MicroWorlds for Munchkins
Originally published in the September 2000 issue of Australia’s Hotsource online newsletter Since the 1960s, Logo was intended to have no threshold and no ceiling. …
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Make Your Own Wallace and Gromit with One Line of Code
Originally published in the June 2000 issue of Australia’s Hotsource online newsletter The recent success of Rick Park’s brilliant Wallace and Gromit films has inspired …
New Ways to Remember in MicroWorlds
Originally published in the October 2000 issue of Australia’s Hotsource online newsletter Most MicroWorlds users are familiar with the local and global variables built into …
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Every Kid a Publisher
Originally published in the Dec 1999 / Jan 2000 of Australia’s Hotsource online newsletter Cable television, specialty publications and the Internet have seen the rise …
Back-to-School Night: America’s Annual Torture Convention
I used to refer to Back-to-School Night at my kids’ schools as “The Night of 1,000 Columns,” because of the comical inspiration provided by each …
Word of the Day (2002)
“Word-of-the-day,” a simple idea with multiple meanings A literate citizen has command of a large and expressive vocabulary. Schools “do vocabulary” presumably in the hopes …
Who Moved my Stalag? (2003)
While on a recent flight across the South Pacific, I pondered the challenges facing American education. Somewhere high above Guam it hit me. What we …
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Are You Smarter than a Deputy Prime Minister?
Greetings from Australia! Karl Fisch’s latest blog, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?, and a horrific current event inspired me to mine the Stager …
Pointing in the Wrong Direction
The good news is that my daughter’s teachers are at last beginning to use computers. The bad news is they are using them to make …
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The Parental Veto of Curriculum (2007)
2012 Note: The New Hampshire legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and passed a law this week allowing the parental veto of curriculum. The following is …