2010

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…

14 years ago

More Educator Luddites Please

Part two of:  The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender: Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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.…

14 years ago

What the dickens?

Looks like the new UK education minister is channeling Thomas Gradgrind: Pupils must learn about Miss Havisham, says Minister They…

14 years ago

Life on the Farm

Learning about Sprout Creek Farm is a big part of the kindergarten curriculum but what exactly are they learning?  Readers…

14 years ago

“Playing games makes your child clever”

 A must read article from the Times of London. Playing Games Makes Your Child Clever  

14 years ago

Everyone is cranky

A school in May is like a two year old deprived of a nap.  That's how my colleague Liz describes…

14 years ago

Finland and Education Success

A video from BBC News about the world's latest favorite education destination: Finland

15 years ago

Digital literacy across the curriculum

It's not about the tools and the testing, it's about the learning and the thinking. Digital literacy is an important…

15 years ago

Math Curriculum Makeover: Be less helpful

Math makes sense of the world: Here's math teacher Dan Meyer speaking at the TEDxNYED conference in March.

15 years ago

The wild front ear

If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then  I have given up on that ideal.  After all…

15 years ago

“If a school fulfills its mission there must be constant evolution…”

It is quite possible that the assigning of grades to school children and college students as a kind of reward…

15 years ago

Transformation: Diane Ravitch and School Reform

“School reform today is like a freight train, and I’m out on the tracks saying, ‘You’re going the wrong way!’ ”…

15 years ago

The Ruben’s Tube: Dancing Fire

Click for an UPDATED version of this experiment and with a great new video. It’s always great when a student…

15 years ago