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A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.
BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…
The Perils of Education
What is more discouraging in history than the way in which, again and again, the human spirit is freed from…
The IBM Selectric Typewriter and Kenyon House: “You must have been drunk!”
Cross-posted from Josie's Blog Did you know that Poughkeepsie Day School now has a Fab Lab? It's short for fabrication…
Beneath the Surface: The Hokey-Pokey and Jump Jim Joe
Most Wednesday mornings the lower school assembles in the Chapman Room and parents are welcome. It’s usually a showcase for…
Learning to Live (then going home for tea)
"So the children of a democracy learn to take their place in the world of tomorrow." The British Council has…
A Modern Village School: Christmas 1944
Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From…
The Price
Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…
Connections: How good ideas happen to good minds
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…
More Educator Luddites Please
Part two of: The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender: Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction…
The wild front ear
If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then I have given up on that ideal. After all…
The Extra Mile
The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…
Hoover that google
With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…
Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing
On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…
Tradition and change
From the Poughkeepsie New Yorker (Over 78,000 Read-Round-the-Clock 35 Cents Weekly) December 1941 came this news item about Poughkeepsie Day…
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…