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Why Schools Shouldn’t Be The Only Answer To The Need For Social Skills
There are many arguments for online communication. There’s no need to advertise it. From email through chatting to VoIP like Skype: We all do it. But there are growing concerns that these activities are increasingly unsocial: That chatting is a cheap substitute for real conversation and that Social Media’s defining characteristic is not social at all but rather…
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How Private Teachers And Tutors Are Silently Transforming Today’s Education
For a long time in history, education was a meaningful privilege reserved for the wealthy. The idea of free public education for everyone is comparatively young. It used to be a revolutionary idea. But now it’s lagging behind, staggering, stumbling and falling flat on its face in the Information Age. As pointed out by people…
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How The Net Killed Yesterday’s Jobmarket
Whether your work is unpaid or gives you a great salary, whether you are indirectly supported by family, governments and institutions or earn your daily bread directly. We all work. Even the unemployed do something to survive. “Yeah, but that’s not work, or is it?” Good question: What is work? Catching Up With Work In…
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Taking A Second Look At The Untapped Employment Potential of The Web
Ever wondered how many people on the planet are online? In 2000 there were 360,985,492 users worldwide. Internet World Stats predicts that in 2011 the number will rise to 2,095,006,005 That’s 2 billion users! What are all those people doing online? Let’s look at this awesome diagram created by the RuderFinn Index that describes the…
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Ebook: The Unholy Twin Of The Paperback
Reading books is one of the few well-guarded pastimes that does not require a WiFi connection or batteries… Ah, wait. No, sorry. It isn’t…. Not anymore! Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook are pushing the ebook as if there was no tomorrow. And maybe there isn’t, not for the paperback book as we know…
