Leading & Learning’s popular Point/Counterpoint section is looking for 500-word arguments on both sides of the question “Do schools still need brick-and-mortar libraries?” to publish in the November issue. The words that follow are what I believe… Yes. The trend towards digitizing books and journals is a realized certainty, one that is happening whether people …
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Everything Is Invented
I am definitely late to the And the Pursuit of Happiness party, but it makes me feel better that I am standing alongside Daniel Pink at the back of the line. “Everything is invented. Language. Childhood. Careers. Relationships. Religion. Philosophy. The future. They are not there for the plucking. They don’t exist in some natural …
Crowdsourcing Grading: Good Idea or Inherently Flawed?
A professor at Duke, Cathy Davidson, is about to begin a grand experiment: Using the “wisdom of crowds” as the primary means by which her students will receive grades for the course, “This is Your Brain on the Internet.” Said simpler, all of her students will collectively assess their peers’ work and contributions with minimal …
The Suckiness Quotient
Do educational games suck? Hmmm…. Scott McLeod seems to think that the suckiness factor is pretty high, especially the visual component that “typical” edutainment titles portray. I have to admit that my first, immediate reaction was one of agreement. The examples of educational titles (FunBrain Math Baseball, eSchoolOnline eMath Pretest, Hotmath Number Cop) that he …
The Quotes That Matter
It’s funny that I found the pictures that make up the slideshow below at about the same time that Laura wrote about wanting “One Image, One Line.” It is very kfisch-esque and “already done,” but it was pretty easy to create so I thought that I would share. Use the arrows and/or the scrollbar in …
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