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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

A Day in the Life of the Internet

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15 years ago

School of the Past: School of the Future

This summer I visited  the quite wonderful Hancock Shaker Village. It's where in craft and design, form meets function with…

15 years ago

Future Past Imperfect

Enjoy the drawing. But but then read this: Shifting Ground from Chris Lehmann. From the Chicago Tribune 1958. (But only…

15 years ago

That was then: Are we “betraying most of our children”?

From: We are the people movie people This landmark independent documentary … explores the education system … and asks whether…

15 years ago

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Listen to this podcast interview with Clayton Christensen – one of the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will…

15 years ago

Walkway over the Hudson – past, present and future

A great video of our local bridge – the newly opened Walkway across the Hudson.  

15 years ago

Praising the Beast

We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, so terrifying, and…

15 years ago

10 Tips for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience

Can design help children learn? That's the cover story of in the February Metropolis Magazine lent to me last week…

16 years ago

Academic Earth

A wave of the future: College lectures available online for free. Academic Earth: Free access to thousands of world class…

16 years ago

What’s next?

First  the music and the record stores closed.  And then the  books - Posman's on Broadway, Ivy's and too many…

16 years ago

When will I ever need to know this? Connecting learning to the real world

“What do I need to learn this algebra and geometry and math stuff for?” Connecting learning to the real world…

16 years ago

Human capital, stars aligned and the wise owls

On the way home tonight I heard Robert Reich on NPR’s Marketplace. The topic was Human Capital. The one sentence…

16 years ago

Fly a plane to the future

Launch your ideas into the future. This is the Million Futures site where you see a blue sky, fluffy clouds…

16 years ago

Learning in a World of Plasma

 A parent sent me a link to this clip from Ulrike Reinhard's blog and specifically her story "Intrinsic motivation…

16 years ago