Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able
Wired magazine calls him “the explainer.” Michael Wesch is a social anthropologist who teaches at Kansas State University. In his 15-minute TED talk, he explains the effects of media (social and...
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Top 50 Continuing Education Blogs
A Thank You to StudentLoans.net for including Educated Nation in their Top 50 Continuing Education Blogs. I’m in the section that includes Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education, which...
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100 Awesome Business Blogs
ConstructionManagementDegree.org has a list of 100 Awesome Business Blogs That Are Better Than an MBA. It’s like a goldmine of information for MBA do-it-yourselfers. The list is broken down into the...
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Maybe It’s Better Not to Know What Kids Think
It’s cringe-y and funny and it just upset me and made me laugh until I snurfed green tea out my nose. I think you should read it too. Chag Holland is Cynical Dad and he is capable of making your day...
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Year One: A College Blog
The transition from being a kick-ass high school senior to a floundering, inept college freshman is no fun for anyone. Year One: A College Blog is a simple weekly blog by an anonymous college...
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Fashion Nerdery In Academia
Fashion is intellectual, too, you know. I read Worn Through: Apparel From an Academic Perspective because the writers are always so amped about everything all the time. And because the subject is so...
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There’s Always Money In the Banana Stand*
Sometimes, in the midst of the slammed life of a college student who has too much input heaving around in her head, I trip over the weird way a particular word is spelled or the wondering why that...
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Perhaps my refusal to be Twitter-pated is the root of my surgical ineptitude. Or maybe it’s just because I’ve never been drawn toward careers that require an education involving several years of sleep...
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Literally
It is sometimes useful to be able to prove that you’re not the only one who is fixated on the constant misuse of some word or another. In my case, the word is literally. The evidence I gathered to...
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Math Is Hard!
Not really. I adore math and all its perfect logic. I’ve ranted before about math and smart girls and the general idea that being capable of doing something well has nothing to do with gender, race,...
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