Category Archives: education

Framing The Question

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Whitney 6 Comments

I’ve read a couple of interesting blog posts over the past few days that have really got me thinking.  The first was from my friend CC Chapman, on the YSN blog, asking whether apps will kill work ethic.  The other was … Continue reading →

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Seeing Unions Through The Eyes of Teachers

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Whitney 1 Comment

This past weekend at Educon 2.6, Kevin Jarrett and I hosted a session entitled “How Unions Can help Foster Education Reform”.  This was prompted by a question I have had for a long time, which is whether the public view … Continue reading →

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STEM, Girls and The Beastie Boys

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Whitney 3 Comments

UPDATE: Goldiblox has written an open letter and taken the video down.  I’m actually sort of sorry about that, because it was a STEM great video, and even more, has started a real and serious conversation about girls and science, engineering … Continue reading →

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The Personal User’s Manual

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Whitney 1 Comment

I was reading a great blog post over on Edutopia about writing a Student’s User Guide. The title was a bit dull, but on reading it, a teacher talks about developing a “personal User’s Guide” not only for herself, but … Continue reading →

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Project versus Problem Based Learning

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Whitney 2 Comments

I’m really excited to be part of the group facilitators over at Edutopia.  This week. we’re having an interesting discussion about cross-curricular project based learning which, in my mind, is about trying to get teachers in different subject areas to collaborate … Continue reading →

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