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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Students want their own space, a place where their parents and the older generation don’t intrude. When older people try to join their social networks, they feel it’s “creepy.” Gary Rudman, a California-based youth market researcher, says, “It would be like a 40-year-old attending the prom or a frat party. It just doesn’t work.” (“Young [...]
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In their study, Ellison et al. found that SNSs (social network sites) such as Facebook help new college students maintain connections with their high school communities. They may do the same for colleges, “with alumni keeping their school email address and using Facebook to stay in touch with the college community. Such connections could have [...]
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Donna Fuscaldo: “Social networking isn’t only the domain of the twenty-something set. Increasingly, corporations and business professionals are embracing this new way to communicate and network. From established corporate social networking Web site Linkedin, to upstart SkyLounge (which went live last week) to embedded social networking in human resources applications, companies across the country are [...]
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With a grant from Verizon, West Virginia University will “create a social networking Web site promoting 21st century career opportunities among middle and high school students in West Virginia.” It “will host discussion groups, chats and blogs on relevant topics and an ‘Ask the Counselor’ section where students can ask questions concerning academic or career [...]
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