Posts Tagged ‘education’

Your Individual Development Plan

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

This question is one of the lynchpins of the personal development field. It’s usually followed by instructions to visualize yourself having achieved those goals, and maybe an admonishment to ask yourself if what you’re doing now will get you there.

None of this is hard. What is hard, though, is making a plan that will get you there… » Continue

April 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, growth, improvement, learning, personal_development | 15 comments»

34 Tips for Your Younger Self

In January, we asked you what advice you’d give your younger self as part of our regular We Ask, You Answer feature.

There was plenty of great advice—and a lot of catharsis, it seemed—and we’ve collected some of the best tips for you here.

1. Don’t worry about the future.

2. Follow your passion, even if it does not pay very well. If you are good at what you do and love… » Continue

April 2 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: advice, education, Money, relationships, retrospect, youth | 23 comments»

What Can We Learn From Children?

A lot! Although most of the time they seem like little devils, children are true angels that teach us a lot about how we can better our life. Yes, most of the time they don’t have a clue as to what they are doing, but unknowingly and without a clue they allow us to explore things that we tend to forget as we grow into adulthood.

There is a reason… » Continue

January 25 2008 | By Ritu | Tagged: children, education, learning, perspective | 10 comments»

How to Read a Painting

Art is a great status symbol in modern society and because of that it can be quite intimidating to the casual viewer. For many the first impulse is to blow it off, to see it as a worthless plaything for the rich and boring. This is too bad, not only because art can be a great source of pleasure in our lives, but because even a passing… » Continue

October 5 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: art, education, learning, painting | 41 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Read Like a Scholar

Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading.Most the time in school what you need to do is very simple:

Sit down with the book, a pen and paper, and perhaps a computer… And from that point, you read. That’s it. You go through and read… » Continue

September 21 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, college, education, reading, student, studying, university | 20 comments»

How to Choose a Private High School

7 Key Questions to Answer
My brother’s son is in fifth grade and is starting to think about which high school is “right” for their family. In today’s private school market, the process of choosing the school that fits your family’s needs and style is nothing short of an art-form. Fortunately, this medium can be learned by just about anyone.

What’s your motivation for a private school education?… » Continue

August 14 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: children, education, life, school, study | 7 comments»

Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Writing

Writing well is easily one of the most sought-after and useful skills in the business world. Ironically, it is one of the rarest and most undervalued skills among students, and few professors have the time, resources, or skills to teach writing skills effectively. What follows are a handful of tips and general principles to help you develop your writing skills, which will not only improve your grades… » Continue

July 27 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, education, howto, student, writing | 27 comments»

How To Automatically Read A Book Per Week Without Taking Any Additional Time Out Of Your Day

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a whole stack of books sitting around that you’re really going to read some day. Yeah right!

Sure, it would be nice to get some more reading done, but let’s face it: there is usually something more urgent that needs to get done. And when you have to do all the urgent things, there isn’t much time left over for… » Continue

July 19 2007 | By Brian | Tagged: audio, book, brain, education, learn, leverage, listen, reading | 27 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock!

No assignment save the comprehensive final exam seems to engender such fear in students as the research paper, especially the open topic research paper. Faced with the prospect of writing 5, 8, 12, or more pages on a topic of their choosing, a lot of students panic, unsure what to write about and how to research it. Far too often, students endanger their grades and even their… » Continue

July 18 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, howto, learning, research, researchpaper, students, writing | 78 comments»

Learn Something New Every Day

Most of us have one or two areas of knowledge that we strive to know very well — things related to our jobs, of course, and maybe a hobby or two. But while it’s important to develop a deep understanding of the things that matter most to us, it is just as important to develop a broad understanding of the world in general.

A lot of unfortunate… » Continue

July 16 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, knowledge, learning, mind, thinking | 23 comments»

14 Resources That Are Not Wikipedia

If your’re researching on the web, check out these site and apps put together by the Online Education Database. It’s a great list when you know you can’t use Wikipedia. As good as it is, no university will trust it. Add to this list Footnote.com and we’re in business.

Artcyclopedia - If you’re looking for information on artists or art movements, Artcyclopedia is a great place to begin. The site… » Continue

June 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: education, reference, research | 3 comments»

What’s Your Intelligence Type?

About twenty-five years ago, Dr. Howard Gardner came up with a new theory about intelligence. He proposed that people were much more complex than what could be revealed in an IQ test or any other standardized testing model. He argued that different people have different strengths (i.e. intelligence types).

Before this time, it was generally believed that intelligence was a single entity that was inherited. Today, most researchers believe the… » Continue

May 30 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: education, intelligence, learning | 22 comments»

How To Study

The brain is a tangled web of information. We don’t remember single facts, but instead we interlink everything by association. Anytime we experience a new event, our brains tie the sights, smells, sounds and our own impressions together into a new relationship.

Our brain remembers things by repetition, association, visual imagery, and all five senses. By knowing a bit about how the brain works, we can become better learners, absorbing… » Continue

May 14 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: brain, education, knowledge, learning, Lifehack, memory, mind, studying, tips | 21 comments»

Why Boys are Behind at School

Studies by Dimetri Christakis at the Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle have determined that the brain need touch, hearing, seeing, smelling, and tasting stimulus to grow fully.

Now consider the following facts about the youth of today.

The average child spends 900 hours a year in school and 1,023 hours a year watching television.

In the average home, the TV is on 6.7 hours per day.

By the time a boy

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September 7 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: education, learning | 13 comments»

Empower Students with mynoteIT.com

I had a chance recently to review mynoteIT, which comes off as a kind of Backpack for students. But what’s great about it (and where I think Alex and Justin Weidmann have hit a home run with this product) is that they’ve specialized the program. It’s truly built for students. Listen to some of these features: