Posts Tagged as ‘education’

November 26, 2008

Quest University Canada

Is this the way forward for our universities.
Quest University Canada
Quest University Canada is…
An innovative, secular, not-for-profit, liberal arts and science university located in a spectacular location – Squamish, British Columbia.

November 21, 2008

How Not to Talk to Your Kids

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — New York Magazine
For the past ten years, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia (she’s now at Stanford) studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York schools. Her seminal work—a series of experiments on 400 fifth-graders—paints the picture most clearly.
Dweck sent [...]

February 1, 2008

Learner Centered Project

Notes on the Learner Centered Project:
In May 2003 the 25 students, of the Masters Class at IT Delhi, and I stood around the 1929 Austin 7 and everyone was grinning – we had done it, the grin said. In January when we started there were two facts – a course in technology that needed to [...]