Archive for March, 2010
Live Blog SXSW: Universities in the “Free” Era
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Very strong 101 lecture on new models for universities. I will post the video later (2 hours left on upload). Major problems with current universities: Change happens 1 death at a time TENURE is broken: 6 years = tenure and then there is little to no incentive to keep learning imparting sacred knowledge gate keepers [...]
Girls, Chess & Opportunity
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Today I was told that the second chess class I will be teaching at Perkins has only two girls signed up, my daughter and promissing classmate of her’s in a chess class of 10 to 12 students . The first session was similar this Fall with a 4 to 1 ratio of boys to girls. [...]
Student …. :Google Search Type Ahead = 70% Debt
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010the screen shot says it all: Top student searches top 10 include Loan, loan consolidation, loan forgiveness, credit cards, loans with cosigner, studentloan.com, loan calculator… Only thing missing from the list is Usury.