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Looking for What’s Best in Life
At the beginning of the year, the Kids Philosophy Slam asked students to consider if global warming posed "the greatest challenge facing humankind" as part of its annual competition. Emerging from ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed ...
Googling for Students
One of my biggest concerns in bringing on new students is their ability to solve problems. I'm much less concerned about teaching actual skills. That's actually not that hard to ...
What is the school of tomorrow?
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like.
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Barcamp Boston
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only ...
Deep Diving with IBM
On wednesday I went down to New York City to participate in part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 3.0 for a deep diving brainstorm and discussion session on media ...
Sugar and spice for the $100 laptop
I was reading this article from Business Week (.com) about the face of the $100 laptop. I've been spending a lot of face time with the laptop lately, as ...
[teaching] Agendas for Managing Students
I don't care what anyone says, managing people is difficult work. More specifically, being a good manager, one that is respected (although not necessarily liked, at least all the time) ...
Almost ideal…
I'm looking around my room now. When I first set the layout. I was pretty happy and decided that would be it for the year. I look at it now, ...