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July 18, 2008

Advice from Google

Today is the last day of a 2 week graduate course I'm teaching. Right now, it's 10 minutes before the "final" presentations. The students are clicking away and consulting with each other. They are using technology and collaborating, so I feel happy!

Meanwhile, the Google blog has this to the point post today, Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning. This is a great finish to a class that started by looking at the now-classic "Shift Happens" and then a wander through The World is Flat, Everything's Miscellaneous, and Rainbows End.

Hopefully, they will all remember that while most of the tangible things I taught, they learned and we discussed will be old news by September, the core value is to continue learning and to inspire that in their students.

Thanks to Google for adding to my class!

And then keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.

Posted by Pat on July 18, 2008 9:30 AM