Technology Is Not the Enemy

January 6, 2011

I hear a constant refrain on many fronts that somehow technology is the enemy of true education. However, I see so many upsides to technology and how it can be used to promote more and better education. Sylvia Martinez’ post, Your Brain Might Freeze That Way, expresses my frustration with complaints about technology better than [...]

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Targeting Our Self-Education

December 28, 2010

While reading Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, I was struck by the brilliance of something he said. Godin believes schools today should be teaching just two things: (1) solving interesting problems, and (2) leadership. How beautiful is that simple directive? Isn’t solving problems what education is all about? How does the universe work? What [...]

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Resist the Industrial Model

November 16, 2010

I ran across this quote by one of my favorite playwrights, David Mamet, as I was reading Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (The book is great and I’ll post a review of it soon.) The quote applies to much of life, and it most certainly applies to self-education. If you wholeheartedly embrace the industrial [...]

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OK, Self-Education It Is

November 12, 2010

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know I made the conscious decision from the start to use self education instead of the more conventional spelling of self-education. I had my reasons, but after a steady series of times when my grammatical skills have been called into question, I give in. From now [...]

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Is Self-Teaching the Future of Education?

November 7, 2010

This TED talk about self-teaching illustrates the power of self education and how its proper deployment can change the way we educate our children for the better. At the same time, the findings of the research discussed in this talk have application to adult learning as well. We must move away from the concept that [...]

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Four Tips for New Self-Learners

November 2, 2010

This guest post is contributed by Alvina Lopez, who writes on the topics of accredited online colleges .  She welcomes your comments at her email ID: alvina.lopez@gmail.com. Although our education shouldn’t stop after we graduate from college or complete a training program, it’s sometimes hard to carry on the routine of constantly learning new things. Some of us [...]

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Building a Workplace Learning Culture

September 3, 2010

In a previous post I talked about the need to keep informal learning in the workplace truly informal. Another, and even more important, component to successful self education in the workplace is building a learning culture. What do I mean by a learning culture? Companies and organizations, particularly very large ones, tend to get mired [...]

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How to Study

September 1, 2010

I stumbled upon a great web site today, how-to-study.com. Dr. Charles Mangrum and Dr. Stephen Strichart created this free study skills resource site and I love it. It targets learners/students at all levels and has a wealth of great articles and study tips. If you’re a teacher, there are also some curriculum products for sale [...]

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Museums Are Learning Opportunities

August 8, 2010

I am lucky that I live in a city, San Francisco, that has a great selection of world-class museums that offer wonderful exhibitions and learning experiences spanning history, science, art, nature and culture. Visiting my local museums, and museums in other cities when I travel, are among my favorite self education experiences. When I visit [...]

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Is Web-Based Learning the College of the Future?

August 6, 2010

At the Techonomy conference taking place now in Lake Tahoe, California, that focuses on new ways to look at the economic power of innovation, Bill Gates expressed the opinion that within five years the web will provide the means by which anyone who is self-motivated will be able to attain a world-class college education. Check [...]

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Today’s Companies Need Informal Learning Programs

July 13, 2010

Once upon a time, many American companies dedicated a significant amount of their time and resources to training their employees. One standout example, IBM, as far back as the 1930′s, was famous for their employee education programs that were in large part responsible for IBM’s success. Times have changed. Companies today are spending increasingly less [...]

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Wisdom, Your Name is Sir Ken Robinson

June 25, 2010

As readers of this blog know, TED is my favorite website. I’ve sent my readers to that site to view many of the short talks given by some of the world’s most brilliant and inspiring people. Well, now I’m sending you to one of their blog postings. It’s the first in TED’s series of community-driven [...]

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