links for 2007-10-30

A Principal Who Cracks Down on Stress – New York Times
A school in the US is making sharp progress to ensure their students aren’t so stressed out. Malaysian schools, read this!
(tags: stress school education america)

O Ambassadors | Global Home
Join Oprah and become a young ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals!
(tags: charity education mdgs world aid [...]

links for 2007-10-28

Open Text Book
Free text books!
(tags: blog book books college education learning free management online open publishing Reference Research resources school tutorials)

Bibliomania – Free Online Literature and Study Guides
More free books.
(tags: art books culture digital education free information interesting learning library literature media online reading Reference school Research study useful web work)

FullBooks.com – Thousands of Full-Text [...]

Shortlisted for the KaosPilots – off to Stockholm!

I’ve been shortlisted for Team 01 of the KaosPilots Stockholm program, which means being invited to attend a 2-day admissions workshop in Stockholm. From 380 applicants, they chose 100 (including me), and from 100 they’ll whittle it down to 35.
According to the Stockholm crew, I’m the “most antipodean” applicant – I’m flying the furthest to [...]

links for 2007-10-26

Resurgence issue 226 – CHILDREN’S CHARTER by Satish Kumar
An interesting model of a “smalll school”, with very practical-based learning.
(tags: education alternative school)

5 Alternative Career Paths – What’s Yours?

Tony Pua wrote a blog post about his 5 alternative career paths – other jobs he could have had instead of what he’s doing now. There are some fascinating answers in the comments, and it looks like it could be a good blog meme. (Though I think the ultimate winner of this would be Craig [...]

This Just Isn’t Right.

One of my very good friends is going through hell and back just so she could get a retrospective withdrawal from one of her university classes. Last semester, she suffered sexual assault, and her grades for one of her subjects went down tremendously despite studying and working her hardest. She is still trying to heal [...]

links for 2007-10-18

TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
A talk on creativity and the need to reform the education system.
(tags: academia motivation movie advertising networks art arts politics career psychology change college reform Research creativity culture resource school education environment schools society funny student future humour sustainability theory ideas innovation training university [...]

KaosPilots: Now This Is Learning

Imagine a business school where all your assignments are real-life projects from real clients. Imagine spending your second year in a different country working on community projects. Imagine your final exam being a sustainable project for change.
For the KaosPilots, this is reality.
I’ll just quote the post I made on MetaFilter about them:
The KaosPilots, deemed “the [...]