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Roger Schank
@rogerschank
CEO, Socratic Arts; Former Professor (of AI) at Stanford, Yale, and Northwestern. Building "Deep Dives" as an alternative to learning by listening.
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statnews.com/2022/01/21/ibm
IBM was lying from the start; who knew?
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Let’s make sure we don’t pay attention to smart kids
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nypost.com/2021/10/28/sch
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Let’s discuss the quadratic equation? Like why teach it when you will ever use it
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why? online can be much more engaging if it is done right - which it rarely is
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Overwhelming majority of survey respondents were only interested in campus-based study, with just 10 per cent prepared to countenance fully online learning
timeshighereducation.com/news/pandemic-
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But do they know how to teach online? I did build some courses for them years ago but I doubt they learned how to anything from that
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Harvard Business School moved first-year MBA and some second-year students to remote learning as breakthrough cases climb bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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US news isn’t interested in education. They know they are doing a.bad thing but money
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"It's designed for the wealthy and wealthy schools, and that’s always been what it’s about,” said one former president.
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unfortunately no; VCs are not education experts
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Is the physical lecture dead? No, say a group of VCs I'm listening to right now: students value "shared listening", even in a traditional lecture format, and turning up to physical lectures gives the "excuse" to stay on campus for a club or society etc.. #THEWAS
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Elon Musk’s bizarre Tesla bot demo exposed the truth of many tech reveals: They are a storyboarded vision of the future held together by digital duct tape: wired.trib.al/D0RRKvK
📷: Tesla
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Oregon governor signs bill suspending math, reading proficiency requirements for HS graduates foxnews.com/us/oregon-gove #FoxNews we will all die; no math? no reading tests? calculus is as important as air (or something)
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linkedin.com/pulse/sexual-h
Gov Cuomo needs "training"
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they focus on making their lives easier
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When academics do tackle curricular reform, they often focus on improving the structure of a particular course rather than on altering the path to a degree.
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Latin to be introduced at 40 state secondaries in England theguardian.com/education/2021 Are the Romans back?
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first God created idiots -- that was just for practice, then he created School Boards --MARK TWAIN
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Even Mary Beard, Prof of Classics at Cambridge, in 'Confronting Classics' wrote "many of the arguments now used to justify the learning of Latin are now perilous...honestly if you want to learn French, you'd be better off doing that, not starting with some other language first"
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California parents want to keep online learning as a fall option, poll finds latimes.com/california/sto so kids dont "fall behind"
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National outcry as University of Sheffield’s world-renowned archaeology department faces threat of closure
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In Advice: Can Yale change its humanities culture to match the reality of the job market for its doctoral students? chroni.cl/2S3Xxco
or lies lies lies
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96.4% of top executives report that AI is the number one disruptive technology that they were investing in - yet most learning professionals see it as irrelevant or ethically unpalatable - big problem forbes.com/sites/ciocentr
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Protecting teacher’s jobs is her #1 priority
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Breaking News: Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers’ union, plans to call for a full reopening of schools for the next academic year.
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Reaction: Georgia's university system will bring back ACT/SAT requirement, prompting an admissions official to reach for "a stiff bourbon." bit.ly/3w33SDK
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USC President Caslen’s grad speech has wording nearly identical to another speaker’s thestate.com/news/local/edu even univ presidents cheat
Homeschool revolution: More parents than ever are against public schools nypost.com/2021/05/08/mor via
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In Advice: A new book argues that grades are not a good motivational tool and are often at odds with real learning. chroni.cl/3nofqym
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Prince Philip's cause of death has been confirmed ca.style.yahoo.com/prince-philips via who would have known?
Dad who yanked child from 'woke' Manhattan school says others are doing the same nypost.com/2021/05/05/dad via
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Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced nypost.com/2021/05/03/bil via maybe then he could stop screwing up education--which he was supposedly doing to please her
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“When I went to university I found that I didn’t have to learn in the way that teachers at school said I had to. I was suddenly allowed to be excited about the weird and uncomfortable things. This freedom was so liberating and invigorating.”
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Have to make sure they know the quadratic equation twitter.com/JoshGoodman_BU
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More useless “training”
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Make sexual consent training mandatory for enrolment, say students in wake of publication of thousands of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on UK campuses
bit.ly/3eG9eO6
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Unemployed, Miserable Man Still Remembers Teacher Who First Made Him Fall In Love With Writing
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No, Virginia is not moving to eliminate advanced high school math classes washingtonpost.com/local/educatio less useless math? OMG; we will all die
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stop saying "everyone must go to college"
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Americans hold huge education debt. Eighty years of higher-ed ideology are to blame. chroni.cl/3aEYRcq
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