Tag: education
member name: Reid Cornwell
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September 19, 2006 09:08 PM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
Is it possible that we are training too many scientists?
In the biology department where I work, every position we have open, . . .
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January 05, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
I was invited to speak at a local rotary club on the subject of educational reform. I presented a brief version of my "Connected Learning" whitepaper. During the Q&A a person asked a question . . .
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August 27, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
"Teaching without learning is just talk." (Unknown)
Any discussion about educational reform must establish a working concept of knowledge and how education serves the acquisition of knowledge. . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:43 PM EDT --
Imp's Report: Manual of Strategies for Discovery
"What do breakthrough scientists do that average scientists don't? What makes them different? I'm convinced that, famous scientist aren't . . .
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September 08, 2006 05:13 PM EDT --
The shiny new auditorium is filled to capacity. The audience is conspicuously silent. On the stage a glass and chrome podium awaits the speaker. In the background a state-of-the art, rear projection, theatre . . .
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August 23, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Let me make one thing pefectly clear. (Nixon) To blame the classrom teachers for the crisis in education is equivalent to blaming the combat soldier in Iraq for the mess they find themselves a part of. . . .
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August 29, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
Everyone who has read my writings knows that I am a proponent of using technology, more specifically, the Internet as a tool to reform education. Despite my protest my critics try to force this idea into . . .
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October 18, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
As you know up until 1833 our our Ph.D. programs, in natural science, were labeled as a philosophy degree in "natural philosophy". . . .
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August 25, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
After 30 years of recruiting high tech scientists for corporate positions, I have sold my company and retiring. This has all been . . .
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August 22, 2006 12:48 AM EDT --
I have been trying to rally consensus for a center for Internet research. I defined target market segments and collected names and email addresses to announce my effort. These were:
Members of Internet . . .
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November 08, 2006 02:33 PM EST --
In writing about scholarly networks in Netspace, Barry Wellman, Emanuel Koku, and Jeremy Hunsinger have described such groups as Invisible Universities. We accept their opinion as both personal and professional. . . .
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August 22, 2006 09:48 PM EDT --
With the decrease in the number of students qualifying for college, increasingly institutions rely on the reputations of their faculty to attract families to their campuses. They tout the number of Nobel . . .
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August 22, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
MySpace has been in the news because of the potential and reality of sexual predators exploiting its openness for their nefarious purposes. However, it is estimated that 60 million young people have embraced . . .
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August 23, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Let me make one thing perfectly clear. (Nixon) To blame the classroom teachers for the crisis in education is equivalent to blaming the combat soldier in Iraq for the mess they find themselves a part of. . . .
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August 24, 2006 03:55 PM EDT --
George Santayana said, 'Those who do not remember the past are condemmed to repeat it.
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and . . .
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August 16, 2006 12:52 AM EDT --
In 1948 I entered South Fork School in Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was a rural school with K-12 in the same building and there was one class per grade. Unlike my peers, I had already learned to . . .
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December 05, 2009 04:43 PM EST --
The Center for Internet Research (TCFIR) is a transdisciplinary research organization created with the purpose of systematically investigating the vast intersection of Internet technology and the . . .
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January 11, 2007 04:55 PM EST --
In 1939, Einstein stated on film that sustainable chain reactions were impossible because it took more energy to initiate a reaction than the reaction would yield, a position shared by Ernest Rutherford . . .
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August 17, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
Tuition costs are increasing faster than the rate of inflation. Why? Because we don't insist on common sense reforms!
Tenure is granted to professors that do not produce good students.
Senior professors . . .
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August 22, 2006 10:59 PM EDT --
Food for thought!
There are approximately 45,000,000 (45 million)?students matriculated in public education.
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We have spent $750,000,000,000 (750 billion) in Iraq
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What kind of education could . . .
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