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Including Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Read More"Thwart Institutional Cowardice"
Congratulations Vicki Abeles for Raising Funds for next film "Beyond Measure" Read moreIs This The Best High School in America?
WATCH: How These Six Minutes May Change Your Idea of Innovative Education (dramatically). Phillips Exeter, Harvard Westlake & Lawrenceville may be taking notes from this charter school leading the next wave. Does your High School look anything like it? Read moreThe Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System
New update December 2, 2013 which includes Yong Zhao link and comments PLUS CNN videos Read moreTen To-Do's for Young People to Consider
#1 - Build a "Personal Board of Directors" Read moreMind Overload! from Technology & "Societal Exhaustion"
Mindfulness: "I've seen it transform classrooms . . . " Read moreEcoTherapy: "You're gonna look at some trees" - Video :)
Truth in Humor ---- It's come to this, folks Read moreWeekend Funnies: How to inspire kids to be "Not a scientist"
Man-Made Climate Change?The Colbert Report - VideoThe "I'm not a scientist" riff starts at the 2:50 mark. The entire video (under 5 minutes) is well worth the watch: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video... Read moreStephen Colbert's Sound Advice: How To Ace The SAT's
Tip #1: "Spend A Lot Of Money . . ." Read moreBeing Pegged, Late Bloomers and Effort
How 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Dissed by His High School Biology Teacher Read moreWhat I'm liking right now: "There's more to life than likes"
Has "sharing" made family experiences better? Three 20-secondish PSAs below Read moreStephen does Common Core Math
Video in case you missed it - Math! Read moreThere is No Education Without the Arts
"We're not talking about making sure that everybody has private music lessons," Read moreWant smart & different kind of brilliant? Check out John Oliver
Video - Humor His Climate Change segment with Bill Nye and "the deniers" is just that. Read moreCool Smart Teen: Changing the conversation about building stuff
Not just building an app to play with . . . but a test for cancer Read moreVideo: What is the link between "design-thinking" and creativity?
Creative Confidence: Must-Watch Interview on Charlie Rose Read moreCEO: Drawing Can Help One Think and Reflect
Great video from pandodaily, my new favorite tech site, about how the CEO of Deviant Art uses his artistic expression and journaling to help him think, reflect, organize or clear his head to work better. Read moreI Forgot My Phone: Viral Video
If you missed this one, do check it out below.26 million views and counting . . . two minute run-time.... Read moreHomeless Man Developing App for Climate Change - Video
A Mentor-Mentee Story: $100 or Learn How to CodeCheck out this story: after being given a choice and after four weeks of learning how to code by someone who took the time, has developed an app that is almost ready... Read moreFamous Failures who didn't "make the grade"
What Michael Jordan and Thomas Edison had in common - One Minute Video Read more3 Things Needed for Authentic Learning
Allowed to Be Curious, Messy and Reflective Read moreCreativity: My Way or the Highway
Doesn't work that way, folks Read moreWe're Gonna Make You POPular!
The Top Ten MOOCs Higher Ed "Stars" are Male- Not a Single Woman - Really?? Read moreAre we creating innovators? 22 Insights
C.J. Westerberg dissects new book by Tony Wagner - "Creating Innovators" Video Trailer Read moreWhat Adults Can Learn From Kids: "Don't Underestimate Our Ability"
12 Year Old Literacy Advocate Sets Us StraightAre Teachers & Parents Actually Making Kids "Shrink To Fit?"
TED Video - Eight Minutes of Adora Svitak Read more
Why Parents & Educators Should Know about the Maker Movement
Essentially, if your kid can't build, do or make, maybe you should re-evaluate their education Read moreJohn Green's "Brilliant" Commencement Speech: The True Hero's Errand
Best-Selling Author of "The Fault in Our Stars" Read moreHere a MOOC, there a MOOC, everywhere a MOOC, MOOC . . .
16 Possible Effects of MOOCsThe good, the bad and the ugly Read more
"The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination"
JK Rowling, Harry Potter Author, Captivates Crowd With Harvard Commencement Speech Read moreThe Arts: Seeing & Thinking Differently
Artless & Senseless? "Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident." -Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking Read moreFriday Funnies: PRINT THIS
30-second Video Read moreWeekend Video Funnies
Watch 9-Year Old play tennis with "No Fear" vs. pros and Ben Stiller Read moreShould Schools Teach Students How-to-Code + Lessons Beyond
More concerning is that if we can't portray what is taught in school as compelling, maybe it's not as relevant as we think. Read moreRocketship Education charter school founder on a new flight
"Rocketship Education founder John Danner leaves charter school to start online-learning company" Read moreTwo-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, Harvard Professor did not take Algebra until College (!)
