The residential collage
From the New York Times: The Residential Collage. On a Monday in April, a dozen or so Cornell students living at the Alice Cook House had dinner with the legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas....
View ArticleKids’ response to the XO laptop
Michael Tiemann gave his 8-year-old daughter an XO laptop for Christmas, and blogs about how that’s working out: Risks–and rewards–of XO laptop. …the real fun began after we started to explore the XO’s...
View ArticleIdaho turns to chess as education strategy
From the New York Times: Idaho Turns to Chess as Education Strategy. Once a week, Deborah McCoy, a third-grade teacher in Donnelly, Idaho, unpacks chessboards and pieces and spends an hour teaching her...
View ArticleTeach magic lessons in school, says professor
From The Guardian: Teach magic lessons in school, says professor. The trick to making primary school children more confident and sociable is to teach them magic, claims Professor Richard Wiseman,...
View ArticleTraining young brains to behave
From the New York Times: Training Young Brains to Behave. But just as biology shapes behavior, so behavior can accelerate biology. And a small group of educational and cognitive scientists now say that...
View ArticleReaching an autistic teenager
From the New York Times: Reaching an Autistic Teenager. On a typical Monday morning at an atypical high school, teenage boys yanked open the glass doors to the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga....
View ArticleConversation cops at Queen’s University
A Globe and Mail article explains that Queen’s University has hired conversation cops to interrupt conversations that aren’t up to politically correct standards. Your friend’s new fuchsia fedora might...
View ArticleA prof debunks standardized testing
Have you ever landed in the hell that is standardized testing? Do names like Pearson appear in your nightmares? If so, or if you’re just interested in twisty tales and educational quality, you’ll want...
View ArticleAttending university is free in Germany
From the BBC: How US students get a university degree for free in Germany. In a kitchen in rural South Carolina one night, Hunter Bliss told his mother he wanted to apply to university in Germany. Amy...
View ArticleSchool for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park
Who can resist things that land on the intersection of history and geekiness? From the Guardian: School for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park. Its first operatives famously cracked coded...
View ArticleMaggie won the Global Teacher Prize!
In the Exaltation of Links post yesterday, I noted the CBC story about Maggie MacDonnell, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize. (And that comes with a whack of money.) Maggie teaches in...
View ArticleBoston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion
A Guardian article tells us that Boston public schools are switching maps. Instead of using the Mercator projection maps most of us are used to, Boston will now be using Peters projection maps. The...
View ArticleAn exaltation of links! (February 2018)
An assortment of things to read as you sip your coffee, my dears. History and Archaeology The coolest news yesterday was this: Spain cracks King Ferdinand’s 500-year-old secret code. The BBC was good...
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