Category Archives: Learning Efficiency

Aaron Patzer Tells a Gen Y View of Competition

Jessica Stillman reports that at age 25, Araron Patzer sold his start-up business mint.com for $170 million to Intuit. He shares his views about how Gen Y entrepreneurs face competition from established decision makers: I wanted a personal-finance tool for … Continue reading

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5 Life-Improving Technologies

Did you read Layne’s post about 5 Life-Improving Technologies? I found it worthwhile, because I haven’t thought of Tablets, iPhones, printers, etc. as “improving” my life. I still hold a mental image of how a new Bendix front load tumble … Continue reading

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Learning with Tablet PCs – A Glossary 2.0.1

Preface This glossary includes descriptions that address the question, “What do people do to learn?” It gives priority to describing behavior patterns of people as they learn, sometimes with Tablet and other mobile PCs in and out of schools. These … Continue reading

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Glossary – Learning with Tablet PCs 2.0

This glossary gives priority to terms that describe behavior of people as they learn, including with Tablet and other mobile PCs. It updates earlier glossary notes. It increases the number of terms and refines definitions, expecially those related to NESI … Continue reading

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aLEAP and Monetized Learning

State minimum academic performance standards provide a useful step toward monetizing learning. Teachers have opposed these two indices of public school learning. I have opposed them also, partly because they limit convenient instructional work-arounds. Yet, we all know that we … Continue reading

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Lifting Rationed Learning by 2020

Education Sector ran a 2-day chat about the expansion of “school choice” to public support of computer based individualized K12 student learning choices in and out of schools. The experts in the chat think this expansion will dominate public schools … Continue reading

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AI based Behavioral Analytics Surveillance

BRS Labs announced a video-surveillance technology called Behavioral Analytics™, which leverages cognitive reasoning, and processes visual data on a level similar to the human brain. It uses a cognitive learning engine, computer vision, and proprietary analytics to monitor security venues. … Continue reading

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Teachers’ Conflicts of Interest Ration Learning: NESI Conversation 11

This 11th conversation with Dr. W.E. Doynit describes how teacher choices can result in conflicts of interest and other “schoolhouse corruption” that reduce student learning. It details use of the learning code as part of academic performance management with and … Continue reading

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Adverb Enemy of Verb

“The adverb is the enemy of the verb. If you need one, you chose the wrong verb. You put ‘slowly’ after ‘walked’ when you should have said ‘trudged’ or strolled’ or ‘ambled.’” Every word must be a necessary element in … Continue reading

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School Test Scores Count to Beat Rationed Opportunity

Post secondary education rations opportunity (presumably including the top 10 percent of income earners), suggests Anthony Carnevale of the Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University. He uses data from the National Education Longitudinal Study. Carnevale reports that 82 … Continue reading

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