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An Interview with Richard Halkett – Part 6 of 6

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Richard Halkett, Director of Strategy, Research, and Global Education for Cisco Systems, and Alan November, Senior Partner, November Learning discuss what the next steps are for educators and educational systems. Richard states: If we are talking about the emergence of a learning society, rather than just an education system, then we need to insure that [...]

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An Interview with Richard Halkett – Part 5 of 6

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

In this section, Richard Halkett, Director of Strategy, Research, and Global Education for Cisco Systems, discusses schools that are implementing a 21st Century curriculum. Richard shares the curricular changes, leadership, and assessment ideas that are being put into practice. Richard also shares with us how some of these schools are incorporating informal learning that was [...]

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An Interview with Richard Halkett – Part 4 of 6

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Richard Halkett, Director of Strategy, Research and Global Education for Cisco Systems, talks about how “technology has been over promised and under delivered” in the past. Education has used technology to automate current practices, but has failed to change the processes of education. Richard discusses what is different now and how the promise of current [...]

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Free Wolfram|Alpha Back-to-School Webinars for K–12 Educators

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

I just had the opportunity to sit in on the first of a few Wolfram Alpha webinars targeted toward educators. The session was focused on how this tool can be used in the classroom. While advanced users probably won’t get too much out of it, it’s a great overview for beginners. One part I was [...]

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An Interview with Richard Halkett – Part 3 of 6

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Welcome to part 3 of this 6 part series with Alan November and Richard Halkett. Richard is the Director of Strategy, Research, and Global Education for Cisco Systems. In the podcast, Richard discusses the power of informal learning and how schools need to harness that learning. Students spend more time learning outside of the classroom [...]

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