2007

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

“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

People, Planet, Purpose

"It is easier to change the course of history than to change a history course". "Proposals for change in schools…

18 years ago

Does Science Matter?

Educators are fond of commenting that children are natural scientists. Children, they say, are born investigators. Discovery, speculation, questioning, trying…

18 years ago

Press Interview

In a recent interview with the PDS media I was asked for my opinion of some of the pressing issues…

18 years ago

NCLB: Another Perspective

Last night in his State of the Union address President Bush outlined proposals to extend the NCLB (“No Child Left…

18 years ago

Thesis papers, exams, end of semester reports

It's the end of semester - a time for thesis papers, exams, tests, reports and etc. The demands on high…

18 years ago

The Paradox of Hedonism

The impulse toward pleasure can be self-defeating. We fail to attain pleasures if we deliberately seek them. This is the…

18 years ago

Colleges still on break

Colleges are still on winter break. Nathan, Luke and Matt dropped by to say hello.

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

The Welsh have a word for it: Dysgeidliaeth

The Welsh have one word for it: dysgeidliaeth. It means teaching and it means learning. And of course that is…

18 years ago