Thank you for visiting my blog. After teaching for forty years, I've spent the last ten writing the blog (and a host of other things), The Art of Teaching Science. For at least five years, I've used web themes created by StudioPress (Copyblogger Media) for...
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) seem to be following the historical trend of our infatuation with how technology can solve many of our problems in teaching and learning. Since 2008, MOOCs have emerged not only as individual and free online courses (such as those...
Eighth Article in the Series, Artistry in Teaching In this article I am going talk about a project that grew out of personal and professional relationships among teachers from different countries. Through reciprocal exchanges among educators in U.S. (most of...
No doubt you've read the news reports telling us that Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, informed all Yahoo employees that they could no longer work at home. There were many people who felt that Mayer did not understand the value of having employees work at home. Some...
ScienceDebate.org and Scientific American asked 33 leaders of science-oriented congressional committees to respond to a set of 8 science, technology and education questions. Here is ScienceDebate.org's public release of the results of their inquiry. FOR IMMEDIATE...
There was an article in the Washington Post entitled In Russia, The Lost Generation of Science. The article, by Will England, focuses specifically on Pushchino, a little known city south of Moscow, and the status of science in Russia generally. Science in Russia has...