Are we too obsessed with Math requirements? by CJ Westerberg Read more"An Amazing Time For Math In This Country"
High School Math Teacher Dan Meyer, gig At Google, riffs about Math - photo NOT Meyer(!) TED talk Read moreThe Most "Inarticulate Generation?"
2 Minute Video - Truth in Humor Read moreThe Math Salon
Play Games = Learning Math Video Read moreTime to Change STEM to STEAM
Innovation: STEM enables it. But Art drives it. Read moreLearning. Outside the box.
When you are taught inside a box, you lose parts of yourself. Must-Watch Quick Video. Read more"It's good to be curious about many things"
VIDEO - Steve Jobs and Mister Rogers have something in common Read moreNote to Aaron Sorkin
Dig Deeper into Education Read moreMichael Jordan and success: "Maybe I led you to believe it was easy . . . when it wasn't . . ."
Michael Jordan & LeBron James duke it out Read moreWhat's Missing in Education: The Entrepreneurial Edge?
Video Interview- Eric Ries, "The Lean Start-up," and Mark Suster: . . . numerous take-aways for educators, parents and students, covering topics such as the necessity of failure; Steve Jobs; what the next middle class will look like; getting out of our silos (one of my favorite topics); how software development is not just about creating another Facebook; and what's missing in education. Read moreTeachers Share Their "Aha Moments"
"There was a time when I was a young teacher where I really thought my worth as a teacher was judged by how much I could cover and how much I could transmit to kids . . ." Read moreA very viral Al Pacino riff
"Inches" Make the Difference. Inspiration for students, parents, educators - - - Read moreTOP VIRAL VIDEO POKES "THE SYSTEM"
Funny and most illuminating. Sir Ken Robinson, one of education's rock stars, WILL transform your view of education. Read moreThe Chinese Curse. Is America Next?
"HIGH SCORES BUT LOW ABILITY"Is America Leaving Behind What Asia Wants? : Controversial Book & Video Read more
Three Young Women Wow Crowd at TEDx
" . . .making my own opportunities when I didn't even know what I was doing." Read moreJon Stewart on SOPA: "Angry Nerds"
Masterful - - - Read moreA Connected Teacher: Priceless
Does This Look Like Your School Classroom? Read moreCrossing the Math Chasm
Asking the Right Questions: So at one end we've got falling interest in education in math, and at the other end we've got a more mathematical world . . . teachers are also frustrated. Read moreAre Girls Really Alright?
"The Morale of this Story? Embarrass Your Daughters"- Rachel Simmons Read moreSteve Jobs: What if you knew "life was made up by people that were no smarter than you . . . ?"
"Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." Read moreDoes Education Need "A New Sheriff"? Elizabeth Warren
Gotta Watch Two Minute "Truth in Humor" Rap Viral Video: Elizabeth Warren Read moreThe Daily Riff's "Person of the Year" in Education 2009
Video - High Tech High with Larry Rosenstock - - 'the great liberal arts HS in disguise' Read moreMagazines Don't Work. iPad Does. . . according to a 1-year old
Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly: "The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. [A] humble tribute to Steve Jobs, by the most important person: a baby." Not such a great thing . . . Read more"My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation."
" . . we had a PC education - people tried to hide from us as long as possible that not everyone is equal we were told we all have a fair chance of making it that's just not so and we're starting to realize that . . ." Read more12 Angry Teachers
The Video By Teachers Depicting a Clever Debate About Teaching and Learning Read moreCollege Drop-Out Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech: "Three Stories From My Life"
Followed His Curiosity & Intuition Which "Turned Out To Be Priceless Later On" VIDEO Read more"Mr. Cellophane" Invisible Kids: In the middle of the achievement gap
Because you can look right through me, walk right by me, and never even know I'm there Read moreThink for yourself, your teacher might be wrong
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. Read moreFacebook and education? Social media? Ask kids what they think.
