Happy Monday! Good Morning, as we say good-bye to Open Ed. Week, we can happily say hello to the word of the week: creativity. Technology is being used creatively in order to further enhance the learning experience for students of all ages. From Legos for K-12, to textbook-free higher ed., to professional development for adults, […]
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What is the Good? What is a truly ethical solution to a certain problem? How does all that logic really make sense? Here are some great sources and tools that can help educators, students, or the simply curious think big. Resources Philosophy Pages (Garth Kemerling) This reference site has many great features to help you in […]
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For our next edition of our series of Saylor.org staff interviews, we spoke with Jenna Dawkins, one of our awesome Research Assistants. Hello Jenna. Hi. So why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself? Well, I’m Jenna. I’m a 22 year old GW Masters student, and am living and working in the DC Metro […]
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I recently had the opportunity to go through (a lot) of old papers and notes from elementary school, secondary school, and college. I saw years of attempting to stay organized: three-ring binders, portfolios, spiral notebooks, bound notebooks, index cards, loose papers, and the odd floppy disk. After nineteen years of schooling, I was just starting to […]
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When Jerry Maguire was forced out of his sports management agency that he helped build (it’s a fact) in a very public, humiliating way, he reminded some several dozen of his colleagues that “there is such a thing as manners; a way of treating people.” It was true then, and it’s true now: with colleagues, with clients, […]
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