The Children’s Machine: How children take to technology

15 years ago

A second grader needed a place to hang out and my office was available. The conversation went somewhat like this:…

Hoover that google

15 years ago

With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…

Bash Street Pols

15 years ago

Could it be that some of the harping on 21st century skills and the need for 21st century schools is…

The Carrot and the Cattleprod

15 years ago

Many years ago I wrote an article with the title The Carrot and the Cattleprod.  It’s so long ago that…

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

15 years ago

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

Born to help

15 years ago

Turns out that we may be hard wired to co-operate and help out. And this behavior occurs in children before,…

Tradition and change

15 years ago

From the Poughkeepsie New Yorker (Over 78,000 Read-Round-the-Clock 35 Cents Weekly) December 1941 came this news item about Poughkeepsie Day…

Education Off The Rails: Standards Train Wreck

15 years ago

In Teaching in a Knowledge Society Andy Hargreaves has a cautionary tale - Education off the Rails -  about the…

When it comes to technology and change: Are you Toad, Mole, or Rat?

15 years ago

When a new technology comes along and knocks you off the old one - in this case a motor car…