Books

Voice activated pencils: “The school we’d like”

A school in a giant submarine with waterproof maps of the underwater  world. Private helicopters to fly children to France…

17 years ago

A World Lit by Shooting Stars

The exhalations whizzing in the air Give so much light that I may read by them. Julius Caesar Act 2…

17 years ago

The School that I’d Like

Back in 1967 – the Observer newspaper in the UK organized an opportunity for children to write on the subject:…

17 years ago

School Choice: Hogwarts or Diffendoofer?

The best parts about the Harry Potter books are all the reminders of the traditional British school story and a…

17 years ago

Regeneration

This July marks the ninetieth anniversary of the start of third Ypres - better known as the battle of Passchendaele…

17 years ago

Nuts! A Tale of Morality and Medicine

Do you like eating nuts? You do? And so do squirrels, but even squirrels can eat too many. Tippety Nippet…

17 years ago

W is for …

This picture has a dollop of peanut butter on one edge, a smear of grape jelly on the other, and…

18 years ago

The Machine Stops

In an earlier post, I mentioned the prescient Marshall McLuhan who saw decades ago that we were living in an…

18 years ago

The Passionate Learner: Part Three

The Climate for Learning A follow-up to Passionate Learning Part 1 and Part 2 Stained Glass Dr. Robert L. Fried…

18 years ago

The Passionate Learner: Part Two

"What have you planned for professional development day?" The starting point was this question from Andrea Archer - head of…

18 years ago