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≡ Category: Astronomy, Education, Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s something you don’t see every night: the far side of the Moon, photographed by one of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft. The Moon is “tidally locked” in its orbit around the Earth, meaning its rotational and orbital periods are exactly synchronized. As a result, we always see the same view of [...]
≡ Category: Art, Books, Education, Film, Music, Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
Before we rush headlong into a new year, it’s worth pausing, ever so briefly, to consider the ground we covered in 2011. What topics resonated with you … and jazzed us? Today, we’re highlighting 10 thematic areas (and 46 posts) that captured the imagination. Chances are you missed a few gems here. So please join [...]
≡ Category: Education, Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
On YouTube, the path to education is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. Left to their own devices, kids have a tendency to veer away from the math tutorials and head straight for the water-skiing squirrels. What’s an educator to do? Google believes it has the answer with “YouTube for [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Education | ≅ 3 Comments
In late October, Computerworld unearthed a lengthy interview with Steve Jobs originally recorded back in 1995, when Jobs was at NeXT Computer, and still two years away from his triumphant return to Apple. Filmed as part of an oral history project, the wide-ranging interview begins with Jobs’ childhood and his early school days, and it [...]
≡ Category: Art, Education, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Paola Antonelli — Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the MoMA, longtime proponent of humanized technology, self-described “curious octopus” — has arguably done more for the mainstream infiltration of design literacy than any other individual in contemporary culture. In her recent opening keynote at the unequivocally titled media and ideas conference The Conference in [...]
≡ Category: Books, Education | ≅ 2 Comments
For more than a decade, Luis Soriano, a primary school teacher, has traveled the rugged terrain of Colombia by donkey, delivering books to children in hundreds of rural villages. The project, powered by his two donkeys Alfa and Beto, goes by the name “Biblioburro.” And it seeks to promote literacy in areas where access to books [...]
≡ Category: Books, Education, Literature | ≅ 4 Comments
Thousands of public school teachers won’t be returning to the classroom this fall, thanks to budget cuts nationwide. And that means more than a few Jay Criche’s won’t get the chance to tap the hidden talents of young students. Jay Criche, in case you’re wondering, taught English at Lake Forest High School and counted Dave Eggers [...]
≡ Category: e-books, Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s hot off the digital press. Anya Kamenetz, a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine and author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, has teamed up with the Gates Foundation to release a free ebook, The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential. The new ebook offers a “comprehensive guide to learning online [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs, Education | ≅ 3 Comments
Garry Trudeau has taken on creationism before. He’s doing it again, this time commenting on the oxymoronic “Louisiana Science Education Act,” which allows the teaching of creationism in the public classroom. You can view Trudeau’s cartoon in full, and in high res here.
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Education, Film | ≅ 11 Comments
Jon Stewart put it nicely. Now filmmaker Michael Moore takes the gloves off. Visiting Madison, Wisconsin this Saturday, he told the crowd “America isn’t broke.” Rather, the money that used to run the country simply got siphoned out of the system and put into unproductive Wall Street accounts. Strong words, but if you consider that [...]
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