Connie Weber

It's that time of the year: The Edublog Awards

I'd like to make nominations in two categories:

Best Group Blog: Bridging Differences with Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch, on Edweek.

Why? Because on Bridging Differences we're at the forefront of education news, with intelligent discussion from differing viewpoints. Deborah and Diane write heartfelt, well-re… Continue

I've got the class in four groups of four; students have chosen their Complex Problems and are beginning their explorations. We have two groups studying windmills' affects on bird populations, one investigating camels' recent behaviors in Australia, and one looking into the proposal to tax soda and use the tax for health initiatives.

I feel like I've been a conductor all year, making learning music with the class in group form. Now the students are in their ensembles, in conductorless mini-orch… Continue

Here's an article by the speaker I'm listening to now: Kurt Fischer (from Harvard).

Can the Differences Between Education and Neuroscience be Overcome by Mind, Brain, and Education?

A stunningly meaty article on the rise of a new field. Neuromyths; the history of education's relation to use of science to inform practice; philosophy, epistemology, a transdisciplinary collaborational framework..… Continue

the current speaker, Kenneth S. Kosik, is talking about "The Wikification of Knowledge."

"An External Hard Drive for the Brain

As a neuroscientist who spends time thinking about how people’s brains process information, this technology—and the information overflow it brings—are without a doubt changing the way human beings make decisions. Neuroscientists have increasingly come to understand memory as a fun… Continue

I'm at the Learning and the Brain Conference in Cambridge. Just want to post this link immediately. I learned of Mary Helen as a study group leader in Harvard Project Zero and Future of Learning last summer. When our group participants would come back from her sessions, there were stars in their eyes. They were dazzled, stunned. It's as if they had been deep sea diving and had just come to the surface, astonished at the worlds they had seen. I wondered, what in the world? Now I know why p… Continue