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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.Leonardo da Vinci
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Cool Smart Teen: Changing the conversation about building stuff
11.04.2013
Not just building an app to play with . . . but a test for cancer
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Video: What is the link between "design-thinking" and creativity?
11.03.2013
Creative Confidence: Must-Watch Interview on Charlie Rose
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How Much Do Early Years Lead to Student Success?
11.03.2013
"The idea being that wasn't necessarily to create little engineers everywhere, though that would be great for us. The idea was to take advantage of the natural learning process and curiosity that children have at that age . . ." Tamika Lang, Boeing
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NEW: Weekend Reading
11.03.2013
Looking for Intimacy in the Age of Facebook is a higher education course (yes, you heard right). Interestingly, social media may inhibit creativity and innovation
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The New Resume
10.31.2013
A picture is worth a thousand words. A video game-like format is worth . . .
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Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education
10.31.2013
"Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . "
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Noam Chomsky: In the news again, this time about Twitter and High Schoolers
10.31.2013
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT, "father of linguistics", political commentator. From bio: "Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today": ...
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Choke: Test-taking - - - a different way to look at test-prep?
10.28.2013
"Most students will not find a steady diet of test-prep drills and worksheets to be particularly meaningful, and accordingly, they will not put forth optimal learning effort."
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Does your school have a beehive?
10.27.2013
"If we want children to be inventors, we have to give them opportunities to invent." - 5:00 mark, Mission Hill video
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