Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss their personal learnings and articles of the week.
Articles of the Week
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If sharing and teamwork is the goal, then structural considerations are a major consideration. does the environment encourage or discourage collaboration?
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All Washed Up! – YouTube youtube.comHow do you motivate people to change? Is there a magical method proven to work on everyone?
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Why a New Jersey school district decided giving laptops to students is a terrible idea – The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.orgnside Hoboken’s combined junior-senior high school is a storage closet. Behind the locked door, mothballed laptop computers are strewn among brown cardboard boxes. Others are stacked one atop another amid other computer detritus. Dozens more are stored on mobile computer carts, many of them on their last legs. That’s all that remains from a failed experiment to assign every student a laptop in this northern New Jersey suburb of New York City. It began five years ago with an unexpected windfall of stimulus money from Washington, D.C., and good intentions to help the districts’ students, the majority of whom are under or near the poverty line, keep up with their wealthier peers. But Hoboken faced problem after problem and is abandoning the laptops entirely this summer.
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