Education

Snail, Slug, Sloth or Tortoise

Does this Jerry King cartoon from FNO strike a chord? It's easy to say "less is more" but not always…

18 years ago

Monolingualism can be cured

El externado de Poughkeepsie desarrolla a ciudadanos educados con una pasión para aprender y vivir. Nuestra comunidad exige integridad, responsabilidad…

18 years ago

What’s Next?

What's next for computers? Here's a demonstration of a multi-touch interface. Pretty amazing.Imagine the classroom or the workplace where everyone…

18 years ago

Gary Stager at PDS

Gary Stager with PDS faculty March 30th Here's a story that Gary related at Vassar on Thursday. It's about his…

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 Age of Industry

The Age of Industry - that is what Mary Ellen calls kindergarten and this industry was certainly on display in…

18 years ago

What’s the matter with kids today?*

Why can't they be like we were? Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?* BYE BYE BIRDIE…

18 years ago

The Joy of Learning and the Expensive English Toy

The Indian National Curriculum Framework opens with this most telling childhood anecdote from the poet Rabindranath Tagore: When I was…

18 years ago

Spring

Last weekend we lost an hour and gained the Spring. This particular  Spring is by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish…

18 years ago

“We are always living ahead of our thinking”

It was University of Toronto English professor Marshall McLuhan who predicted universal connectivity. Listen to this archival interview from April…

18 years ago