“Ultimately, our ability to work meaningfully with others will determine the success of our enterprises, and that ability is honed through the humanities and social sciences.”
“There used to be 300 department stores then discount retail disrupted them and now there are seven or eight. What’s different about higher education?”
“If there is a single guarantor of student success, it is ongoing contact with faculty members.”
“Organizational capacity increases when control over learning is handed to motivated learners.”
“We thought, this is not the kind of person we want in our community.” Pitzer College Dean of Admission
“The phones are tracking everywhere the students go, who they meet and when, and every text they send.”
“While the MOOCs are associated with high-status universities, Alison’s focus is on the vast numbers of people around the world needing to improve their vocational skills and training.”
“These days, ‘the state of permanent receptivity’ has become the birthright of anyone with a smartphone.”
“What ho, callow youth! What royal repast wilt thou engorge thy brains on?”
“It is the first glimpse of a promising and balanced ‘right to be forgotten’”
“So many of those debates fail to even acknowledge or realize that we can educate ourselves, even in the digital era, to be more attentive.”
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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.
Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.
– Peter Nilsson