All Blog Posts Tagged 'history' (4)

Good conversations

This rather dull snapshot was taken with my phone at the recent NECC 2009 conference in Washington, DC. Funny. Sometimes it's the non-conference things that really push my thinking forward.… Continue

Emmy Werner, an eminent American development psychologist, wrote a wonderful book a couple of years ago, titled In Pursuit of History: Coming of Age in the American Revolution, which captures the challenging and courageous lives of children in a time of war and social transformation--largely in their own words! For anyone specifically seeking a new way to engage students in t… Continue

So you thought the ground you're standing on was always there and will always be there? Think again. Here's a link to a time-traveling website which shows how different the face of the Earth has been over time: PaleoMap Project. What will be the impact of educating ourselves and our children to see the natural world as it has been, is, and will be? Perhaps, taking the time to talk with them about the mysteries of life (preferably in some "sacred,"… Continue

You don't say... I lived in an off-campus apartment with three other students across 113th Street from Butler Library during my junior year at Columbia. I'd often run home between classes, to eat lunch, to pick up a laundry bag to take to the cleaners, or for some other practical reason. Occasionally, on my way into the building, I would run into the super, a loquacious, graying African-American fellow, who always wore the same blue overalls and baseball cap no matter the season and whose parti… Continue