Get inside your own head

The Power of Introverts
"Stop the calls for constant group work"
We need freedom, autonomy, and wilderness.
Perhaps in our need to sell ourselves and create minds with emotional intelligence to win friends and influence people, we have failed to develop our ability to work independently and study our-selves. Inter-persona understanding is as important as Intra-personal understanding.

If we are experts at working in groups of broken individuals, then we can not succeed. We need to work upon ourselves first.

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Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides

60% of American Schools are cosidered Title-1 (i.e. at least 40% of their students qualify for free lunch because they don't meet Federal poverty level standards).
CK12 - Open access textbooks. What is "Academic Literacy", "Paradata"?There are three learning 'skills' that students can learn from participating in an online wiki:

Expert thinking

New Media Literacy

Complex communicating and collaboration

In this research of 200 public school wiki projects, only 2% used complex communicating and collaborations.

Dr. Michio Kaku Says America Has An Achilles' Heel

Get rid of the H1 visa, and you will get high paying jobs for Americans, but we will lose our quality of life, because we lack the educational system to compete.The way to fix the American educational system is through cooperation rather than competition.

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With an objective standard of success, teachers only perform at 13%. How should teaching be organized? The most talented teachers can't teach 25 different brains at the same time.

Choose your modality: Dine-in with a Live teacher, Take-out online with home-based learning, or have education Delivered with a private tutor.

What if all students had individual education, from teachers anywhere in the world?

With special software we can monitor the DAILY progress of each student, see trends where learning is getting stuck, and target both the students and the skills to teach the teachers how to teach better.

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There have been some big changes at School of One since this episode originally aired. Joel Klein, you probably know, left his job as schools chancellor (and landed in a very different universe). And Joel Rose left School of One to start a new non-profit organization that hopes to take the mixed-modality model national. We’ll be sure to update his progress on this blog. It’s quite possible that cities across the country will soon start experimenting with a classroom experience that looks very much like what School of One has been doing in New York.

What did Obama accomplish in Education?

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Race to the top, failed. In California our schools have been failing for 40 years. This isn't Obama's fault, but he wanted the job of cleaning up the mess. We need leadership.

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