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The many surprising ways education is changing in the 21st century Technology gets all the glory, but what's currently happening in education goes way beyond gadgets.
Education is constantly changing to meet the needs of students and the work opportunities that are available to individuals when they leave school or college. The most recent changes that have altered the face of education in the 21st century are mostly focused on the development of technology and the types of jobs that teachers are preparing students for. This article covers some of the main trends that education is currently following. Increased importance of graduate schemes Although in previous years simply gaining a bachelor’s degree was enough to secure a successful career for many students, more and more people are now deciding to take up graduate schemes at different…
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15 terrible students who became wildly successful The report card doesn't matter much in the real world.
Spending time in the education system is not a guarantee of success, and for some it even turns out to be an impediment. You are already familiar with classic ‘dropout’ stories like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, but there are many more inspirational stories worth a look. Barry Charles Diller (1942) Barry Diller first found a way into business by working at the mail room of the William Morris Agency, a job he found worthy enough to drop out of UCLA after only three weeks of attendance. While working there, Diller learned the inside scoop on the entertainment industry by reading the mail of everyone of importance in the agency.…
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Things school doesn’t teach you about money—but should Students are more ignorant than ever when it comes to real-world stuff like financial literacy.
Students today are being churned out of college more ignorant than ever before, at least when it comes to real-world stuff like financial literacy. A study in the Journal of Consumer Marketing reveals that the majority of college students now don’t even know the interest rates on their credit cards. That’s because behind the veneer of high tech gadgets, the whole education system is a relic from simpler times. Your grandparents could go to college for the few hundred dollars they earned in their spare time and come out set for life, but students today are taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars in crippling life-long loans to learn a…
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The pitfalls of technology in education The advantages are undeniable, but watch out for these traps.
When it comes to shaping the world around us, technology is one of the most robust tools we can use. Plenty of educational institutions are riding this new wave of inventions into a bright future. The conveniences that come with using technology are currently unmatched. Teachers can now conduct lessons over the internet, issue and receive assignments, test, and grade their students without having to go to class. We see an influx in the number of people capable of accessing formal education due to these advantages. But our reliance on technology does come with its own set of issues. This article will explore them and discuss how they affect our…
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How to write a killer essay The pen is mightier than the sword, but it's useless if you don't wield it right.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but it’s useless if you don’t wield it right. Great writing takes practice – a lot of it – and you need to have the insight to know which skills and techniques to work on. Nobody is expecting you to write like Mark Twain, but in a world of 6.5 billion literate people, the standards keep going higher. The best time to start learning is, of course, yesterday. …or you can keep spending money on “write my essay for me” type services to have the experts do your work, which is what the rich kids are doing. Whether you’re writing an essay for…
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The new rules: writing effective essays in the modern college A pragmatic approach that takes into account both student and institutional weaknesses.
Making the transition from high school to college is tough on most students. Modern high schools only provide you with the most rudimentary knowledge, and the sudden jump in difficulty is accompanied by a shipwrecking on a strange learning island with entirely new life circumstances and unexplored freedoms and challenges. But for now, we’ll only deal with how to write effective essays that will get you ahead of the curve. This requires a pragmatic approach and going beyond all the already ample material on writing tips and citation styles. We take into account the dreaded P-word: politics. So let’s get to our strategies on how to write stellar college essays…
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Choosing the right educational tech for your classroom It's ultimately about the student.
Technological innovations make life more efficient, but having a clear strategy on how to implement them is especially important in the field of education. There are hundreds of programs, gadgets, widgets, zippers, and zappers to choose from, most of them custom-built for education and promising you the world – and they’re marketed by marketing pros rather than educational pros. So how to choose? In this article, we explore how to navigate the world of education technology to optimize learning and student participation at a reasonable budget. When to use technology in the classroom In technology, as is the case with any of our tools, being able to use it does…
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Peer-reviewed paper: sexbots need ability to consent You'll need to "communicate carefully" with their "consent-modules" to avoid robot rape.
A peer-reviewed paper recently published in the International Journal of Social Robotics argues that sex robots should be programmed to decide whether or not they consent to their owner’s sexual advances. University of Wollongong PhD student Anco Peeters and Radboud University Professor Pim Haselager say that the move would help the “cultivation of compassion.” “Like consenting humans, a robot and its human partner will have to communicate carefully about the kind of interaction that will take place,” Peeters and Haselager write. “And like in a relationship between humans, this communication could potentially result in the robot sometimes not consenting and terminating the interaction.” In other words, these academics believe sex…
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Feminist intellectuals: text appearing next to text that disagrees with it is a form of corrective rape, holocaust Nonconsentual coplatforming.
“The road to evil is paved with good intentions.” When the London-based Institute for Art and Ideas solicited six feminist philosophers for their views on the question, “How can philosophy change the way we understand the transgender experience and identity?” little did they know they were about to commit an act of nonconsentual coplatforming, a newly discovered and particularly violent form of corrective rape so brutal that feminist intellectuals compare it to the holocaust. These are the intellectual ideas currently belching out of feminism in a dykefight that so far has seen an article disappeared from the internet and three feminists derided as genocidal neo-nazi rapists. Holly Lawford-Smith, one of…