Everyone would like a solution to the problem of rising college costs.
While students worry that they cannot afford a college education, U.S.
colleges and universities know they cannot really afford to educate them
either. At a technology-intensive research university like the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it now costs three times as much
to educate an undergraduate as we receive in net tuition—that is, the
tuition MIT receives after providing for financial aid. To push the
research frontier and educate innovators in science and engineering
demands costly instrumentation and unique facilities. Even for
institutions with substantial endowments, subsidizing a deficit driven
by these and other costs is, in the long run, unsustainable.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Behavior Blame Game: Why We Hate to Feel Guilty Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/10/03/blame-game-why-we-hate-to-feel-guilty/#ixzz2i5TCJw4k
When things go south and we’re to blame, we’re supposed to feel guilty. Right? Not necessarily.
It turns out that when we do something
that causes negative consequences, we actually feel less responsible for
our actions. Not only that, but we see the entire interaction
differently than we would if our actions had yielded a more positive
result.
Business Soon You Can Pay Employees at This Wisconsin Business to Snuggle With You
A new business is opening in Madison, Wisconsin that will allow
customers to cuddle with employees for a small fee. It’s called Snuggle
House, and it’s not a brothel, okay?
The soon-to-launch establishment has run into a number of snags
in advance of its opening day, which was originally slated for Tuesday.
According to ABC affiliate WKOW, the cuddle castle still needs to pass a
fire inspection as well as file a business plan with the city.
Sleep 'cleans' the brain of toxins
The brain uses sleep to wash away the waste toxins built up during a hard day's thinking, researchers have shown.
The US team believe the "waste removal system" is one of the fundamental reasons for sleep.
Their study, in the journal Science, showed brain cells shrink during sleep to open up the gaps between neurons and allow fluid to wash the brain clean.
Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn
What’s the key to effective learning? One
intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s
not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know.
To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he
or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about
the subject at hand (say, mathematics or history) and knowledge about
how learning works. Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting
the first kind of knowledge. We’re comfortable talking about concrete
information: names, dates, numbers, facts. But the guidance we offer on
the act of learning itself—the “metacognitive” aspects of learning—is
more hit-or-miss, and it shows.
In our schools, “the emphasis is on what students need to learn, whereas little emphasis—if any—is placed on training students how
they should go about learning the content and what skills will promote
efficient studying to support robust learning,” writes John Dunlosky,
professor of psychology at Kent State University in Ohio, in an article just published in American Educator.
However, he continues, “teaching students how to learn is as important
as teaching them content, because acquiring both the right learning
strategies and background knowledge is important—if not essential—for
promoting lifelong learning.”
Four Tips to Keep Students on Track When Using Devices in Class
Bringing technology into the classroom comes with a unique set of
challenges, some of which could make classroom management more
difficult if teachers don’t think out strategies beforehand. It’s hard
for teachers to keep students focused on their work when they’ve got the
internet at their fingertips. Early adopters of one-to-one device
programs discovered with trial and error what works and what doesn’t.
Now those teachers have a lot to share with others. Liana Heitin’s Education Week article does a good job of spelling out the biggest challenges and the solutions teachers are using to deal with them.
What Can We Learn From the Global Effort Around Mobile Learning?
Closing the achievement gap and giving all
students access to a world of learning online remains one of the
strongest allures of education technology. In the U.S., that
conversation is often centered on the newest shiny device, slickest
software or free app, but internationally mobile technology is
revolutionizing learning too, often without fancy gadgets. Recognizing
the creative learning strategies being implemented in developing
countries could help expand thinking in the U.S and inform the ongoing
discussion about how to use technology to deepen learning.
“In developing countries, mobile has leap-frogged fixed-line connectivity,” said Steve Vosloo,
a program specialist, in mobile learning at the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). “People who
were never connected before have access.”
Africa is the fastest growing mobile market and the second largest
after Asia. Vosloo says there are more mobile phone subscriptions than
people in Africa, meaning some people have more than one. Many people in
developing countries have only accessed the internet through a mobile
phone and mobile connectivity far surpasses desktop connections.
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