Education for the 21st Century
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A Review of “Detachment” (2011) by Raymond Shirley
The word “detachment,” when applied to persons, can have two separate meanings.
The Ideal Professor vs. The Typical Professor
It’s a new year and a new semester, with new courses and different students—along with perhaps a few favorite courses and students you get to spend time with all over again, and maybe a couple of each you won’t miss at all. In other words, it’s a new beginning.
Are Teachers Overpaid? A Response to Critics
It is a view as ubiquitous as it is simplistic: To improve public education, pay teachers more—a lot more. Union officials, education reformers, scholars, laypeople, and politicians of all stripes endorse this principle in one form or another.
New 123D Beta 8 with New Sketching Features
Autodesk 123D is the free 3D modeler for everyone. It brings a powerful 3D solid modeling tool with accuracy to satisfy the tinkerers, DIYers, and Makers
National Park Service Expanding Reach Into STEM
Dense fog is slow to abate on this recent morning, as more than 200 6th graders scatter into small groups on the site of an old military camp in California’s Marin Headlands outside San Francisco.
School is generally considered the place where young people prepare for their future lives. Many believe that it is society’s responsibility to imbue students with the tools necessary to succeed in life, regardless of what kind of lives they choose.
Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills
Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills
Performance Improvement Project: Globalizing ABC University
Today’s higher education students are active participants in a growing globalized society. For example, students now connect with each other and with family and friends through internet social networking, and in their local communities to a multicultural variety of international values. This is especially true in metropolitan areas such as South Florida. Globalized activities have become the norm, and it is reasonable to expect education to follow this trend.