Hapgood

So I came up with this term a couple of minutes ago, and was surprised when I Googled it to find it didn’t exist. So here it is. And here is what it expresses — my utter shock that when talking to some otherwise intelligent adults about the fact that we are not educating our Continue reading

I really don’t know what it will take to show higher education how anti-intellectual their dismissal of Web 2.0 has been. But one might think this speech from Fields Medalist Terence Tao might have an effect. Very recently, software tools have become available to allow easier collaboration by large numbers of authors from across the Continue reading

I guess in honor of Columbus Day the Core Knowledge Blog has put up a list of questions about the Age of Exploration. The first question is this: 1. Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world? The answer they list below is: Ferdinand Magellan This is going to sound like nitpicking, but this Continue reading

I’ve just read what is hands-down my favorite article this month. It’s so good that I hate to excerpt or summarize it, so please read the whole thing whole thing if you can. Ok, for those of you that don’t take orders well — the core of the article deals with a well-educated AP student Continue reading

Oh, please make it stop. Check out the newest deal “inked” by Blackboard: Blackboard is providing academic users with access to historical multimedia resources from NBC Learn. The two companies today announced that that they’ve inked a deal to make historical and current events materials from NBC News accessible within the Blackboard Learn platform. Through Continue reading

The hanging of a census worker is going to be quickly dismissed by the Right as the work of meth-heads or moonshiners. I’m not sure I’d disagree with that analysis. But what it misses is this: all those ACORN workers that the Right has been demeaning over the past weeks? All those census workers that Continue reading

David Brooks, last May, on how the “Harlem Miracle” proves that the proles just need more stick and less carrot: To my mind, the results also vindicate an emerging model for low-income students. Over the past decade, dozens of charter and independent schools, like Promise Academy, have become no excuses schools. The basic theory is that Continue reading

Cross-posted from the new blog you MUST subscribe to — the Keene State CELT blog… I’m meeting with a quite a few people doing interesting things around quantitative literacy, and I can’t help but be amazed with the audacity of what they are attempting. If any of you are reading this post, know that you Continue reading

I’m sure everyone will be happy to know that Mark Bauerlein has now migrated to his natural habitat: The Wall Street Journal. And, displaying the sort of intellectual rigor that made him an expert on Gen-Y, he manages to write an entire column on Why Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues without citing a single Continue reading

Former Spellings Commission guy Robert Zemsky talks with University Business this month on the problem with online learning: One of the big problems is that we’ve gotten the idea that “it’s about the web.” It’s funny—there’s a whole lot of interesting technology on learning, but it’s not on the web. The really interesting stuff is Continue reading