Education
A Path to Success: Talents. Challenges. Problems
A PATH TO COLLEGE, CAREER AND CIVIC SUCCESS Talents, when revealed, need to be celebrated. Challenges, when discovered, need to…
Connections: How good ideas happen to good minds
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…
Susan Engel on testing tests
From the NYTimes Scientifically tested tests ...there are few indications that the multiple-choice format of a typical test, in which…
“Children will learn to do…
...what children want to learn to do." Take a look at this from Sugata Mitra. There are some really important lessons…
PDS faculty take The Marshmallow Challenge
The PDS faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard…
The Shift in New Brunswick
This video was produced by the New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Education. It reflects their thinking about our rapidly changing…
More Educator Luddites Please
Part two of: The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender: Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction…
The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender
When everything around is changing so rapidly that it feels like living inside a blender on high speed, habits and…
Help is available: Advice for new teachers
Advice (random and very incomplete) for new teachers: Please round out the list with your thoughts: Sign on to Twitter.…
What the dickens?
Looks like the new UK education minister is channeling Thomas Gradgrind: Pupils must learn about Miss Havisham, says Minister They…