Fireside Learning:  Conversations about Education

Skip Zilla

Skip Zilla's Groups (20)

  • Evidence-Based Practices

    7 members Latest Activity: Oct 17 What works in education? Is there valid evidence that programs and practices we use--or might consider using--are effective?

  • Interdisciplinary Lesson Planning for Community Development

    5 members Latest Activity: Dec. 11, 2008 This is for those of you looking to create lesson plans that are interdisciplinary that lead towards community development in our world today.

  • Harvard Project Zero Classroom, and Future of Learning

    44 members Latest Activity: Oct 25 People who are part of Harvard Graduate School's Project Zero Classroom may wish to sign up and network here. Everyone is welcome, not just Summer In…

  • The Neuroscience of Learning

    18 members Latest Activity: Oct 17 Remarkable findings of how our brains work when we are learning provide invaluable insights into improving educational practices.

  • Educating for Global Citizenship

    16 members Latest Activity: Oct 18 How long will we ignore the vision education can provide us to sustain peace and prosperity on Earth? Various themes of global concern offer good reas…

  • Foundation Resources for Education Reform

    4 members Latest Activity: Mar. 3, 2008 A growing number of non-profit organizations, large and small, well-established and new-on-the-scene, provide resources and funding for education refo…

  • Edge.org

    4 members Latest Activity: Nov. 13, 2008 "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each…

  • Helpful How-tos

    8 members Latest Activity: May 15 A place to find or ask for tutorials on how to use the features of this community's website

  • About Blogging

    15 members Latest Activity: May 15 Curious about blogging? Here we will exchange advice and ideas about the technology, the writing or the people who make up the enriching world of the…

  • Young Adult Literature

    16 members Latest Activity: Dec. 4, 2008 Share your ideas and get the low-down on the books and authors that adolescents are reading.

  • Administration Central

    19 members Latest Activity: Feb 28 Where administrators gather for sharing ideas and thoughts before or after putting them into practice.

  • Fireside Readers

    10 members Latest Activity: Jun 12 A place to share reading of interest. (One of the next nicest things about firesides is the quietness and warmth of reading together, with the occasio…

  • Sometimes Poets

    14 members Latest Activity: Jul 6 This group is for sharing poems you write or like with others.

  • Edutopia -- source of information and inspiration

    9 members Latest Activity: May 15 Publishes the stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media -- a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and a Web site. Let's…

  • TED: Ideas worth spreading

    28 members Latest Activity: Aug 29 TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since the…

  • infed.org -- a resource for informal education

    11 members Latest Activity: Aug 30 infed.org offers a place to explore the theory and practice of informal education and social action learning. Perhaps we can make use of its resources…

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