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Choose: Education OR Fun. Apparently, you can’t have both.
I’ve talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at … Continue reading
» Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com
» Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com. I shared this on FB the other day and got some responses I had to think about for a while. First, here’s the summary of the list: Force them … Continue reading
Interesting Take on Gender Stereotyping in Comic Characters
The Avengers: Strike a Pose! Here we have the original ad pic for the new Captain America film (note the position of the Black Widow) followed by how it might look if all the superheros were made to pose like us … Continue reading
Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
Interesting…. Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat
The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat. http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/apple-textbook-dark-side One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even though the love for Apple is strong … Continue reading
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Learning Outside the Box: Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet
Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet. It looks great. This isn’t a new concept though – Canada (and I’m sure other places too) experimented with “Open Concept” schools in the late 60′s. The design of the school in the … Continue reading
SOPA Supporters
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1433222/sopa-and-pipa-so-far Here is Slashdot’s update. It contains a link to a GoogleDoc that lists the companies that support SOPA (far as we know). It is interesting what kinds of companies are on this list – many of them sell high-end … Continue reading
Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn’t news. I’ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to … Continue reading
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