For more than 15 years, I've used websites to augment my teaching, research, and seminars. The first website that I was a part of was for the Global Thinking Project, a hand across the globe environmental science program that linked schools enabling them to...
For several days, I have been writing about the movement to standardize the curriculum, indeed, to develop a single set of standards for the entire nation---15,000 school districts. So far, Achieve.org has written the Common Core Standards in Mathematics and Reading,...
There was an interesting article in USA Today raising questions about the use of e-readers, in particular, the iPad in higher education. Many of us who use these tools (right now my wife and I are on trip in the US Southwest & have with us an I-Book, an I-Pad, an...
There was an interesting article in USA Today raising questions about the use of e-readers, in particular, the iPad in higher education. Many of us who use these tools (right now my wife and I are on trip in the US Southwest & have with us an I-Book, an I-Pad, an...
The Art of Teaching Science has been identified as one of 15 top science teaching blogs by Maria Magher's blog. We are very thrilled to be one of the weblogs on Maria's list. There you will find a collection of science teaching blogs that you might find relevant to...
I tuned into a lecture yesterday presented by Allan Collins which was hosted by The Learning Sciences Group at Penn State, and organized by Penn State Professor Richard Duschl. The title of the talk was Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, and is title of...
