In an earlier post, I mentioned the prescient Marshall McLuhan who saw decades ago that we were living in an…
Take a look at this fascinating video about web 2.0 from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas…
The Age of Industry - that is what Mary Ellen calls kindergarten and this industry was certainly on display in…
Why can't they be like we were? Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?* BYE BYE BIRDIE…
The Indian National Curriculum Framework opens with this most telling childhood anecdote from the poet Rabindranath Tagore: When I was…
Last weekend we lost an hour and gained the Spring. This particular Spring is by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish…
It was University of Toronto English professor Marshall McLuhan who predicted universal connectivity. Listen to this archival interview from April…
"It is easier to change the course of history than to change a history course". "Proposals for change in schools…
Educators are fond of commenting that children are natural scientists. Children, they say, are born investigators. Discovery, speculation, questioning, trying…
In a recent interview with the PDS media I was asked for my opinion of some of the pressing issues…