Jonathan Edson
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Jonathan Edson is the founder and CEO of Carmun.com, a Web 2.0 business building an academic collaboration platform for students. Prior to founding Carmun, Jonathan was a doctoral student in the Department of Celtic Literatures and Languages at Harvard University. Jonathan was also a senior executive at AOL for seven years during the first wave of consumer Internet applications. He has also worked in management consulting, where he focused on the telecommunications industry. Jonathan has a BA from Williams College and also attended Deep Springs College in California.

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Everybody Can Innovate

Posted July 25, 2007 | 10:27 AM (EST)

My last posting proposed that we should define achievement and excellence in education in a different way -- beyond the current focus the system places on "original work." To caricature my argument, I suggested that we should reward students more highly for handing in a paper they found online, so...

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Excellence in an Era Beyond Originality

Posted June 29, 2007 | 12:36 PM (EST)

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

The Internet poses a significant challenge to the focus that education has traditionally put on teaching students how to do "original" thinking....

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Curriculum 2.0: User-Driven Education

Posted June 25, 2007 | 04:56 PM (EST)

As is often the case, the debate that is taking place in Washington about how to fix education misses the coming revolution in how, what, and why children learn. While both sides of the debate are arguing over issues like "standards" and the "politicization" of content, they each seem to...

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