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Excellent Article on the “Difficulty” of Learning Math
Written by Marvin Minsky, a contributor to the One Laptop Per Child Organization. What makes Mathematics hard to learn? - OLPC via kwout
A Student’s Revealing Speech
Two weeks ago my school had a dinner for all the mentors, a celebratory affair thanking them for their hard work. Several students spoke. I asked to reprint one student's speech, as ...
Sir Ken Robinson Addresses a Group of Superintendents @ The Apple Education Leadership Summit
If you've seen Sir Ken Robinson's speech at TED, this will seem very familiar. However, this time Robinson addressed a bunch of Superintendents from around the world at Apple's ...
Open-Source Professional Development: Teachers Are Already Doing It!
I stumbled on this post this morning, which led me to a Powerpoint presentation teaching educators how to use Google Docs, EDITED BY OVER 500 people! ...
“Bronx 8th-graders boycott practice exam” (From NY Daily News)
A revealing article in the NY Daily News (who knew?) on Wednesday about 8th graders protesting "yet another" standardized test. You can read the article here. What's more interesting are the ...
“Students discover beauty through their cameras” (in Rwanda)
From Global Venture I found this article, published in Rwanda's Sunday Times from Global Venture, via Paul Allison's excellent blog, New Journalism. To know Rwanda is to know ...
Is More Money Needed in Education, or Just Better Money?
When people ask me (more and more frequently, to my chagrin) what Open-Source Education is, I have trouble answering them with a coherent answer, mainly because I don’t have an answer per ...
Why Evernote is More Than Useful
[Editor's Note: If you have no idea what Evernote is check out my previous post: Evernote Invites: First Come First Served] Evernote Has the Potential to Change the Way Teachers Manage Their ...
Recent Email to Staff (let’s see if anyone will listen)
Integrating Chatterous: Will it work? Will anyone care? Okay Staff, I have an idea. Don't delete this until you've actually heard my idea: you don't like it, that's cool. What if there was ...
The School of Everything
A new look at education that focuses on pairing students (in the most liberal sense of the word) with teachers. The School of Everything
Teaching Teachers: We Sure Can be Stubborn (Especially with Tech.)
I’m giving a presentation sometime next month on trying to switch our school to Cloud Computing (Google Docs or Zoho, where all your word-processing is done and stored online instead of on ...
Where are the Students in This Conversation?
Actually, they’re already here. They’re creating some amazing collaborative efforts, like “Students 2.0”, a collection of students writing about their experiences in the classroom, and with using technology. But the common ...
Did the Internet Help Darfur?
“In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planes. We were all looking, not imagining about bombing. Then they began the bombing. ...
The Million Phone Initiative
Droga5, an Australian Advertising firm, outlines its' plans for New York City's Million Phone Initiative, a way for using cell-phones as a learning tool in schools throughout the city. To see ...
2.1a Variable Case Study: The Curriculum is Now Open
In 2.1 I began identifying the resources each school has at their disposal. One I failed to write about is something often referred to as the “curriculum”. But what is a ...
Open Source Education: Part 2.1 (Identifying the Variables)
Open-Source Education: Why Everyone and Everything Involved with Education is Interchangeable and Expendable. Except the Students That is. Part 2.1: Identifying Resources + Variables ED: Due to the length of this section, it will be broken ...
The Horizon Report: Year 5
“The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a five-year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely ...
The Open Source Debate
The question isn't whether FOSS (free, open-source software) can make money. The question is whether FOSS can make as much money as traditional, license-based software (think Office, Adobe, etc.). Because FOSS ...
Using Crowd Control Software to Free Up the Hallways
Algorithms are already being used in countless fields to simulate crowds: whether it's the US Geological Survey, who wants to know where crowds will gather in the event of an earthquake, or ...