Who Are The Top 10 Users On Pinterest? It’s not entirely clear what makes pinterest users tick. Images are curated into often gorgeous collections, with users spending hours on end to meticulously maintain their collections. For users, does it function as a kind of visual social bookmarking, an engaging way to daydream, or something in…
There’s A Difference Between Cars & Kids Ken Robinson probably doesn’t need an introduction for most of you. Eloquent and inspirational speaker obsessed with creativity, school improvement, and the concept of each person finding their “element” in life. Of course, industrialized forms of learning, while trying extremely hard to uncover the gifts in every learner,…
A List Of The Best Literary Put-Downs There is a kind of unwritten rule among writers that you don’t criticize colleagues’ work too harshly, because they understand just how hard it is to produce great pieces. And yet, over the years handfuls of famous writers have taken huge exceptions to this rule, often with harsh…
A one-size-fits-all approach has never worked in education, and the variety of school options available today attests to that fact. While a number of private schools specialize in specific content or teaching approaches, the costs can be prohibitive to most parents. Charter schools have been rapidly multiplying throughout the country, offering students and families private-school-quality…
Here’s What A 2,000 Year-Old Lecture Hall Looks Like Kom el Dikka, a 2nd century AD Roman amphitheater in Alexendria, Egypt, allowed for an audience of up to 800 people, and hosted lecture theater performances, and even wrestling events. There is also speculation that it might’ve been a full-fledged university. Its excavation began in the…
Whether you’re looking for a place to scribble ideas or organize plotlines, these ipad apps for writing have you covered.
10 Of The Youngest College Students Of All Time by TeachThought Staff For most of us, conquering the classes it takes to get a college degree is hard enough at 18, but for some, higher education much. As amazing as it is, some kids are ready to take it all on before they’ve even hit…
A couple of years ago, Seth Godin participated in an interview where he released a scathing review of public schools in the United States.
Thoughts On Globalizing Education by Terry Heick While ideas of “dissolving borders” and “creating transparency” are tempting, accessible, and powerful, the world is a big place; true globalization will force already divergent cultures to confront one another anew—and to do so in the face of complex challenges for which there may be no “solutions.” True…
Here are some of the most amazing projects going on at traditional colleges and universities in the US and around the globe.
You may not have known reddit had a university. It’s not a real college, of course, but rather a kind of Khan Academy in forum form.
Ken Robinson On Schools Killing Creativity “We are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso one said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” I’ve seen this video probably ten times, and each time something new stands out to me. This time, the idea of a…
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