Let’s Abolish High School (rethinking adolescent education)

Our educational institutions today are cursed by at least four fatal legacies of the Industrial Revolution—ideas that may have been helpful a century ago but have no place in today’s world. In today’s fast-paced world, education needs to be spread out over a lifetime…

First, although cars can be assembled on demand, it’s absurd to teach people when they’re not ready to learn. As the brilliant German educator Kurt Hahn (the founder of Outward Bound) said, teaching people who are aren’t ready is like “pouring and pouring into a jug and never looking to see whether the lid is off.”

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Second, although mass education was exciting in the era that invented mass production, it does a great disservice to the vast majority of students. People have radically different learning styles and abilities, and effective learning—learning that benefits all students—is necessarily individualized and self-paced. This is the elephant in the classroom from which no teacher can hide.

Third, although it’s efficient to cram all apparently essential knowledge into the first two decades of life, the main thing we teach most students with this approach is to hate school. In today’s fast-paced world, education needs to be spread out over a lifetime, and the main thing we need to teach our young people is to love the process of learning.

Finally, whereas [the] first compulsory-education law in Massachusetts was competency-based, the system that grew in its wake requires all young people to attend school, no matter what they know. Even worse, the system provides no incentives for students to master material quickly, and few or no meaningful options for young people who do leave school. голова болит секс

iPhone internet tethering for dummies

Tethering an iPhone to your OS X based laptop is a trivial, 5 minute task. Nevertheless, most of the instructions you’ll find skip over a few small but critical details. Here’s the play-by-play:

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0. Make sure you have iPhone OS 3.0 installed.

1. Using Safari on your iPhone, visit http://help.benm.at/help.php

2. Click on ‘Mobile Configs’ and navigate to your appropriate country and carrier (United States > AT&T). Download this file.

3. Reboot your iPhone.

4. Open the ‘Settings’ app on your iPhone and navigate to General>Network. Turn ‘Internet Tethering’ On.

You can now share your iPhone’s internet connection with other devices using either a USB connection or Bluetooth. Any questions? Fire away in the comments.

Is this legal? Will your carriers mess with you? Another blog post for another person.

UPDATE: Many users (myself included) lost visual voicemail functionality as a result of the tethering hack. I found a solution on this blog post that has restored VVM and allows you to continue tethering. Please let me know if this is confusing in the comments and I’ll be happy to expand.

Ditching Cable TV: Webtv as a solution

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Image by Chris Tengi via Flickr

Comcast Digital Cable ghosts of mars online , what have you done for me lately? From the poor UX to the decreasing utility of live TV, Claire and I got rid of the box, increased our bandwidth, and moved to the world of webtv. Now powered by a Mac Mini, our value per unit of tv time has gone way up.

TV on the Web

TED Talks – TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference with the mission of discussing “ideas worth spreading.” These talks are some of the most informative, concise expressions of thinking anywhere on the web.

VBS.tv - VBS is an online broadcast network with Academy Award-nominated director Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) as their creative director. Check out Illegal LA , a docu on illegal (more…)

Creativity: undervalued in education

Brilliant talk. Sir Ken Robinson shares a vision of human potential that is far richer than what our current education system credits us for.

excerpts:

if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

we are now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of creativity, or rather we get educated out of it.

Shakespere was a child at some point… he was in somebody’s English class

our education system has mined our minds the way we strip mine the earth, for a particular commodity, and it won’t serve us.

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