Could The Arts Put The Steam Into STEM?

The Common Core has emphasized the practical nature of education, and rightly so in many cases. As a result of its emphasis on practical education, for example, students are reading more non-fiction now in the elementary grades.  This is a good thing, as reading non-fiction requires certain skills not required when reading fiction.  The result…

12 Tips For Launching A Social Learning Group For Students

Social learning has always been a staple of education since Piaget, Thorndike, Vygotsky, and countless others before them began exploring how people learn. At its most basic level, this idea can be reduced to the need to socialize thinking, and experiment through interaction, play, and authentic, self-driven performance. In 12 Tips For Supporting Social Collaboration Jane Hart from Center for…

(At Least) 15 Ways Twitter Is Digital Poison

(At Least) 15 Ways Twitter Is Digital Poison

The Problem Twitter used to be a simple micro-blogging service to allow brief messaging, content sharing and aggregation through hashtags, and social conversations. But with its incredible success comes a price: everything. Literally everything. According the infographic from cabletv.com/#blametwitter, there are more than 233 million tweets per day. A little math will tell you that…

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