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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[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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Gaming as Learning: Keeping children plugged in at school
We know – and I don’t think anyone disputes at this point – that preschool age children learn through play. Playing – exploring, discovering, manipulating – is their work. But what about middle schoolers? Can gaming be a mechanism for “systems learning” at school? What do you think?
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Have you seen Waiting for Superman? Wanna talk about it?
Join with other parents and interested parties to talk about David Guggenheim’s provocative new documentary Waiting For Superman that brings forth many issues on education reform. It’s a movie parents and educators across the nation are discussing in small groups. We welcome you to be part of the conversation in this informal meeting. Refreshments provided. [...]
Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert gave the following talk at the RSA (Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). [Thanks, Simon, for this tip!] Are we trying to meet the future by doing what we did in the past? Could ADHD be (in-part) a byproduct of our (boring, “production line”) education [...]
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Wendy Mogel @ Stanford
Wendy Mogel, brilliant author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children and recently The Blessing of a B Minus, is coming to speak at Stanford in a week (on October 14th, to be exact) as part of Stanford’s annual Challenge Success conference. The purpose of Mogel’s visit is [...]
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KQED Forum panel on “Waiting for Superman”
You’re invited to join us at a showing of “Waiting for Superman” next Tuesday 10/12 in Palo Alto! — Late last week, KQED’s Forum held a fantastic panel to discuss the upcoming film “Waiting for Superman“, its depiction of our public schools, and it’s recommendations. Obama, Oprah, Bill Gates have praised the film. TIME Magazine [...]
Why our schools suck: Waiting for Superman movie
Provocative new documentary distills a few very-wrong, very-fixable things about our school system: 1) pay great teachers well, 2) fire bad ones, 3) don’t settle for less. For more about this upcoming documentary, “Waiting for Superman“, see Sarah Lacy’s (no relation) post on TechCrunch. The movie is opening in selected cities this week. (We’ll be [...]
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