Quote of the moment: David Brooks, books vs. internet
Wisdom comes in keen insights: These different cultures foster different types of learning. The great essayist Joseph Epstein once distinguished between being well informed, being hip and being...
View Article“Smart” can be learned, and practiced — but probably not born
“I just can’t learn — my memory just doesn’t work.” Third time today I heard that excuse. It’s not true. A lot of what we do in education is based more on tradition than any kind of research — school...
View ArticleBanned Books Week! Are you with the banned, in 2012?
It’s almost gone, and I haven’t even posted on it yet: Happy Banned Books Week! We’re celebrating this week from September 30 to October 6 — you’ve got two more days. Can you identify each of these...
View ArticleDarrell’s corollaries of education + technology: No good work goes...
Does this 19th century engraving show the perfect learning situation? Alexander had no iPhone, no laptop; Aristotle used no PowerPoint, no grading machines, not even a chalkboard. Have we come a long...
View ArticleQuote of the moment: Neil Gaiman, on what keeps civilization from barbarism
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Found it on Facebook. Neil Gaiman: Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Looking for the citation of where Gaiman wrote that;...
View ArticleHistory of America, or art in America, or American art, or . . .
Brilliant piece from Grant Snider — history teachers, this should be a poster in your classroom, no? Art teachers? Grant Snider’s “American Art, exploring a country through its paintings” In the...
View ArticleWisdom, a checklist about students’ use of technology
Cheat Sheet: What do you want kids to do with technology? By Bill Ferriter The Tempered Radical blog.williamferriter.com @plugusin “Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome,” Bill Ferriter says....
View ArticleIf a student values education, he will overcome much
But, really: See what some students put up with, just to learn? Think you have it hard? These are children living in poverty in India, who are eager to receive an education! http://t.co/kqgEYsAqmm—...
View ArticleApril is National Poetry Month 2014 — are you ready?
If you ask me, we don’t have enough poetry in our lives. In bygone times, newspapers carried poems almost daily. Magazines carried poems in every issue, but today you find fewer poems published in...
View ArticleWisdom: How to tell your classroom technology helps
This is much an encore post from a couple of years ago. Wise man Alfie Kohn Tweeted a photo of this list by Bill Ferriter. I’d blogged about it before. It’s still solid, and most school administrators...
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