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More Changes – Although This One Came Slow
Just the other day, Sony announced that they would be ending domestic (Japanese) sales of 3.5 inch “floppy” disks. The latest and most efficient versions of this medium, the High Density disk, would...
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New Page – Effective Presentations
At the risk of feeling something like evangelists, Bill and I are currently advocating that all the instructors, trainers, and professional developers we know take a hard look at how they use...
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College Not Necessary for Success in 21st Century?
So, interesting/controversial article from the New York Times today(Thanks Margy!): Plan B: Skip College Quotes from the article that caught my eye : Perhaps no more than half of those who began a...
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Measuring iCritical Thinking Skills
Today, almost like we’d planned it, Twitter brought us this article announcing a new assessment tool from Certiport and Educational Testing Service (ETS) for measuring students’ ” …ability to think...
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Project:What Tech Skills ARE Needed for Low Skill Jobs?
So I did some more thinking about the “Is college necessary…” idea, and I had the following questions: “How good are the jobs that don’t need college? What do they pay? How desireable are they?” “What...
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Project: Tech Skills Needed for Child Care Career Path
OK, so, following up on our project idea – What Tech Skills ARE Needed for Low Skill Jobs? , here is what I’ve found out about the Child Care career path so far. Bear in mind that this is *informal*...
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New Common Core Standards – Where’s the Tech?
On June 2nd, 2010, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released the Common Core State Standards for grades...
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Again – Increased Access Does NOT Equal Increased Skills
Back from vacation and catching up on e-mails, tweets, and blog posts – Whew! This Web 2.0 stuff is tiring! From my backlog of e-mail, here is more evidence that simply increasing access to...
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LAPCAE Materials
I’d like to thank everyone who came to my session, Emerging Technologies in the Adult Education Classroom. You were a fun group to talk to and I hope that everyone got something to take away from the...
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Engineering Design Enters the 4th Dimension
OK, this is really revolutionary! Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a polymer and a process which allows the production of an object fixed in one shape that can later be...
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