by Whitney | Sep 7, 2011 | community, education, learning, Uncategorized
CNN Online had an interesting article written by multi-awarded Ron Clark, discussing some of the things teachers really want to tell parents but don’t feel they can. As a parent and someone who sits on a school district committee with teachers, I’m in a...
by Whitney | Sep 6, 2011 | economics, education, learning
Today is the first day of school for my kids. They guys are now a junior in high school and an eighth grader, going off with a bit more enthusiasm than I expected, to be honest. Education is under fire from all fronts these days, in part because we all know, in our...
by Whitney | Jul 25, 2011 | education, learning, parenting, politics
There’s a recent article in the New York Times that talks about should be taught to teachers in Ed School, or in essence, what should a teacher have to know before going into a classroom? One of the teachers quoted in the article says something to the effect of...
by Whitney | Jul 5, 2011 | business, Discovery, education, explanations, learning
In doing some research for a new project, I stumbled across a new animate from The RSA based on a lecture I love from Steve Johnson. (You should really listen to the whole podcast, or better yet, subscribe to the series in iTunes.) It fits in well with my post the...
by Whitney | Jun 17, 2011 | community, education, happiness, new media, social media
The one thing I’ve discovered after working in and around social media for nearly six years is that the image presented is not always all that it seems. If you look through the headlines, there are numerous accounts of folks getting into trouble because...
by Whitney | Jun 7, 2011 | education, explanations
A friend of mine suspected that some of their blog content was being “scraped.”* Scraping generally involves taking other people’s content and re-purposing it on another website without proper attribution or links, basically becoming the old-school...
