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The purpose of David Moursund’s IAE Blog is to encourage and facilitate people working to improve informal and formal education at all levels and in all discipline areas. A unifying theme is that education empowers the educated and improves their quality of life. Readers are encouraged to add comments.
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Sep 17
2010

Pithy quotes can be considered as very short stories.


Posted by Dave Moursund in Higher Education

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I think of a pithy quote as a very short story. Such a short story can capture an important idea in a very few words, and such quotes tend to remain "fresh" over many years—and even over the centuries..

Sep 15
2010

A questionable approach to improving education by failing more students.


Posted by Dave Moursund in Higher Education

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One of my favorite quotes is:

Sep 13
2010

Setting unreasonable standards in student assessment.


Posted by Dave Moursund in Higher Education

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As you know, it is easy to construct a test that most students will fail. Or, for a test that already exists,  it is easy to adjust the passing mark so that many students will fail.

Sep 08
2010

Children will learn to do what they want to do.


Posted by Dave Moursund in Higher Education

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The TED videos are one of my favorite sources of information. Recently I viewed Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. This 17 minute video is available free online at http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html. Quoting from the Website: