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If a regular 9 to 5 job isn’t working for you or you just can’t think of any great ideas, then you might need to quickly find a way to start power storming ideas. The most efficient way to do this is to create a day by day plan and follow it. Try these 5 steps to get your mind go with creative ideas to successfully make it easier to boost with new designs.
Construct phases:
Schedule in creative time every day. Just sit down for 10 minutes, and let your mind go. Alternatively, do your “thinking” on the train, or in the shower, this is a fantastic place to think. I hear a lot of people do their best thinking in the shower.
The next best time is 10 minutes before you go to sleep, as your mind is most relaxed at that time - or at least it should be.
Take notes:
We all know about the mind blowing idea jotted on a napkin, and that’s why it’s not a bad idea to always have a napkin (or an index card, or a small journal) with you no matter where you go. Letting your mind wander into creative territory can also mean that you let it wander away from your long term memory, and a forgotten stroke of genius isn’t going to do you any good three hours later when you need it.
Set your alarm a little bit early:
Just as the last minutes before you go to sleep can be creative moments, it is said that our mind is at it’s freshest and most creative in the mornings. So why not get into the habit of getting up that little bit earlier, and let your mind run wild with creative ideas.
Take a moment to ponder:
In your creative times ask yourself this very important question; “What would I do if I knew I had no financial limits, and the campaign couldn’t fail?” Then let your mind go crazy with ideas from there.
Define your USP:
As you set your imagination free, keep in the back of your mind the simple mantra of the company’s USP. This might seem limiting, but really it will help your creativity flow in a constructive direction. Without the USP, you’ll be thinking of ways to make potatoes fly, when your company is in the business of helping broccoli swim.
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Rosser: Maybe there are some good online colleges out there (not U. of Phoenix), but why is it that somehow none of them have even begun to get any cachet with regard to reputation?
Because they prefer to put money in education rather than in marketing. Sad but true.
Rosser: OTOH, the past trend of tuitions rising more rapidly than the general cost of inflation (imitating medical care) has clearly got to come to an end one way or another, and almost certainly will.
And online education won’t fix the problem. A good online program is going to be as expensive to run, and probably more expensive than a good face to face program. What you get is access and quality improvements. If you look at online education as a way to save money then quality goes down considerably.
Education is expensive but lack of education is even more expensive. Society benefits from more education so the difficulty is getting the economic wealth generated by education back to educators.
Rosser: Stop increasing the ratio of staff and administrators to faculty as seems to have been going on for some time across the board.
That’s not going to make things better. A university is this big giant bureaucracy with huge amounts of necessary paperwork flying back and forth. If you remove staff, then what happens is that professors waste their time booking travel and trying to work the photocopier (badly) rather than doing teaching. Also high level administrators are nominally faculty but they spend more of their time managing than teaching.
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The basic premise of Achieve is fundamentally Flawed.
The goal of education is not about raising some sort of average expectations or defining a meaningful high school diploma. The goal of education is individual opportunity and not closing doors.
You don’t identify those doors by doing your own analysis of workplace skills. You look at the requirements set up by colleges and universities and work backwards. College departments are experts in their fields and they spend a lot of time defining those doors (required courses). They don’t define degree expectations only by looking at average jobs in the workplace. They define required courses based on much higher standards. You can’t get an engineering degree that says you can do everything but differential equations. Colleges define the ultimate doors, and many in the education world don’t like that.
It’s a power grab. It’s a turf and philosophy grab. Beware of those who talk about P-16 education. They aren’t from colleges, unless it’s a college of education.
"Anchor Academic Standards in the Real World"
This is their mantra, and it’s not what college departments do. College departments anchor requirements on what is expected for a practitioner of their field, not on average job expectations.
"Postsecondary institutions should:
Use high school assessments for college admissions and placement. Little justification exists for maintaining completely separate standards and testing systems for high school graduation on the one hand and college admissions and placement on the other."
They obviously don’t like SAT or ACT, but they don’t want to add to the list of data that colleges use for selection, they want to replace SAT and ACT.
"Because a University of Washington study showed that the Washington state high school assessment is as good a predictor of college GPA as the SAT, postsecondary officials have agreed to use the state’s high school assessment data in scholarship, admissions and placement decisions."
Replace, not add.
But what math standard is Achieve pushing? Algebra II for all, based on a workplace analysis. This is not an individual door-based approach. This is based on an average workplace expectations. I could argue that some students will never need Algebra II, while others need much more.
Education is about individuals, not averages. Individuals are helped by looking at doors, not averages from the workplace.
What, exactly, are these doors?
Ahieve wants to look at the workplace, but the doors are already defined by the colleges and the vocational schools. The are defined by experts in their fields! Look at college catalogs.
This is anathema to many educators.
Achieve doesn’t have to do their own workplace analysis, unless they are looking at requirements for those NOT going on to vocational schools or colleges. Colleges have done the work for them. Look at the degree requirements. Achieve would be better off providing a workplace analysis that shows what degree is usually required. They could add in a statistical breakdown of which degree (or no degree) is commonly found for that job.
Maybe it already exists online, but there should be a list, broken down by college and degree program, of all course requirements. Each course should publish a syllabus listing the textbook used, the material covered, and the work expectations. If students in middle school want to be biologists, they should be able to see exactly what courses and what knowledge and skills are needed for that degree. K-12 schools will then have details to use to see where doors close for each field.
A door analysis approach would also catch the problem of the 6th grade math placement filter. If they studied the problem, schools would find that very few students ever recover from the lower tracks to meet the requirements of engineering in college. These students might eventually meet the Algebra II requirements of Achieve, but it’s unlikely that the student will ever get into a school of engineering. Achieve might be happy about Algebra II, but some individuals, who want to go into engineering, might be devastated. Achieve might be happy about Algebra II, but the student who wants to go into a vocational automotive training program after high school might never get there.
Achieve might say that they want high schools to align themselves with the needs of colleges, but they don’t follow through with the details.
In the math section, they basically say that what all students need is Algebra II.
No.
What individual students need depends on where they would like to go.
The report goes into details about what math is needed. Needed for what, exactly? For everyone?
The report defines individual math skills and then relates them to specific workplace jobs.
No.
You need to look at the degree required for that job and the college requirements to get that degree.
Machine Operator - no degree required
Licensed Nurse - They list the degrees required, but then proceed to list their own English and Math content strands. No. Look at the degree requirements.
Actuary - "Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, actuarial science, statistics or a business-related discipline, such as economics, finance or
accounting. Then they list their own English and Math content strands. No. look at the requirements for the degrees.
It goes on. For all of the jobs that require a degree, the report presumes to define the content and skills that are needed for the average job.
They ignore the college degree requirements.
It’s all quite incredible! There is a certain mindset here.
Then they talk about first year college courses, but then say nothing about overall degree programs and requirements.
"1. define in detail the English and mathematics content and skills necessary for success
in freshman, credit-bearing courses at their institutions;"
Which freshman, credit-bearing courses? They are trying to define a generic alignment of high schools with colleges, and they are looking only at lower level courses. What happens if the individual student coming to college doesn’t align with the degree program he/she wants?
It’s all quite incredible
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There are a number of online colleges that offer open admission. This site has some great information on regionally accredited online degree programs and some colleges that offer them:
I think you can search for programs and enter your level of education and they will show you schools that meet your needs for you to consider requesting more information from. Good luck!
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