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• Maryam Kontagora-Computer Scientist

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 471
  RGU News reports on Maryam Kontagoras parallel computing work: Using the spare cycles of the computers at the University, Maryam ran a myriad of concurrent MapReduce jobs to simulate hundreds of users searching and sorting on Google at the same time, ultimately improving the results of these ...
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• The Builder- Designing The Future of Educational Leadership

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  If we are to create "tomorrows" educationalorganization and model, are the leaders of "yesterdays" model theleaders we will need to build "tomorrows" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transformits leaders? If we are to create a new educational organization, then does itfollow, we would need a ...
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• New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia Growing up in the ’70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to the collar. “I was constantly being called a geek or a nerd,” he recalled, chuckling. Dr. Halamka grew up to be ...
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• How Good Is Your Educational Sales Force and Their Products?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  I have been read and enjoyed a great book called Death To All Sacred Cows by David Bernstein , Beau Fraser , and Bill Schwab of The Gate Worldwide . It has nothing to do with education, so, of course, I was instantly attracted to it.   In their chapter titled The Sales Force Makes The Sale, they write about ...
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• Blending Education and Design

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Allow me to dream and muse for a moment. Allow me to dream of a blending, a fusion of education and design. Allow me to imagine, just for a moment, a new design all together different from what we know. A Design that enhances learning. A Design that creates a learning environment. An environment that makes learning ...
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• Education Innovation: Nominated For The 2009 Edublog Awards

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are thousands of excellent blogs about education and I enjoyreading many of them. That is why it is so humbling for me to have thisblog, Education Innovation nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards in the   Best Individual Edublog category . It is an honor to be included amongthe other nominees, many of ...
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• Education Needs To Take A Trip

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Trust. We all want it, but do we all give it? It is a crucial issue for teachers and administrators. Chapter 3 of the book The Collaborative Administrato r is titled “Trust: The Secret Ingredient to Successful Shared Leadership.” Trust is a key to school success. “What then should a principal do to lay ...
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• Do Your Educational Assumptions Provide Educational Alternatives?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Do your assumptions about what education should be leave you with a lack of alternatives? One of the reasons why many people, including myself, love books like Freakonomics , Super Freakonomics , Predictably Irrational , or The Economic Naturalist is that is takes our assumptions about the world around us and ...
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• 9 Signs of a Losing School

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  From the I dea Management Systems blog comes this post The 9 Signs of a Losing Organisation Fuzzy Vision Lack of Leadership Skills Discouraging Culture High Bureaucracy Lack of Initiative Poor Vertical Communication Poor Cross-functional Collaboration Poor Teamwork Idea and Knowledge ...
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• Voting with their Wallets

  
  Science Progress — Authority: 568
  OK, it’s official. A new study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has now confirmed what professors have been saying privately for years: the brightest American students aren’t going into science and engineering careers nearly as often as they used to. But the reason is not, as some people say, that young ...
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• Apply for your spot at TEDxSoMa on January 22 (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryEditor’s note: This post is sponsored by TEDxSoMa.On January 22nd, 2010, San Francisco and the world wide web will be treated to an incredibly interactive, educational, and inspiring event known as TEDxSoMa. TEDxSoMa will bring the TED experience to a local level, bringing together innovative ...
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• Dynamic Teacher Collaboration- Harness The Power of "Q"

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Research has proven that Professional Learning Communities are one of the most powerful educational paradigms. The Professional Learning Community takes the individual teacher and hooks them into a network of their grade level or department level peers. This network in turn makes it possible for teacher to leverage ...
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• Essential Education: “Awesomely Simple” by John Spence

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Turning Your School Into A "Skunk Works" of Lateral Innovation

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Innovation should not be linear. Most of us are familiar with examples of the great innovation teams from the business and engineering world. Examples such as Xerox- PARC’ s group, to Apple’s Macintosh group, to Lockheed Martin’s famous “ Skunk Works ” have lead many of us to believe that innovative ideas ...
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• Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Super-Smart Learning

  
  Brain Pickings — Authority: 494
  Why playing Oregon Trail is like learning basic Japanese, or how to beat the Ebbinghaus Curve. For a scientifically inclined utopian, technology is the potential antidote to all of society’s ills. Techno-optimists believe every challenge, from cancer to cleanliness, has an applied-science solution. Most of us ...
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