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Student Success: Genius or Perseverance?

When I read the post “To Succeed We Must Fail—A Lot” on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, it reminded me of the keynote speech that Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success, gave at NECC ’09 in June. Gladwell said that one thing many successful people have in common [...]

Is Facebook As Good As Face-to-Face?

As students begin spending more and more of their socializing time on social networking sites, it seems like they would have to spend less time actually talking face to face. In fact, it seems like they don’t even talk on the phone anymore now that they’ve discovered they can text surreptitiously during class. Add to [...]