Education

Frank Whittemore on May 18th, 2013

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Frank Whittemore on April 9th, 2013

Riveting Talks by Remarkable People, Free to the World… Have you visited the TED website recently? It is very well organized and now contains a new link to TED Ed – Education Lessons Worth Sharing. Click here to access the updated TED website. Click here to view TED books on Amazon.com. Also, just discovered and [...]

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Frank Whittemore on April 5th, 2013

Minerva is offering a uniquely rigorous and challenging university education to the brightest of the world’s future leaders … Click here to view their website. Click here to view a New York Times column titled “The Practical University”. Click here to access their Facebook page.

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Frank Whittemore on April 3rd, 2013

Click here to access the Huffington Post report. Click here to learn about edX. Click here to learn more about Coursera. Click here to learn more about the future of education.

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Frank Whittemore on February 27th, 2013

Can Your Kid Code? . . Click here to access a USA Today article about this video.

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Frank Whittemore on January 30th, 2013

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Frank Whittemore on January 15th, 2013

In this correspondence (posted with permission), Ray Kurzweil and MIT president L. Rafael Reif discuss the future of online education and its impacts on residential education. Also see the three related posts… Click here to read all about it on the Forbes website. Click here to learn more about online education.

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Frank Whittemore on January 1st, 2013

The statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest salvo in the long-running debate over how much of a young child’s time at school should be devoted to academics — and how much should go to free, unstructured playtime. Click here to access the ABC News report. Why School?: How Education Must Change [...]

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Frank Whittemore on October 25th, 2012

Click here to access the entire Wall Street Journal report. Click here to access an earlier post titled “Why School”.

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Frank Whittemore on October 21st, 2012

Click here to learn more about the Ted Book “Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere (Kindle Single)“. Book Description – “Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on ‘critical [...]

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