Ken Robinson Explains How to Escape the Death Valley of American Education

≡ Category: Education, TED Talks |1 Comment

Right now, you can find 1,520 TED Talks compiled into a neat online spreadsheet. That’s a lot of TED Talks. And the most popular one (in case you’re wondering) was delivered by Sir Ken Robinson in 2006.

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Watch the Finals of the Poetry Out Loud Competition, Live Tonight

≡ Category: Education, Poetry |Leave a Comment

“Having others’ poems in our minds and hearts means we’re never really alone.”
—Karen Kovacik, Indiana State Poet Laureate
Youssef Biaz, reciting here, was 16 years old when he was named Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Biaz won a $20,000 award and $500 worth of poetry books for his high school in Auburn, Alabama.

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Enrich Yourself with Free Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Textbooks & More

≡ Category: Audio Books, e-books, Education, Film, Online Courses |Leave a Comment

How’s that New Year’s resolution going? You know, the one where you promised to make better use of your free time and learn new things? If you’re off track, fear not. It’s only April. It’s not too late to make good on your promise. And we can help.

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Creative Commons Announces “School of Open” with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness

≡ Category: Education, Law, Online Courses, Wikipedia |3 Comments

Just in time to celebrate Open Education Week, here comes a new initiative, the School of Open, a learning environment focused on increasing our understanding of “openness” and the benefits it brings to creativity and education in the digital age.

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David Foster Wallace Breaks Down Five Common Word Usage Mistakes in English

≡ Category: Education, English Language, Writing |8 Comments

What advantage, I recently asked a trilingual writer, could you possibly find in using such an improvised, confusing, irregular patchwork of a language as English? She replied that this very improvisation, irregularity, and even confusion comes from the vast freedom of expression (and of invention of new expressions) that English offers over other

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Google Launches a New “Art Talks” Series: Tune in Tonight

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Today at 8 p.m. EST Google Art Project will launch a new series, Art Talks. Like Google’s other Hangouts on Air, Art Talks will convene some of the most influential people of our time.

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Download the Universe: A Discerning Curator for Science eBooks

≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books, Education, iPad, Literature, Science |1 Comment

We all need guides for the overwhelming world of the Internet. Digital curators are essential to sifting through the vast and expanding supply of online content because they find the good stuff that’s worth checking out.

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W.H. Auden’s 1941 Literature Syllabus Asks Students to Read 32 Great Works, Covering 6000 Pages

≡ Category: Education, Literature |6 Comments

According to Freud, neurotics never know what they want, and so never know when they’ve got it. So it is with the seeker after fluent cultural literacy, who must always play catch-up to an impossible ideal.

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Download Eight Free Lectures on The Hobbit by “The Tolkien Professor,” Corey Olsen

≡ Category: Education, Literature, Online Courses |2 Comments

The name Corey Olsen may already be familiar to some readers—or at least those readers who venerate the literary accomplishments of one J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Father Guido Sarducci Pitches “The Five Minute University”

≡ Category: Comedy, Education |1 Comment

If you experienced the heyday of Saturday Night Live, you’ll almost certainly remember Father Guido Sarducci, the chain-smoking, sunglass-wearing priest who worked (rather implausibly) as a rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.

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