Notices tagged with college
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2014 00:49:27 EST Joshua Judson Rosen OMG this perfectly sets up for (but doesn't actually get into) the big problem I had with #college: #q "And then, in your late teens... The brain is basically saying I'm here to learn about adulthood. Show me what I need to know." http://www.npr.org/2013/09/06/211722893/is-30-really-the-new-20 -
Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2013 16:26:24 EST Erkan Yılmaz "was able to identify by name 30% of students on a North American #college campus simply by taking their #picture and matching it to a database of publically available images downloaded from #Facebook." cc @question -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2013 18:10:34 EST Joshua Judson Rosen Interview-subject on NHPR today offered a browbeating for #Thrun about ‘Why Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Failed’: http://nhpr.org/post/why-massive-open-online-courses-moocs-failed #moocs #college !eduposse -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2013 10:32:01 EST Joshua Judson Rosen #q #paulgraham "If you try to start a startup right out of #college and it tanks, you'll end up at 23 broke and a lot smarter. Which, if you think about it, is roughly what you hope to get from a graduate program." !eduposse -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2013 19:53:29 EST Joshua Judson Rosen Sebastian #Thrun on his experience developing `Univeristy 2.0': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkneoNrfadk #college -
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Sokal affair
Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions? No?
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Sir Ken Robinson: How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity? : NPR
Ken Robinson interviewed on the NPR TED Radio Hour.
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It's Time to End 'Physics for Poets' | Inside Higher Ed
I was excited when I first heard the phrase, "physics for poets"; I guess I shouldn't have been.
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Higher education as investment opportunity
"Opponents to free higher education tend to point out how many students have trouble finding jobs after they graduate, especially those who chose to major in humanities. However, if we look at it from the same perspective as venture capitalists…"
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Steve tells the new Stanford graduates that the only way to get what you want is to go after it, and so dropping out was one of the best decisions he ever made--because then he got to take the classes he needed to.
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University sues student who 'studied too fast' - The Local
Student completes 11 semesters of college in 3 semesters; surprised when he ends up being sued by the college, who still want the rest of the tuition.
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New York City gets a Software Engineering High School - Joel on Software
"This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software…, [but] it's not a vocational school…."
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2011 12:03:02 EST Joshua Judson Rosen @drysdam, did you do #learning while you were alseep in iviless #college?