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Quick Look: A Field Guide on How to Create an Innovator

Food for thought: “Every student starts school with unbounded imagination, curiosity and creativity – until he or she learns that knowing the right answer is far more important than asking a thoughtful question. So it isn’t so much ab…

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Updated: new editions of Stop Stealing Dreams

The free ebook (free as in free to read and share) now has two new audio editions, a French edition, one for readers in Brazil and yes, a bumper sticker that summarizes the book in 12 square inches (what three…

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Turning Teacher-Student Roles Upside Down

Upside Down Academy By Chris Thompson It’s a typical school day in Oakland, Calif., and Aaliyah is about to show how to solve two-step equations. Circling the three numbers in the equation 4x + 10 = 30, she says, “So one, two, three? Is a hater. Th…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/03/2012

Facebook Family Safety Center The Facebook family safety center has information on safety. I still feel it is very convoluted and very confusing but it does have some information for educators and parents on the s…

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If your happiness is based on always getting a little more than you’ve got…

then you’ve handed control over your happiness to the gatekeepers, built a system that doesn’t scale and prevented yourself from the brave work that leads to a quantum leap. The industrial system (and the marketing regime) adore the mindset of…

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 04/03/2012

Location Based Safety Guide This is a resource for those discussing location based and geotagging security on our Digital Citizenship lessons. tags: digiteen …

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Quick Look: Kids Fail Less When They Know Failure Is Part of Learning

More research that backs the idea of redefining failure as part and parcel of learning rather than something to deride. Source: Go Kids perform better in school if they know failure, and trying again, is part of the learning process, according to a new…

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Student-Created Video Games Enter Science Class

Globaloria By Jennifer Roland Identifying bones in a skeleton, learning how chemical elements react, understanding alternative energy uses. These lessons have jumped out of the textbook and into the hands of students who created video games that teach …

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 04/02/2012

Conditioning – Resources – TES Interesting lesson on conditioning that leads into a conversation about Pavlov’s dogs. tags: education psychology sc…

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Location Based Safety Guide

Privacy is a freedom we give ourselves. It is spring break. Facebook is full of my friends saying where they are (with their whole families), and it looks like most of them are posting publicly. Someone could easily look at the Camilla, Georgia and pu…

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