See you in Seattle?
I’m off Monday to speak at the NSBA T+L Conference in Seattle. I’m doing three presentations including: “The Best Education Ideas in the World” (brand …
Senator Biden Interviewed by a 5th Grader
..and yes, the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate is smarter than a fifth grader! (The kid is terrific too) Be sure to watch until the end!
Stop the VoiceThread! Please!
Wes Fryer spends a great deal of time and effort on his blog and in workshops touting VoiceThread as an important new educational tool. VoiceThread …
What Makes a Good Project?
Here is my latest article to be published in a forthcoming edition of The Creative Educator magazine.
The $100 Laptop in Vanity Fair & a Colombian School
Vanity Fair writer and widow of Tom Russert, Maureen Orth, wrote a charming article about a small school she built in the Colombian Andes while …
Iconoclasts
I have long been fascinated by experts, expertise and the commonalities between them. I have learned much about learning by being in the presence of …
Care to Really Understand Federal Education Policy?
In my humble opinion, Jo Boaler‘s, recent Education Week column, Where Has All the Knowledge Gone? The Movement to Keep Americans at the Bottom of …
My New Favorist Essayist Speaks the Truth About School
Over the past six months I’ve discovered the BBC television phenomena, Top Gear. I first heard about it when Jay Leno publicly criticized NBC‘s desire …
David Thornburg to present at Constructing Modern Math/Science Knowledge
Dr. David Thornburg will lead two workshops at Constructing Modern Math/Science Knowledge January 22, 2009 in Philadelphia prior to Educon 2.1. Read more and register …