2007

GHOTI spells what?

Quick, quick! – spell “yacht” New research on spelling and the brain English spelling and pronunciation are renowned for complexity…

18 years ago

Detecting Tommyrot, Bunkum and Codswallop

When dealing with bunkum like the unsubstantiated and most unlikely claim of the 14,000 parachuted cats it would be good…

18 years ago

The Great Cat Drop: Take this Test of Critical Thinking

We are all very fond of talking about critical thinking. But what does it actually mean? In the classroom, in…

18 years ago

The Truth About the Flying Cats and the Cartons of Stout

What struck me about Operation Cat Drop – the flying cats of Borneo story – was not the unintended chain…

18 years ago

Teenagers Incompetent and Irresponsible? Let’s Abolish High School

Let's Abolish High School - it's a link to an article in Education Week (April4, 2007) by Robert Epstein. Epstein…

18 years ago

Write a Novel, Change the World: Use your Laptop as a brick

Gary Stager came to Poughkeepsie Day School at the end of March and he began with a lively Vassar College/…

18 years ago

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

Everything’s Cool

It was a great day in the James Earl Jones theater at PDS yesterday. Dan Gold - a member of…

18 years ago

Earth

Earth...a poem by the the children in the Pre- K. These are their words - the places they know, the…

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 Machine is Us/ing Us: The Machine Will Not Stop

Take a look at this fascinating video about web 2.0 from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas…

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