6 month ago
factoryjoe : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS - The Human Side of Moore's Law Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: technology, education
adamrg : I, Cringely: War of the Worlds - They really are ready to jettison institutions. Like Clay Shirkey said: here comes everyone. The model for our schools is stuck in the 19th century, with new technology grafted on. What's a teacher to do?
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philgyford : Redland Green School Overspend - The Report | James Barlow - Nice deadpan assessment of an apparently poor report into the £6.4 million overspend on construction of a new Bristol school. (via the Bristol Blogger)
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philgyford : Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online - Interesting articles on how a class of children played with Lego and how the teachers attempted to help them structure the play fairly. (via Haddock)
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adamrg : A School That's Too High on Gizmos - We received some of the wireless tablets, and they are a total waste of time. I haven't used it in any meaningful way since the first few days of novelty wore off.
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8 month ago
philgyford : Rickstones Yearbook 1986 - a photoset on Flickr - Photos and drawings from my school 21 years ago. You can see me in class 4R (the same photo as 4C on the thumbnails). Also, top row of thumbnails, fourth from left. Good work Ted!
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9 month ago
philgyford : Flickr: mills70's photos tagged with rickstones - I'm enjoying Ted's photos from our school in the 1980s. Fashions were strange weren't they.
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11 month ago
philgyford : School of Everything - Currently a way to list and find teachers of many subjects. More features planned for the future. (via Blackbeltjones on Iain Tait)
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13 month ago
adamrg : Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking - I did this in college, and it worked very well.
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16 month ago
jonhicks : Download Gill Sans Schoolbook - Linotype.com
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17 month ago
deusx : ABC News: Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks - "I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to"
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17 month ago
deusx : US teen jailed for school's daylight-saving cock-up | The Register - "In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which continued to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to spot that the bomb threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an hour after Webb's innocent cal
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18 month ago
Khoi Vinh : The Didn’t Study - Hilarious round-up of students’ smart alecky answers to tough test questions.
jimray : They didn't study - May as well be creative. The teacher's responses are just as funny.
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21 month ago
philgyford : The London School of Osteopathy - Someone at college was recommending these folks as a reasonably cheap way of getting a work-over. For future reference.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Are you cleverer when you're hungry? - Given that most schools in the UK are currently focusing on making sure children have had a good breakfast in order to improve behaviour and concentration, it's an interesting and impactful argument to make...
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21 month ago
deusx : The Wall of Separation - Falwell’s Flub: Jerry-Rigged Policy Opens Door For Pagan Proselytizing In Virginia Public School - "A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it."
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24 month ago
cameron : Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1 - A bunch of social education systems aimed at wired students. Makes me wish I had some classes to study for.
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24 month ago
43folders : Study Guides and Strategies - Metric assload of useful-looking aids to study and various forms of self-improvement.
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28 month ago
deusx : NYC School Cell Phone Ban Causes Uproar - Yahoo! News - "It's kind of ridiculous that we think we can't survive without a cell phone when people did it for thousands of years"
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33 month ago
jkottke : The Dover, PA evolution vs. intelligent design ends with the judge ruling against the teaching of ID in the classroom because it violated the "constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools" - The Dover, PA evolution vs. intelligent design ends with the judge ruling against the teaching of ID in the classroom because it violated the "constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools". "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the bo
plasticbag : A court in the Pennsylvanian town of Dover has declared it unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design in the town's schools... - I think my favourite comment about the whole thing comes from Pat Robertson who said that the move risked provoking the wratch of God - despite the ID prononent's assertion that it wasn't a religious theory...
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34 month ago
jkottke : Michael Sippey offers some suggestions on how web startups could benefit from how grade schools function - Michael Sippey offers some suggestions on how web startups could benefit from how grade schools function. Snack time, gym class, field trips, and using periods instead of a calendar.
kellan : mike sippey: everything I need to know to run a startup... - ... I learned in kindergarten? #
Paul Hammond : this is sippey.typepad.com: schoolwork - here are some ideas for how to run your next Web 2.0 startup
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36 month ago
deusx : Livejournal: Schools Directory - Goodbye Classmates.com?
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