålene - Jeg har aldri søkt jobber, det er noe jeg har blitt tilbudt fordi interessen i å påta meg mer ansvar har vært tilstede. Til tross for at han aldri vendte tilbake til BI, mener han at arbeidslivet ga han den berømte tyngden han trengte for å lede en bedrift. For femte gang kårer E24 i år Norges fremste ledertalenter høsten 2013. Kåringen er tipsbasert Send en e-post til: ledertalentene@e24.no Unorsk ledelseskultur - Jobbe hardere