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Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls
There is hope ! Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls #TED : http://on.ted.com/iPeP
Looks interesting. Drawback is they are not free like Coursera…..
I just finished Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? (Kindle Single) by Rheingold, Howard on Kindle for Android! http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid/
The Wisdom Initiative | A workshop for creative, innovative thoughts on pursuing wisdom, justice and virtue in the human experience…..
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.
Self Made Scholar | On line learning as a do it yourself project. Get educated !
Look ! 12 dozen places to educate yourself online for free…..
http://goo.gl/JGIiV | Do sports build character ? Of course they do, but not necessarily good character…..
humdrumstar: That’s what Newsweek asks.Newsweek: College as a Lousy Investment?
Well, that depends on whether or not you actually think it’s a guarantee to a slice of the capitalist dream. If you go to college expecting the return on your investment to be a home in the suburbs or a job, well, go to trade school. I never saw college as an investment but as an opportunity to learn. Whatever came after that was what came after that. Retool your expectations for education and maybe you’ll get something out of it. Universities aren’t job factories.
http://goo.gl/pE7iX | Leo has some really good ideas here; things to teach your kids that they won’t learn in school. Hell, some of them I’m not terrible proficient at….
