by Whitney | Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
One point I share with parents on all the time, (and I got this insight from the great Rick LaVoie), is to NEVER confuse Fair and Equal. From Merriam Webster: Equal: 1 a (1): of the same measure, quantity, amount, or number as another Fair has many more defintions,...
by Whitney | May 19, 2008 | education, learning, new media
A friend of mine asked what I thought about lawyers using social media tools for communication and networking. I wrote a long email back, and it became clear there was a blog post brewing, so here it is- my thoughts on the use of social media for professions,...
by Whitney | May 19, 2008 | education
For the second year in a row, I have helped organize and worked all last week at the Book Fair at our local elementary school. We use a local vendor, rather than Scholastic, and the Fair always has amazing books I’ve never seen before. This is not a fund raiser...
by Whitney | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
At a session at Podcamp NYC on Education and the Web, Chris Hambly spoke about teachers becoming “Guides on the Side” rather than simply talking heads in the front of a room. This neatly summed up something I have been thinking about for some time, which...
by Whitney | Feb 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
K-12 education in this country is an institution. Massachusetts was the first state to enact compulsory school attendance laws in 1852, followed by New York in 1853. (1) By 1918, all states passed laws requiring children to attend at minimum elementary school, and a...
