next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (Democracy and Education, Macmillan, NY, 1916).
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Virginia Hefernan, in her article “My Wired Youth,” confirms what I’ve guessed all along: Teens aren’t dumb. They can spot the creeps in online forums. She says, “Things rarely got more intense than ‘I’d really love to kiss you,’ and when the conversations turned openly sexy, I’d beat it, a reaction echoed by the kids [...]
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Students are increasingly creating and posting videos on YouTube, and they sometimes depict violence, either staged or real. In West Chicago, “School officials struggle with discipline as students’ fascination with video-recorded fighting grows” (Vikki Ortiz, “Students Staging Fights for YouTube Publicity,” chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2008). For the full article, click here.
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