The Inner Net
Connected and Disconnected
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Tom Friedman: Think Like an Immigrant
Five Ways to Succeed in Life and Work
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No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship
Every child deserves a champion - TED talk
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RIFFING GOOD STORIES
What I'm reading now: Laptop U - Has the future of college moved online?
The New Yorker has a big sprawling piece on MOOCs - a Must-Read. Read more
Whoa. Student Rants at Teacher in this Jaw-drop Video
"you want a kid to change and start doing better?" he asked. "you gotta touch his frickin' heart." Read more
Why Perry Hall is not in the National Lexicon
Afterwards he stated in a recorded call from the jail with a cousin: "You know what school I wish I went to? Sandy Hook Elementary." Read more
Am I Preparing Students for My Age or Theirs?
I can never understand how and why we expect students with far more energy, ideas, natural creativity and far more everything, to be more "contained" in their behavior than adults. Read more
Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner
Connected Learning: Communities and Collectives - Conversations with John Seely Brown (Part 2) about A New Culture of Learning PLUS videos from DML Read more
Boston: A Gollum Moment for Media? And nostalgic for Tom Friedman?
Pro-innovation-disruption-MOOC-advocate and NYTimes columnist Thomas Friedman gets nostalgic: "That's why, when the Internet first emerged and you had to connect via a modem, I used to urge that modems sold in America come with a warning label from the surgeon general, like cigarettes. It would read: "Attention: Judgment not included." Read more
Battle Of The Minds: Why Don't Kids Like School?
Sparks Fly In This Book Review By Guest Jonathan E. Martin about Daniel Willingham's Book & His Conclusions About Learning, Imagination & Knowledge Read more
The Bad Habits You Learn in School
And it's not about smoking. John Coleman via Harvard Business Review Read more
Here a MOOC, there a MOOC, everywhere a MOOC, MOOC . . .
16 Possible Effects of MOOCsThe good, the bad and the ugly Read more
Shaping Serendipity for Learning: Conversations with John Seely Brown
"Conventional wisdom holds that different people learn in different ways. Something is missing from that idea, however, so we offer a corollary: Different People, when presented with exactly the same information in exactly the same way, will learn different things. Read more
21st Century Skills: A "thorny problem" in the classroom
. . . .most high schools' science "experiments" are really "demonstrations," because they are "rigged" for the right answer, thereby disqualifying them as true experiments where outcomes are unknown. Read more
Weekend Funnies: My Teenage Son is "Going Through a Phase" Video
Gabriel Iglesias' smart teenage son doesn't talk to him anymore. 2 Minute Video via Comedy Central Read more
High Schoolers: "What You'll Wish You'd Known"
It's dangerous to design your life around getting into college Read more
The Practical University?
Musings on college: Visiting with high schoolers, David Brooks and Stanford University's new video series on MOOCs: " . . ."It's the beginning of a wholesale reorganization of teaching and learning in higher education." Read more
"The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination"
JK Rowling, Harry Potter Author, Captivates Crowd With Harvard Commencement Speech Read more
High School: Are the Kids Alright?
"Long ago my son determined exactly how not to let the institution of school get in the way of his learning, and had explicit plans for choosing courses carefully so that he had ample time to attend local university lectures and participate in arts events." Read more
How to Create Nonreaders
Why Johnnie and Jane don't like to read . . . and what to do about itAlfie Kohn Delivers a Powerful Essay About MOTIVATION & Learning Read more
To be Daringly Vulnerable
Transforming Education, Parenting and Work, PLUS the Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto Read more
The Arts: Seeing & Thinking Differently
Artless & Senseless? "Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident." -Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking Read more
Does your school have a beehive? (or have your students worked with one?)
"If we want children to be inventors, we have to give them opportunities to invent."- 5:00 mark, Mission Hill videoMaking Learning RealVideo BelowI sometime hear two questions from parents and educators about schools and learning - "Are they (students) really... Read moreNow, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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Steven Spielberg announces movie "Obama" with Daniel Day Lewis
05.03.2013
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How to Develop Students into "Problem-Finders" and why it matters
04.23.2013
Designing for Great Learning: Moving Beyond Project-Based Learning
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Would You Hire Your Own Kids? 7 Skills Schools Should Be Teaching Them
04.23.2013
Tony Wagner, Former HS teacher, Principal & Co-Director At Harvard School Of Education Posts. "The Ability To Ask The Right Questions Is The Single Most Important Skill."
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Turning on the Light
04.19.2013
Blog post from MIT student Kirsten L. - #BostonStrong #MITStrong
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Weeekend Funnies: Jon Stewart is Killing It in China
04.12.2013
Why Jon Stewart is so popular in China: "I am decadent capitalist Jon Stewart. Folks, how about this air quality, am I right? Beijing, Shanghai I've seen Confucius quotes that were clearer."
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"The Little Discussed Dark Side" of Public Education
04.02.2013
"We've completely distorted learning."
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ADHD: One in 5 high school boys diagnosed
04.01.2013
Mental Steroids to the Rescue - - - - The Real Deal, "Pseudo-ADHD" and the Money Trail
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