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How’d I Miss Ed Sheeran Singing About How School and Home Differ on Sesame Street?
How’d I Miss Ed Sheeran Singing About How School and Home Differ on Sesame Street?
You gotta love this music video of Ed Sheeran leading the Sesame Street crew in a song about the differences…
I Have Learned that Smartphones Are Kind of Like Brain Candy
I Have Learned that Smartphones Are Kind of Like Brain Candy
Technology is a double-edged sword. It might make new kinds of innovation possible, but it also can have problematic effects…
What Incredibles Math
What Incredibles Math
This clip resonates with me something fierce. As the father of an elementary age student, I can attest to the…
4 Minutes on How Food Affects Your Brain. Go!
4 Minutes on How Food Affects Your Brain. Go!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I’m convinced that schools can make a significant impact on student…
Middle-Earth at the Morgan Library? Yes, Please.
Middle-Earth at the Morgan Library? Yes, Please.
I have 18 days to get myself to the Tolkien exhibit at the Morgan Library, where they have on display…
Chris Rock Implores Parents: Stop Telling Your Kids They Are Special
Chris Rock Implores Parents: Stop Telling Your Kids They Are Special
Allow Chris Rock to play the role of Shakespearean fool whose wisdom proves to be undeniable. In this clip, he…
Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
This video about stress and the brain should be required viewing for all teachers. As you watch it, think about…
What If Education Prepared Children for Life, Not Jobs? A Philosophical Cartoon Explores
What If Education Prepared Children for Life, Not Jobs? A Philosophical Cartoon Explores
Schools do a lot of things. One of the things we expect them to do is to prepare children to…
Want to Learn to Code? Start WITH Scratch, Not From It.
Want to Learn to Code? Start WITH Scratch, Not From It.
The father of Scratch, MIT’s Mitch Resnik, offers this thoughtful talk on why it’s important to learn to code, how…
Netflix Be Damned. Levar Burton Talked About Literacy for an Hour at SXSWedu
Netflix Be Damned. Levar Burton Talked About Literacy for an Hour at SXSWedu
An hour with Levar Burton talking about literacy. Hell, yes. Let me be honest: I haven’t watched this yet. BUT…
Jay-Z Reminds Us that When Students Have Something to Say, You Can’t Stop Them From Writing
Jay-Z Reminds Us that When Students Have Something to Say, You Can’t Stop Them From Writing
I love scouring the internet for hidden gems of insight about learning and teaching. The other night, I was binge-watching…
How to Boost Test Scores Without Changing Standards, Curricula, or Tests
How to Boost Test Scores Without Changing Standards, Curricula, or Tests
Let’s make a bet. I bet we can see impressive increases in achievement scores without touching academics. I’m not saying…
Step It Up: Girls Who Learn to Code Through Dance
Step It Up: Girls Who Learn to Code Through Dance
Dance and coding might seem like an odd pairing, but in fact they go together gloriously. One of the core…
Blimey! Did a British Pure Mathematician Just Explain to Me Why American Politics Looks the Way it Does?
Blimey! Did a British Pure Mathematician Just Explain to Me Why American Politics Looks the Way it Does?
It doesn’t event take 10 minutes for Dr. Eugenia Cheng (known also for her quantitative baking chops) to go from…
Reading Rainbow 4 Eva
Reading Rainbow 4 Eva
Talking with a new teacher recently, I casually mentioned Reading Rainbow. A blank stare followed. Reading Rainbow, I reiterated. The…
A Beast of a Curriculum for a Monster of a Book: Frankenstein at 200
A Beast of a Curriculum for a Monster of a Book: Frankenstein at 200
Few books can help educators engage in more complex conversations about STEM than Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s fantastic tale of technological…