The Southpark Episode A group of teens set me straight this week-end when I asked them about Facebook. Read moreTeachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learners
"The way we were taught is not necessarily the way we should be teaching students." - Stacey Roshan, High School Algebra Teacher, Bullis School, Montgomery County, Md. Read moreParents & the homework blues. Forget the flash cards . . .
"Be There. . . .Let's not forget the emotional connection between teacher and student." David Brooks and "The Social Animal." Read moreWhat Do They Know? They're Just Students . . .
Dr. Alec Couros Says He's An Educator, But Has His "Open Doctrine" Gone Too Far? Video - Humor Read moreHow to Learn
"If we continue to look at education as if it's about coming to school to get the information and not about experiential learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure we are missing the mark . . . ." - Diana Laufenberg Read moreColbert takes on Renaissance man, James Franco
"Is his brain like a shark, and will die if he stops learning?" Read more3 Who Lead, Learn, and Think
3 Quick Videos. #1 Heidi Hayes Jacobs shares a leadership story when she goes head-to-head against a school principal and allows her ego to take precedence (we've all been there). Read moreHow the Arts Prepare for a Life's Work in any Discipline
07.24.2015 | Including Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Watch Now | Comments
"Thwart Institutional Cowardice"
02.04.2015 | Congratulations Vicki Abeles for Raising Funds for next film "Beyond Measure" Watch Now | Comments
Parents: Are we sabotaging our own kids' math "ability"?
01.19.2015 | Many parents in the United States assume that (math ability) is just some kind of aptitude - some kids have it, some kids don't . . . The result is most of our kids (in the U.S.) don't do really well in Math . . ." Watch Now | Comments
Tom Friedman: Think Like an Immigrant
01.13.2015 | Five Ways to Succeed in Life and Work Watch Now | Comments
Is This The Best High School in America?
01.02.2015 | WATCH: How These Six Minutes May Change Your Idea of Innovative Education (dramatically). Phillips Exeter, Harvard Westlake & Lawrenceville may be taking notes from this charter school leading the next wave. Does your High School look anything like it? Watch Now | Comments
The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System
12.17.2014 | New update December 2, 2013 which includes Yong Zhao link and comments PLUS CNN videos Watch Now | Comments
Ten To-Do's for Young People to Consider
12.16.2014 | #1 - Build a "Personal Board of Directors" Watch Now | Comments
Mind Overload! from Technology & "Societal Exhaustion"
12.16.2014 | Mindfulness: "I've seen it transform classrooms . . . " Watch Now | Comments
EcoTherapy: "You're gonna look at some trees" - Video :)
12.12.2014 | Truth in Humor ---- It's come to this, folks Watch Now | Comments
"It's Disengagement, Stupid"
12.11.2014 | The 10 Essential Rules for Engagement Watch Now | Comments
21st Century Skills: A "thorny problem" in the classroom
12.08.2014 | . . . .most high schools' science "experiments" are really "demonstrations," because they are "rigged" for the right answer, thereby disqualifying them as true experiments where outcomes are unknown. Watch Now | Comments
Weekend Funnies: How to inspire kids to be "Not a scientist"
11.08.2014 | Man-Made Climate Change?The Colbert Report - VideoThe "I'm not a scientist" riff starts at the 2:50 mark. The entire video (under 5 minutes) is well worth the watch: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video... Watch Now | Comments
Stephen Colbert's Sound Advice: How To Ace The SAT's
11.05.2014 | Tip #1: "Spend A Lot Of Money . . ." Watch Now | Comments
TEENS -- A LOST GENERATION?
11.04.2014 | Now almost 16 million views - "brilliant" video - under two minutes Watch Now | Comments
Being Pegged, Late Bloomers and Effort
10.30.2014 | How 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Dissed by His High School Biology Teacher Watch Now | Comments
What I'm liking right now: "There's more to life than likes"
08.03.2014 | Has "sharing" made family experiences better? Three 20-secondish PSAs below Watch Now | Comments
Stephen does Common Core Math
06.30.2014 | Video in case you missed it - Math! Watch Now | Comments
There is No Education Without the Arts
06.29.2014 | "We're not talking about making sure that everybody has private music lessons," Watch Now | Comments
College Professors Read Their Student Reviews
06.29.2014 | Quick Video Below Gotta love the college profs for sharing -... Watch Now | Comments