Tada. Our very first placed advertisement will appear, in print, in one of our favorite parenting publications this winter – Brain, Child Magazine. In fact, a version of the ad is already live on their site. We’re super excited. We must be real, right, if we’re advertising? ;) By the way, if you don’t yet [...]
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[video] Isaac Asimov on the Internet & Education
This is totally captivating. Way back in 1988, Asimov saw the potential of the Internet to transform education – personalize it, improve the quality of it, engage us as learners in a 1:1 way… “People think of education as something that they finish.” Asimov saw the Internet as changing that. It seems the world is [...]
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Growing Child: What might your mom tell you if you asked?
Some suggestions from Ms. Gestwicki and her “Gaggle of Grandmas” we’ve adopted, some are new, all bear repeating and re-posting ;) A gaggle of grandmas By Carol Gestwicki What do you get when you have a gaggle of grandmas? A lot of thoughtful advice, that’s what. I recently asked several of my friends what insights [...]
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Further thoughts on Jeff Bezos vs State of CA
On thinking about this a bit more after all the awesome points raised in the blog comments and on Hacker News… it occurs to me that as a consumer – I buy an item from my house, it arrives at my house – to me, the point of sale is my house. It doesn’t matter [...]
Amazon, how could you dump us? An open letter to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff, My husband and co-founder Steve and I have been long-time fans & customers of Amazon. I love what your company brought to online retail, and I love what you’ve brought to our home in particular – books, children’s toys, electronic devices, the kindle, streaming movies, the Amazon Visa card. For awhile you were [...]
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the flexitarians
I came across this story on the blog of a good college friend. I read it, left it, and found it wouldn’t let me go; it spoke so elegantly to my own experience with parenting. With permission of the author, I’m reposting here. Enjoy! – andrea THE FLEXITARIANS by Caroline Cummins During my freshman year [...]
Finally!
We’ve finally freakinlutely unveiled our redesigned website. The graphics have changed (a lot), the functionality largely hasn’t. Go on, check it out. Let us know what you think. Some things that might trip you up a bit at first: there’s no more static homepage describing the mission of the site, we’re just dropping you straight [...]
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[video] Revolutionizing Education?
“First time I smiled doing a derivative” – a comment on one of Khan Academy’s videos on YouTube Salman Khan speaks at the TED conference and talks about much more than a few educational videos. He calls for teachers to consider “flipping the traditional classroom” — give students video lectures to watch at their own [...]
[preso] Flip the Curve: Getting better student outcomes with less $
As my son approaches kindergarten I’ve been doing my best to make sense of the various school options in our area. And, because I’m anal to the 10th degree, this involves touring whatever we can, accosting neighboring parents and friends spontaneously and sporadically for info, and trying to get past the (middlin’) test score valuation [...]
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How do you handle your anger?
HANDLING ANGER This is a tough one for me, personally, sort of an ongoing question. Some interesting suggestions came just now in my almost-four-year-olds’ Growing Child newsletter. How do you handle your anger? Everyone is born with the capacity to feel anger. Our culture may try to tell us that nice people don’t display their [...]
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