Where do social action, art, music, technology, media, pop culture, and most importantly, student needs intersect?
via artandwriting.org Honoring our student artists, writers, and game designers. Some previous winners: Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Bernard Malmud, and Philip Pearlstein. Good stuff...
Many social institutions are challenged to fulfill their missions in the complex new global reality arising as a result of advancements in digital technology. Take educational institutions, for example. A report released in 2009 by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University and the Alternative Schools Network in Chicago found that U.S. schools are having serious difficulties engaging and retaining students, let alone educating them to succeed in today’s world. The report found that about 7,000...
via youtube.com Amazing! I feel so behind!
via stemchallenge.org
A new way to help teach our students to be media producers...look forward to this. Skoodio NewSchools Venture Pitch 2011 from James Truong on Vimeo.
This video gives us something to think about in terms of how our brains are wired. How will this impact what happens in your classroom? How do you teach empathy? Why it this an essential skill?
via teachingtochangela.org
via fastcompany.com I love this!!! The perfect gift: an iPad and teaching my parents how to use Proust.