This post is a home for my notes and video links for a class I am co-teaching/assisting with today at AFE in Santa Cruz. The class is Art of Invention for kids in the age range of 8 to 11 (3rd to 5th grade), and last week was the first part of the electronics section. [...]
Just wanted to highlight this interesting article, talking about an English professor at Oklahoma City University who has Lou Gehrig’s disease. She teaches her class via video conference, and of necessity has learned a new approach of listening and letting students lead the discussion:
Taught by a Terrible Disease
This interested me for several reasons.
We are all [...]
Chris Dawson, I understand you are concerned about your school system being sued by the RIAA in your post, “Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!” But spreading nonsensical fear and misinformation isn’t the way to do it.
It seems an odd choice to restrict academic openness and freedom for the sake of bad actions [...]
Recently I’ve been seeing articles about homeschoolers using free software:
Free homeschool software: Probably the best conjunction of words that a homeschooling parent has heard since they found out that their child is going to summer camp. Why shouldn’t it be? Getting more for less is as American as homeschooling itself.
I’ve commented on several of these [...]
A school district in Texas has US$4.6 million in textbooks sitting in warehouses and school backrooms.
Why? Because they must provide textbooks for all children according to the state constitution, and they do so in the classroom, but don’t give them out to take home because of damage and loss being charged to the school when [...]
We talk about killer applications, the killer app, which are programs so good they change the nature of a situation. Email is long considered a general audience killer app, when you think about the impact it has had over the years.
For educators, is Moodle the killer app? Sure looks like it.
This is written while sitting [...]
This week I’m fulfilling a talk obligation that David Nalley and I set up last Fall, to talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom. In particular, this is the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) conference, with teachers and technology coordinators from K-12 districts across the country. K-12 is short-hand for primary [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
It seems to me there are two fundamental world views that drive parenting. Depending on which you subscribe to, it says how you are going to make many choices from there.
Your goal is to prepare your child for a rich and abundant life in the real world.
Your goal is to let your individual child blossom [...]
