In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman used the terms Globalization 1.0, Globalization 2.0, and Globalization 3.0 as a way to compare and contrast three great eras of globalization. In the fabric of the World Wide Web, people have been using the term Web 2.0...
We know you have a lot on your plate---a deep recession, two wars in the Middle East, health care reform, extreme partisanship, the fast spreading swine flu. Yet the one area that that is essential to our well being as a nation--education--has yet to become center...
There was a very interesting new comment made on an earlier post entitited Should science teaching be political: A Humanistic Question. In that post I explored the ideas of researcher Wildson dos Santos, who had published an article: Scientific literacy: A Freirean...
I want to follow up from yesterday's discussion of Georgia's plan to boost beginning science teachers pay. I am prompted to do so because of the compelling comment on yesterday's post by Quin Harrell. Here is how he began his comment: While I agree with pay...
The short, and the long answer to this is no. Of course I framed the question using the phrase "the measure of teacher effectiveness." Why do I bring this topic up for discussion on this blog. In America there is a lot of talk about educational reform, especially...
Non-school learning was a term that John Dewey used for "informal experiences" that he felt helped learners acquire attitudes, values, and knowledge from daily experiences. Many students come to science class from a cultural world-view that makes learning science much...
