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What is the Value of a College Education?

I’ve been aware of the concept of “disintermediation” since reading Donald Tapscott’s Growing Up Digital in the mid-90s. Essentially, disintermediation refers to the elimination of the proverbial middle man in a supply chain. As Read More...

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 4:04 PM from skipvia | 3 Comments

CoSN Investigates Scandanavian Students’ Success

An interesting follow up to my Feb 29 post (What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?) showed up today from eSchool News. The article, U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia, reported on a visit to Scandinavian schools by the Consortium for School Networking Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:34 PM from iTeach - Skip Via | 0 Comments

CoSN Investigates Scandanavian Students’ Success

An interesting follow up to my Feb 29 post ( What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? ) showed up today from eSchool News . The article, U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia , reported on a visit to Scandinavian schools by the Consortium for School Networking Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:34 PM from skipvia | 0 Comments

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

That’s not my title. It’s from this article in the Wall Street Journal. Read it right now. There is much food for thought here. Not mentioned in the article is the fact that Finland is the most wired country in the world with very high bandwidth Read More...

Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:56 AM from iTeach - Skip Via | 0 Comments