thinkingtom

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James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
good stuff
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Derren Brown - Subliminal Advertising
I like showing this to everyone to reconnect them with the notion that we are very, very connected to media marketing.
FairTest: You can't judge learning with a standardized test
A public service type announcement from fairtest.org.

Spread the word.
Twitter and the World Simulation
Until recently, I thought twitter was a big joke. Great teaching on display here.
RSA - Sir Ken Robinson
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
Way back in '95 when I was a corporate guy, I remember pushing 'being digital' on as many 'leaders' as I could find. I loved the sections on learning - hard fun!

Here in NH, with the public school funding imbroglio the same as it ever was, I wonder how we'll ever get to 1:1 laptops.

And will the teachers learn enough to let the hard fun begin?
Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
A great talk - and an awesome suit. Where can I get one, Howard?
Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)
We used this at a staff meeting - he is a darn funny fellow and he makes a very compelling argument here!
Clay Shirky on New Book "Here Comes Everybody"
Sharing, Conversation and Collaboration must be integral in our instructional design - and collective action is a means by which the progressive educators can ignite/incite a evolutionary leap in K-20 education.