Education Blog
Mad Skills Watch: Blended Learning Edition
June 23, 2011 by Paul Richlovsky
In this era of budget cuts, smart schools do whatever they can to keep efficient. Yesterday’s “Story of the Day” from NPR showed how a couple elementary charter schools in California make use of blended learning to improve instruction while saving money.
Blended learning, as the name suggests, is a combination of a computer-based lesson with traditional classroom instruction. When schools need to raise class sizes, one way to preserve individual attention is to divide the class into two parts—one on self-guided computers, the other in a small group with a teacher—and then swap half the time.
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Category: Education Technology
5 Step Guide to Finding Your First Job
June 22, 2011 by Joel Milani
Your first job will likely be the hardest to find. You might not where to look, and you probably don’t have any experience outside of waiting tables and folding jeans.
Luckily, our friends over at ResumeEdge.com recently put together a guide to nabbing that first job. This post was written by Darlene Zambruski, Managing Editor at ResumeEdge, and is reposted with permission.
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Category: Career
Mad Skills Watch: Mindfulness Edition
June 16, 2011 by Paul Richlovsky
Imagine any of these scenarios: You’re in a classroom. You’re on a hospital bed in pain. You’re at a corporate training session (maybe also in pain). You’re in a psychologist’s office. All of these settings have been used to apply the concept of mindfulness since it first become popular for stress management in the 1970s, according to David Winter of the blog Careers – in Theory.
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Category: Job Skills, Learning Styles
Dressing for a Job Interview | PutThisOn.com
June 14, 2011 by Joel Milani
What should you wear to a job interview?
It’s one of the most common questions people ask about interviews, and there is a lot of advice to read out there. I’d always heard that you should dress one level above the one you’re applying for. That means if the company dress code is casual or business casual, you should wear a suit. But that same suit would look ridiculous if you’re applying to work as a pool life guard. A simple polo shirt with chinos would probably do.
Jesse Thorn, from the men’s style blog PutThisOn.com, tackles the question, and adds a few tips on how to find out what is appropriate dress in your prospective workplace. His main piece of advice is to “convey that you care about the opportunity, and that you’re willing to be part of the team. You should dress conservatively, without ostentation, and err on the side of formality.”
Any other tips? Leave them in the comments section.
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Category: Career
Entrepreneurship Roundup: Good Books and More
June 10, 2011 by Paul Richlovsky
The intrepid staff over at Brazen Careerist recently named a bunch of great entrepreneurship books recommended by Bill Murphy Jr., author of The Intelligent Entrepreneur: How Three Harvard Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship.
I won’t spoil the list other than to say that it involves Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin, which I’ve heard is a terrific read in general.
For additional stimulating thoughts on entrepreneurship, check out the following past posts of ours covering advice from an entrepreneur, the best career-change blogs, and starting self-employment for the right reasons:
- What To Do if You Were Just Fired
- Graduate Entrepreneurs Making Most of “Jobless Recovery”
- Entrepreneurs, Turn Back Now!
- Entrepreneurs, You Should Go to School to Stay in Business
- The Best Career-Change Blogs
See school in your working future? Learn more about career-focused entrepreneurship degrees and other related business, management and finance degrees.
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The Profound Weirdness of Quantum Mechanics | TED Talks
June 7, 2011 by Joel Milani
One of the most fascinating things about the sciences is the exploration of the unknown. Science is perpetuated by curiosity, as are the education programs that we collectively refer to as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). And it’s that same curiostiy that led Aaron O’Connell to imagine the possibility of quantum behavior in an observable setting.
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College Cost-Benefit Analysis: More Food for Thought
June 2, 2011 by Paul Richlovsky
We’ve touched on this subject many times before, and here’s yet another reason to think long and hard before forking over your hard-earned cash or taking out an expensive loan.
PBS NewsHour recently hosted a debate on the stratospheric costs of college vs. the potential benefits. Among the featured debaters were Richard Vedder of CCAP and Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University, who went head-to-head. Not surprisingly, Roth came down completely pro-college (“College is a great investment”), while the economist Vedder maintained his college skepticism. What was surprising about Roth’s views, however, is how stridently he appeared to dismiss non-traditional higher education as “specialized … technical, entrepreneurial fantasies” (albeit without directly implicating which kinds of schooling were snake oil).
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Category: Career, Higher Education
Academics, Take Charge of Your Science! | Wikipedia Update
May 31, 2011 by Joel Milani
Not long ago we talked about the relative lack of academic credibility on Wikipedia.org. It’s clear why: Anyone with a computer and internet connection can edit Wikipedia articles. And while some scholars have lent their expertise to the site, a large number still read without contributing. Wikipedia is looking to attract more authoritative authors, and it looks like they’re getting some help from the Association for Psychological Science:
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Category: Education Technology
The Future of College: Examining an “Unschooler’s” Manifesto
May 26, 2011 by Paul Richlovsky
Let’s take a quick multiple-choice quiz. If you’re critical of college (and the institutionalized American education system in general), you might say it …
a) acts as a cocoon;
b) is a lumbering, antiquated machine;
c) doesn’t prepare you for anything except more college;
d) is a business that makes a lot of money off its clients.
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The Pell Grant Problem
May 24, 2011 by Joel Milani
Pell Grants have lately taken center stage in the debate over the legitimacy of for-profit colleges. But regardless of whether you’re for or against for-profit education, the availability of Pell Grants themselves remains a separate issue.
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Category: FAFSA, Financial Aid, Grants
