Don’t Lecture Me: The Problem with Lecturing
Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/dropouts/
Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? An article about the schools in Finland being the best in the world. It’s a long article but laced throughout with ideas and actions that overturn our conventional wisdom over here in the U.S. – posted 9/29/11
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html
Transforming Teaching Through Technology. A website from Jordan High School in Durham, NC, with online activities and links to various resources. – posted 9/29/11
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/section/8/37/
Flipboard is a social magazine application developed for the Apple iPad tablet computer. It can take real-time media streams, such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr photo accounts and turn them into something that looks like a magazine. – posted 9/29/11
A Talk by Malcolm Gladwell. “Why do some succeed while others fail? What makes high achievers different?” (Note: The person introducing Mr. Gladwell is not easy to hear, but the rest of the interview is clearer.) Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. – posted 9/28/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9ax4QvzoQ&NR=1
The 10,000 hour rule. A short interview between Anderson Cooper and Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell discusses a princle from his book Outliers, which he calls, the “10,000 hour rule”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2n1Jlx5P0&feature=player_embedded
Impatient Optimists. An article on community colleges from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See the text in red (in the article) for links to statistics on how community college degrees can help combat unemployment and poverty. – Posted 9/28/11
Changing Education Paradigms – An ” RSA animate” video, adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Rethinking the Way College Students are Taught – by Emily Hanford; an article from American Radio Works
Flipping the Classroom – from NCSU’s College of Education and The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/fizz/pd/lecture
For more information about FIZZ: http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/fizz/pd/original
Schools Kill Creativity – a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, filmed in February 2006 for the TED talks series
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
From Andragogy to Heutagogy – byStewart Hase and Chris Kenyon. An article about new a new approach in adult learning — moving from androgogy (teaching adults) to heutogogy (self-determined learning).
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec00/hase2.htm
Let_s Use Video to Reinvent Education (20 minutes) a talk by Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, filmed in March 2011 for the TED talks series
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
For more information on the Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
OVAE Connection (electronic newsletter); to subscribe e-mail: ovae_newsletter@ed.gov
The Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) administers and coordinates programs that are related to adult education and literacy, career and technical education, and community colleges.
On-line GED newsletter. Sign up here!
www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ged/etp/pros/Subscribe_to_GED_New.htm
Website for the new 2014 GED test: Computer-based Testing
21st Century Bibliography
Books
- Grown Up Digital Don Tapscott
- The Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler
- The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria
- The Future and Its Enemies Virginia Postel
- Spiral Dynamics Don Beck & Chris Cowan
- The Fourth Turning Bill Strauss & Neil Howe
- The World Is Flat Tom Friedman
- A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink
- Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together William Isaacs
- Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
- A New Kind of Christianity Brian McLaren
- As the Future Catches You Juan Enriquez
- The Age of the Unthinkable Joshua Conner Ramo
- The Clash of Civilizations Samuel P. Huntington
- The Great Reset Richard Florida
- Dark Ages America Morris Berman
- The Third Wave Alvin Toffler
- Linked: The New Science of Networks Albert Laszlo Barabasi
- Networks of Innovation Ilkka Tuomi
- Smart World Richard Ogle
- Freefall Joseph Stiglitz
- Re-Imagining Tom Peters
- The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby
- The End of Oil Paul Roberts
- It’s Alive Chris Meyer & Stan Davis
- Microtrends Mark Penn & Kinney Zalesne
- Radical Evolution Joel Garreau
- Biomimicry Janine Benyus
- A Vision for 2012 John Peterson
- Nanotechnology Lynn Foster
- China, Inc Ted Fishman
Magazines
- Wired
- Atlantic Monthly
- Fast Company
- The Futurist
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