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Connie Weber

"Turning On the Lights" by Marc Prensky, Educational Leadership

"Turning On the Lights" is an article in the current issue of EL. "For most of history, kids grew up in the dark intellectually. Right u...

Started by Connie Weber

5 Mar. 18, 2008
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Connie Weber

"The Geometry of Music," article in Science News

This article by Julie J. Rehmeyer, subtitled "Music as an audible exploration of hyperdimensional geometries" seems exquisitely fascina...

Started by Connie Weber

3 Mar. 11, 2008
Reply by Ellen Pham
Connie Weber

by Margaret J. Wheatley: an article on emergence; social networking

Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale, by Margaret J. Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, provides a fascinating perspective on wh...

Started by Connie Weber

8 Feb. 28, 2008
Reply by Skip Zilla
Connie Weber

global awareness in education

Looking around Fireside, I see a lot of discussions about global awareness, a lot of questions about what to do with regard to helping st...

Started by Connie Weber

19 Feb. 25, 2008
Reply by Ellen Pham
Connie Weber

"Cover the Material--Or Teach Students to Think" by Marion Brady, EL

Here's an article for the times: "Cover the Material--Or Teach Students to Think" by Marion Brady, EL, Feb, 2008 From the article: "To ...

Started by Connie Weber

58 Feb. 23, 2008
Reply by Ian Carmichael
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"Celebrating the Semicolon..." New York Times, for punctuation pundits

"Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location," an article in the New York Times, was just sent to me by a parent. The article i...

Started by Connie Weber

6 Feb. 20, 2008
Reply by Anna Billings
Connie Weber

"Northeast Bat Die-Off Mirrors Honeybee Collapse"

NPR news story by Brian Mann: thousands of bats in the American northeast have white-nose syndrome, currently unexplained. Some scientist...

Started by Connie Weber

0 Feb. 20, 2008
Connie Weber

new issue of Educational Leadership: "Teaching Students to Think"

The February 2008 issue of Educational Leadership is stellar. We could discuss any number of these articles. Fantastic issue!! What forum...

Started by Connie Weber

8 Feb. 18, 2008
Reply by Sylvia Martinez
Ian Carmichael

Disciplining the Mind, Educational Leadership, 65, 14-19

The authors here (Mansilla and Gardner) take up the well-worn position against just teaching content. Subject matter, they make the point...

Started by Ian Carmichael

2 Feb. 18, 2008
Reply by Connie Weber
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"Shooting Aliens: The Gamer's Guide to Thinking" from Educational Leadership

"Shooting Aliens: The Gamer's Guide to Thinking" from Educational Leadership by Nathan Holbert "Many educators are unified in the opinio...

Started by Connie Weber

0 Feb. 15, 2008

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