technology

Timeless Learning

I like the title of this book about how to do school right: Timeless Learning. The launch date is August…

6 years ago

Construction not Instruction

There's a current craze for teaching coding in schools and computer science classes are back in fashion in a big…

7 years ago

Time to Make it Happen

I did not attend the NAIS Annual Conference this year - first time for many years - so I don't…

8 years ago

Learning and Social Media: Option, Opportunity and Obligation

If you're reading this online then you are engaged in social media. You are consuming. I've been thinking about education…

9 years ago

Out and About

We had some glorious fall days last week (as well as some much-needed rain).  It was perfect weather for the…

9 years ago

Creativity in the Classroom: The Commodore Amiga and PDS

It's the 30th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga computer.  This is apparently the machine that introduced a whole new world…

9 years ago

Three cheers for EdCamp Hudson Valley

There are lots of reasons to be concerned about the digital revolution and its impact on our lives, the lives…

10 years ago

The Future of Employment: Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; rather ask what problem they want to solve

Don't ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; rather ask what problem they want to solve.…

11 years ago

The Future of Schools: The Third Revolution and The Great Disruption

"The Great Disruption: Technology and the Future of Schools" The latest issue of Independent School magazine is out and it's…

11 years ago

Connecting the Dots: Innovation in the Knowledge Age

Connecting the Dots: Becoming a Knowledge Age Innovator Interesting 2009 short article by Deborah Westphal of Toffler Associates Key points…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

Why School? Why PDS?

We are at the beginning of a period of focused strategic thinking at school and the Board of Trustees has…

12 years ago

All this change ….

For adults like me who work in schools September means being confronted with a world of change.  There are new…

13 years ago

T.S.Eliot – the app for that

T.S.Eliot worked for Faber and now they have published an app for The Wasteland. Is this the future of English…

13 years ago