May 2012
36 posts
Will: The Khan Iceberg →
willrichardson:
From USA Today:
Love it or hate it, Khan Academy is part of a looming tech-education iceberg, says Victor Hu, head of education technology and services for Goldman Sachs. He says that from 2002 to 2006, venture capital firms put $300 million into about 50 tech-ed deals; since 2007, $2 billion…
The Compass Point: World Class Learners Do More... →
thecompasspoint:
Looking forward to reading Yong Zhou’s new book due out soon: World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students
The focus is preparing global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents. On his blog Zhao writes that the book is the result of his efforts to answer…
The Learning Life: The Farm that Kindergarten... →
thelearninglife:
An early morning visit to the kindergarten on Friday was a chance for a guided tour of the farm. It’s a magnificent project now complete - a capstone to a year of exploration, research, discovery and creation. And the children are proud to show their work and point out their individual…
lingua fandom: Linguistics and Language Stuff, for... →
linguafandom:
Just a few things:
All languages and all dialects, standard and vernacular alike, have “grammar.” Grammar is just a word that means “the order and patterns that we see happening in the language.” Saying “I only like people who use grammar correctly” is like saying “I only like dinosaurs who are…
An Actual Trainspotter: Upper Lambourne - A Poem... →
anactualtrainspotter:
Up the ash tree climbs the ivy, Up the ivy climbs the sun, With a twenty-thousand pattering, Has a valley breeze begun, Feathery ash, neglected elder, Shift the shade and make it run -
(Pam Brophy) / CC BY-SA 2.0
Shift the shade toward the nettles, And the nettles set it free, To…
In Rebuke to Merkel, Social Democrats Win German... →
“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)
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British Council Film: City Bound →
thelondonwelost:
Great film of London “carrying-on” in wartime. Wonderful footage of buses, trains, stations, commuters and London in the 1940’s.
