The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Public release date: 2-Nov-2012 . Contact: Evan Nowell . egn2109@columbia.edu . Columbia Business School Building small: In many industries, economies of size is shifting to economies of numbers NEW YORK — November 2, 2012 — For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power …
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Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say MATT RICHTEL – The New York Times Pedagogies such as that used in Waldorf education counteract this trend. We know what kids need to learn appropriately and in a life-affirming way. We just don’t choose to do it.
Open education has at least three components: free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time). More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous. Open education has …
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Open and Shut Mark Pesce MoosesCloud, 27 October 2012 EXTRACT: “Closed can not fight open. It can not find purchase to land a blow. Microsoft has fought a decades-long war against Linux, only to lose the battle conclusively as the world moves to smartphones (Android), and embedded devices (such as the Light) running Linux. Windows …
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The Limits of Crowdsourcing Crisis Information and The Promise of Advanced Computing First, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the dozen or so iRevolution readers who recently contacted me. I have indeed not been blogging for the past few weeks but this does notmean I have decided to stop blogging altogether. I’ve simply been …
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The Military’s New Challenge: Knowing What They Know by Chris Young Harvard Business Review | 2:00 PM September 20, 2012 For soldiers in the field, immediate access to — and accurate interpretation of — real-time imagery and intelligence gathered by drones, satellites, or ground-based sensors can be a matter of life and death. Capitalizing on …
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