Monthly Archives: August 2009

Pretty incredible clip. I’m actually a bit speechless. Thank God the newspapers are keeping everyone honest, right?

Recently, one of our faculty, a leading authority on Autism, shared this amazing video he had found: This to me is the promise of education writ large: helping kids (and adults!) to find their unique abilities, no matter who they … Continue reading →

It’s increasingly important to consider how the Good Enough Revolution pertains to education. I’m a fan of educational research, but worry that it focuses too much on marginal differences, in a world that does not value marginal differences in quality … Continue reading →

Most people don’t understand the mess the Senate has become in terms of its delaying tactics and the use of filibuster by delay. The press doesn’t cover it, because they’d rather film people shouting at town halls than tell us … Continue reading →

…and good riddance. From the NY Times: Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. “I just think … Continue reading →

“Kay’s dad has got recessive gene that she may have, she doesn’t know if she has it has it, so she is genotyping that gene in herself in her closet, and she’s going to figure out if she has it….” … Continue reading →

Downes makes the point repeatedly that we talk too much about collaboration (which is something new technology allows us to do better) and not enough about cooperation (which is something the network allows us to do for the first time … Continue reading →

We scoff at the ancestor worship of other cultures, and consider divine right and kingship and all that stuff to be anti-American. So can someone explain to me why we will endure any kind of nuttery if it is tied … Continue reading →