Utecht’s Daily Links 10/26/2007

it’s inspired me to blog about what students should learn in order to prepare for the real world after graduation. This is an opportune time to broach this subject because the school year is about to begin, and careers can still be affected.

First, take this little test about the state of your understanding of the real world right after you graduated from school.

Project-based learning is the easiest thing in the world to talk about because it’s almost a guarentee that no one will disagree with you. Everyone will nod their head and agree that it’s a good thing… but — and Wiggins and McTigue write about this as well, by the way — true project-based learning is an inversion of our traditional classrooms in powerful ways.

Free online music used to be like the Wild West of the Internet with services like Napster dominating the field during the bubble. Now, as the Internet has matured, new models for distributing music are coming together.

But who’s going to pay for all this free, legal music? A common answer to this pesky question is advertising, but some justify it as a marketing cost and some are still silent on how exactly they’ll make this “new” business model work.

But the important part is that you can take advantage of their generosity right now by downloading or listening to as much music as you can handle.

The Complete(?) Guide to Free Online Music

A few weeks ago Chris Brogan published a list of the 100 blog topics that he wished people would cover. One of them was, “How Twitter Improved My Blog,” and I accepted the challenge to write something along these lines. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with Twitter, you can read “The Tao of Twitter,” “Newbies Guide to Twitter,” or “Ode to Twitter.”) Here is my answer to Chris’s request.