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10 years of laptops in Maine schools
From the Lewiston Sun Journal [In 2001] Maine legislators approved — after months of doubt and debate — Gov. Angus King’s proposal to give every seventh-grader in Maine a laptop…. Ten years later, each...
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Maria Popova: content curation is a new kind of authorship
From Maria Popova via the Nieman Journalism Lab: New tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away,...
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Fourth graders play the World Peace Game
John Hunter From John Hunter via TED Talks John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4’x5′ plywood board — and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace...
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Steven Rosenbaum on curation, community and the future of news
From Steven Rosenbaum via Nieman Reports: …Today, the idea of journalist as curator is front and center, as the tools to make and tell stories are now in the hands of anyone with a cell phone, laptop...
View ArticleAdora Svitak: we’ll grow up to blow you away
I’ve seen Adora’s presentation a dozen times, and it still inspires me. From TED on YouTube The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been, which may...
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Anna Popova on networked knowledge
From Brain Pickings: Creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge,...
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Ken Robinson on passionate learning
From the Burlington Free Press – 9/23/2011 Sir Ken Robinson by Sebastiaan ter Burg [Sir Ken Robinson's] early career focused on bringing more arts education into British schools and from there he...
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From problem solvers to problem finders
From Ewan McIntosh: In the classrooms in which I work, students explore the twenty or so themes upon which our planet really depends, immerse themselves in the ideas and information their teachers,...
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Toward learner-centered education in Canada
I was honored to make a keynote presentation at British Columbia’s first IT4K12 conference in Vancouver this week. I met many education technology leaders who are working toward a learner-centered...
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Toward the Integral Internet
Twelve years ago, I was sparked by The Cluetrain Manifesto, a prescient book by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. This is from the introduction: What if the real...
View ArticleThe Language of Human Thriving
Peter Benson: "I like to ask adults: 'What is your highest aspiration for our young?' No one has ever said, 'This child of mine, my fondest wish is that they will ace statewide benchmark math and...
View ArticleNew York Times: Let kids rule the school
The students in the Independent Project are remarkable ... because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school...
View ArticleThe Nation: The crisis in higher education
The Nation: A scientific education creates technologists. A liberal arts education creates citizens: people who can think broadly and critically about themselves and the world.
View ArticleRobert Krulwich on the future of journalism
From Robert Krulwich: If you can … fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go.
View Article10 years of laptops in Maine schools
From the Lewiston Sun Journal [In 2001] Maine legislators approved — after months of doubt and debate — Gov. Angus King's proposal to give every seventh-grader in Maine a laptop.... Ten years later,...
View ArticleFrom Curiosity to Career
Four recent employer-led initiatives bridge the gap between education and employment, drawing Maine people of all ages toward high-demand occupations that match their interests and passions.
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Conference 2005
“Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for computers.” Jeff Bezos. Web 2.0 Conference 2005
View ArticleFuture of PR – A Q&A with Dartmouth's Jay Collier
“The point here is that the Web offers access to diverse perspectives.” Future of PR – A Q&A with Dartmouth’s Jay Collier
View ArticleFrom Curiosity to Career
Four recent employer-led initiatives bridge the gap between education and employment, drawing Maine people of all ages toward high-demand occupations that match their interests and passions.
View ArticleFrom Curiosity to Career
Four recent employer-led initiatives bridge the gap between education and employment, drawing Maine people of all ages toward high-demand occupations that match their interests and passions.
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