Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Course Development
Courses for Practical Skills, Training for Great Businesses and Careers As the pace of change in society, business and the economy accelerates, the time frame available for learning compresses accordingly. At one time it was perfectly viable to be “educated” over the course of a four year degree or two year graduate program. Now, especially in […]
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Dropping Out Is Not The End
Dropouts still pay a social price for choosing to leave school early. Yet the very schools they abandon have in far too many cases already abandoned them. We will not “fix” the “dropout problem” by sending dropouts back to school. If school was effective for them, they wouldn’t have dropped out in the first place.
The only realistic option for dropouts – and for those of us in society who care about them – is to help them create new paths, new options, new direction.
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Training for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet
The top 10 “in demand” jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. This trend will not reverse, or even slow. If anything it is accelerating. Most of the future’s best, most important and most interesting jobs haven’t been created yet. Our mission is to provide skills training for those jobs.
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The OnRamp
Our economy is divided into those stuck in the traffic of yesterday and those in the express lane toward tomorrow. The difference is an onramp. Coming soon: OnRamp Jobs, from Canis Learning Systems.
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School As A Service
School, as we’ve known it, is out. Yet knowledge is everywhere. School As A Service is the new role for school: Structure, Assessment, Validation
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Career Grid – A Matrix for 21st Century Careers
If you’ve seen the ingeniously scary “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch, or any of the several derivatives others have tried to create, you already know this: The world is changing fast. Numbingly fast. (And if you haven’t seen the video, it’s well worth the look: Poke around YouTube or other video sites if you’d […]
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Education Ecosystem – Part I
An introduction to the “education ecosystem” and thoughts about our future.
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Hacking Education
Thoughts on the nature and process of hacking education.
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Using Smallworlds for Learning
Smallworlds rocks. A 3d virtual world, Smallworlds addresses a ton of the major drawbacks to its bigger competitors in the space: – Browser based. No downloads, no installations, no patches, no reinstalls for updates. It launches inside the Web browser and can even be embedded inside Web systems. This makes the transition from, for example, […]
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SLoodling Along?
Progress comes in bumps and slides, sometimes. You work along for a while with nothing to show for it, and then all of the sudden a few things start to come together. You take those few things and add a few more things; before you know it, you’ve made a little progress. That’s how things […]
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