WebQuest.Org: Home
“A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.”
(tags: teaching learning education web edtech)
The New York Times Learning Network
(tags: teaching learning education web news)
How to make “timeouts” less like bar fights. - By Alan E. Kazdin - Slate Magazine
“Attention feeds a […]
dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer on Vimeo
on using a digital projector for math lessons
(tags: math teaching technology edtech)
dy/dan » Blog Archive » Why I Don’t Assign Homework
“if my kids evaluate and graph forty points over a class period, as they did yesterday, why would I send them home with any more?”
(tags: homework math […]
What I’ve Learned from Many Years of Teaching Calculus to First-Year College Students
‘Under “content”, the main issue is not that students don’t understand the concepts of calculus, it is that they don’t have facility with arithmetic and algebra.’
(tags: math teaching calculus)
And The Happiest Place On Earth Is…, Morley Safer On Why The Danes Are Considered The Happiest People On Earth - CBS News
The Danes’ secret to happiness? Low expectations!
(tags: happiness culture europe denmark research)
Ideas and Trends - For a Good Retirement, Find Work. Good Luck. - NYTimes.com
“In an industry survey, a majority of technology companies candidly said they would not hire anyone over 40.”
(tags: tech jobs career retirement)
Small Trees for Small Urban Lots
Japanese tree lilac looks nice.
(tags: gardening landscaping trees)
Why women quit technology careers
“We are finding that attrition rates among women spike between 35 and 40 — what we call the fight-or-flight moment.”
(tags: career gender technology)
/Message: The ‘No Women Speakers’ Meme Is Awake Again
(tags: toblog women gender conferences)
Study: Social networks may subvert ‘digital divide’ | The Social - CNET News.com
“Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout”
(tags: learning teens social-networks)
highschooljournalism.org - high school journalism from asne
(tags: teaching highschool journalism)
SocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education at […]
That’s the first question I get at job interviews lately. Yes, I’m looking to high school or middle school teaching — either math or technology — as my second career. You could say it’s my third or fourth career, after software development and then professional blogging/reporting and also stay-at-home mothering, if a career that be.
But […]
Althouse: On boldface and ludic reading.
“if you want to know what is conducive to ludic reading, I say it’s the web.”
(tags: reading flow)
Just some random notes and reminders…
Last week I migrated this site, Togetherism, and The Everyday Cafe to a new web host. The experience wasn’t too painful and it was totally worth it — the sites load almost immediately now instead of taking a few seconds.
Dawn Foster put some work in over the weekend on her […]
