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by aik 16y ago
Amazing. Also, I've never realized that land-mass wise Canada is larger than the US, and Russia is significantly larger than anything else.
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by aik 16y ago
Cool thanks for sharing. The one that sticks out for me and the one that's so easy to get wrong is the comment on benefits before features: > Apple puts benefits before features and technical specs. They emphasize the benefit of a te
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by aik 16y ago
The point when I realized that most things I hear are probably bs and I need to think for myself, regardless of the source. What naturally followed was the realization that there are an infinite amount of things not yet solved or understood
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by aik 16y ago
That's another interesting element of customer service: 1. Is the customer service standard high. 2. Is staff trained/have the understanding that deviation from their primary tasks is OK and good. On #2 I agree Japan sucks, but I think th
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by aik 16y ago
I'm not sure I fully agree with your Japan example. The Japanese are pretty fixed in how they do customer service (which has its negatives as well I understand), but often they do it better than any other place I've been. 2 quick examples
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by aik 16y ago
Beautiful analysis, thank you. To take your analysis one more step, I would like to break out the "I" component of your model a bit further. The "I" could comprise of "N" (inner nature/general intelligence) and "B" behavior, as I believe b
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by aik 16y ago
I don't think there is any proof that it is specifically the standardized tests that cause that minority to succeed, but rather the value parents and culture places on education. That makes all the difference.
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by aik 16y ago
Do you feel like your friends got a good education? Did they feel like they did?
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by aik 16y ago
No one said memorization of pointless random stuff is easy.
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by aik 16y ago
Would you mind explaining why it affected you so? What exactly are you thinking about? Are you trying to solve the issues it discusses? I haven't seen it yet so I can't comment much (though I watched the NBC specials and have read quite
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by aik 16y ago
That's a great idea. I just discovered an innovative little app from Domino's Pizza here in Sydney: Firstly I was able to order the entire pizza online in a very intuitive interface (with a few issues), and then pay for it online. Once pa
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by aik 16y ago
I believe that there are ways around this. In the ideal world, such a focus on teacher evaluation wouldn't be necessary. One example: In Finland, from the beginning teachers receive maximum education themselves and so administrators trust
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by aik 16y ago
I agree that some of the movements are positive, and I agree that there are HUGE opportunities within education that hackers can solve. On the first point, I think we are moving into the right direction, but we have a long way to go. With
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by aik 16y ago
It's amazing to see all the action that is taking place all of a sudden, largely sparked by a sensationalist documentary and a Department of Education contest (Race to the Top). I'm very curious to see what will come out of it. A lot of ha
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How to fix our schools: A manifesto by education leaders(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by aik 16y ago|10 comments
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by aik 16y ago
"People own and have control over all info they put into Facebook and “Download Your Information” enables people to take stuff with them" I don't find that very true. I don't think one has control unless one personally hosts the data. You
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by aik 16y ago
It's a common argument - either you work for money or you work because you love the work itself. Besides what should be common sense, there have been plenty of studies denoting that working simply for money does not bring happiness (assumi
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by aik 16y ago
I'm confused. What do you disagree with?
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by aik 16y ago
In what way are you planning on distinguishing yourself from the rest of the learning platforms? What type of learning will your platform be geared towards?
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by aik 16y ago
I do agree though the author is a bit naive sounding. "By failure we mean the inability to properly educate our children equally and fairly." I don't agree completely with this. By failure we mean the inability to properly educate our chil
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by aik 16y ago
My understanding is that Quebec has a system not unlike what you describe with the extra 2 years. About your point of going back to pursue advanced studies - the problem there is that most people end up not going back once they've stopped,
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by aik 16y ago
I agree with you mostly. On point 1: I don't think there is much that is more important than personalized time. I don't think 2 minutes of 1-on-1 time a day is ideal, though it's 100x better than what we have now. Something better may be
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by aik 16y ago
I think it's great. I use it to pin common folders I visit, as well as notepad, word, and excel documents. It gets me what I want quickly.
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by aik 16y ago
I'm getting the same thing in Chrome. This way anyway it seems harder to read than the original.
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by aik 16y ago
Here's a much-less-sensationalist description (from symantec.com): Stuxnet infects Windows systems in its search for industrial control systems, often generically (but incorrectly) known as SCADA systems. Industrial control systems consist
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by aik 16y ago
How is it that the virus is like a "military-grade guided cyber missile" yet it is transferred by "memory stick"?
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by aik 16y ago
"Memory stick" is generally synonymous with "flash drive" or "usb stick" or "thumb drive"...
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by aik 16y ago
*parents _don't_ have access
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by aik 16y ago
I don't think the main problem is that parents have access to what's going on in the classroom, I think it's that a lot of parents don't care or know what to care about. They're too busy working or doing other things.
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by aik 16y ago
What's your e-mail? What type of school are you thinking? What motivation do you have? Purpose? Vision?...

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