Category: Articles
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Disrupting Class = Chapter 5
The System For Student-Centric Learning This is a complicated chapter to read and understand. Education, like a private business, is a “commercial system”. “A commercial system is the context within which a firm establishes its cost structure and operating processes and works with suppliers and channel partners to respond profitably to customers common needs. The…
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Create Huntington Web Site Live
The folks in Huntington have really been an inspiration to watch during the past year. Numerous volunteers have rallied around over 20 specific projects to re-create Huntington for a prosperous future. From Mayor Felinton, to Dr. Stephen Kopp at Marshall, to volunteer leaders such as Phoebe Patton Randolph and Anne Durham (among many others!), the…
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Educational Attainment Rankings
The U.S. Department of Education produces a report on educational attainment by state. Here you can view in detail what % of adults 18 years and over have attained high school, two-year, four-year and graduate degrees. Changing the trajectory of a region in this critical arena of life is difficult. Most of the lower-ranking states…
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Turning Learning Right Side Up
Must be the time of year when books about innovation and education are on everybody’s summer reading list. Here is a write up about the latest from Russell L. Ackoff, Anheuser Busch Professor Emeritus of management science at The Wharton School. (I want a title like this someday, Yeungling Professor Embarrasus) http://www.changethis.com/47.02.TurningLearning From the Back…
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Under the category of who knew – another great piece of news from West Virginia’s new Creative Economy
Laurie A Helgoe, Ph.D. of Charleston is the author of five mass market books, including Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength (July 2008) and is contributing columnist for Wealth Manager Magazine. She consults and operates a design consultation service, Introvert Style. The book has been honored with a starred Publisher’s Weekly…
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Will Smaller Upstarts Fill the Broadband Gap?
Broadband coverage in West Virginia has been a source of frustration on all sides. Economic development advocates are frustrated that major providers won’t invest more aggressively to fill gaps in small towns and rural areas, effectively shutting off those communities from Internet-based opportunities in e-learning, ecommerce and online health services. Telco providers point to the…
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Turning the “LightsOn” in Oak Hill
The gang at LightsOn West Virginia have opened their LEED-certified office building in downtown Oak Hill, and it’s an exciting example of a concept that Jeff Miller and others in the sustainable development field promote: Why not leverage the “embedded energy” that exists in the hundreds of existing structures in West Virginia communities and put…
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Disrupting Class = Chapters 4
Here is the Meat of the Disruption Chapter 4 – Disruptively Deploying Computers “The disruptive transiton from teacher-delivered to software-delivered instruction is likely to proceed in two stages. We call the first of these stages computer-based learning. In this stage, the software will be proprietary and relatively expensive to develop; and it will be monolithic,…
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Appalachia Scheme Wins Buckminster Fuller Contest
From the Architectural Record: The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a new annual design competition created to honor the late architect-inventor-ecologist who would have celebrated his 113th birthday this Saturday, has a winner. John Todd, a Cape Cod-based scientist and environmental planner, has taken home the blue ribbon for his “Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World:…
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Registration Now OPEN for Create WV Conference
A special, “early bird” discount price is available for the 2008 Create West Virginia (Create WV) Conference. The special price of $229.00 will only be in effect through August 31. This year’s conference, aimed at helping communities expand and improve their economies through cultivation of the creative and high-tech industries, is set for October 20-22…