RattleBag and Rhubarb

“We wish all children could be glad and safe.”

“War is not here” “No sirens are warning us of air raids” and the last line “We wish all children…

15 years ago

Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere

A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…

15 years ago

You Want To Change Behavior? Make It Fun

Education is all about change. And fun makes it so much more effective. Here's a great example from Stockholm -…

15 years ago

That was then: Are we “betraying most of our children”?

From: We are the people movie people This landmark independent documentary … explores the education system … and asks whether…

15 years ago

The new literacy ladder. What rung are you on?

The world is moving at a tremendous rate. Going no one knows where. We must prepare our children, not for…

15 years ago

With the Guns

With school closed for the day there was time for a walk. Buttercup Farm Sanctuary off Route 82 just north…

15 years ago

Objects of desire

Objectified - a film about the creative process of influential product designers – those people who create the “must have”…

15 years ago

“I deserve it, you don’t”: Marshmallows and crime

Deferred gratification – that ability to work for something now at the expense of immediate reward in order to receive…

15 years ago

Seven Suggestions for Messy Times

This morning’s presenter at NYSAIS – Mark Hurst – author of Bit Literacy And here they are: the techniques to…

15 years ago

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Listen to this podcast interview with Clayton Christensen – one of the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will…

15 years ago