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Debbie Cavalier has a good post about why Music Educators are Entrepreneurs.
Simply stated, an entrepreneur is someone who identifies a “need” or a problem, and then figures out a solution. Of course, comprehensive goals, strategies, and execution plans must be developed and implemented in order to achieve success with any entrepreneurial endeavor, but it all [...]

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After watching the webcast of the TEDPrize talks this morning, I checked out Once Upon a School, and saw this idea: Help a school develop a useful website presence.
That got me thinking. I’m not sure about America, but over here in Singapore, most schools don’t have much of a web presence. And most schools aren’t [...]

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An wiki about Obsolete Skills has recently been started, inspired by Robert Scoble. The wiki is a list of skills that used to be useful, but aren’t that useful anymore. It’s an interesting list, worth checking out.
Part of the wiki, though, is a (much shorter) list of new skills, that weren’t necessary in the past, [...]

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From Wikipedia:
“Social facilitation is the tendency for people to be aroused into better performance on simple tasks (or tasks at which they are expert or that have become autonomous) when under the eye of others, rather than while they are alone. Complex tasks (or tasks at which people are not skilled), however, are often performed [...]

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Following up on my last two posts on curiosity and mystery, I want to pose the question about schools. In schools, we are being taught information - knowledge, facts, theories, etc. But students are rarely taught to question. We’re taught to answer questions, instead of ask them.
But in today’s world, with the internet and all, [...]

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