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3 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Transform Public Education
It was in the early 60ies that a University first experimented with using computers to teach kids maths, according to Wikipedia. That was 50 years ago. That’s half a century! If technology could really revolutionize education it has had plenty of time to do so. According to technologists, the problem is that schools simply aren’t…
Hey Kids, We’re On A Road To Nowhere!
Do you remember the day you finished school? (Or maybe you’re still looking forward to it…) That feeling to finally venture out into the Big Wide World full of adventures and achievements. That sweet promise of freedom! The looming sense of responsibilities… India Trips And The Not-So-Hip Cubicle Nation My grandparents’ generation went straight from school…
Everybody wants to be Free. Nobody wants to change.
Have you ever heard your co-workers, classmates, etc. complain about their current situation? Something along the lines of “Not enough pay. Too many over-hours.” or “Stupid professors. Boring seminars.” and if you listen very closely you might hear the three famous words of “I should quit.” And then – the next day (who would’ve guessed?)…
We’re not lacking any Information
The amount of information we consume everyday is more than one person in the past had access to in his or her whole lifetime. Books used to be copied by hand in monasteries. They were treasured possessions. Not everyone could read. So if you actually knew facts about different countries, history or religions it was…
“From Monologic Teaching to Dialogic Learning”
Asher Idan is the Manager of Future Studies of Social Media, in The Department of Management in Tel Aviv University. Lecturer about Web 2.0 in Bar Ilan University. Consultant to top Israeli boards and R&D: Intel, SAP, Comverse, Cellcom, Orange, Superpharm, Tnuva Almost every day he is speaking at different conferences, universites and assemblies about…
A wink from the future…
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” – William Gibson Few days after the volcano explosion in Iceland, followed by closing part of the European air space for flights, we can pull back and see that nothing bad happened. In a way the ash cloud made us focus on what we already…