A recent study published in Nature examines the neurology behind the tendencies of urban dwellers to develop anxiety and eating disorders at higher rates than their rural brethren.
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Researchers have developed the first memory prosthetic device—a neural implant that, in rats, restored lost brain function and improved short-term memory retention.
School reform efforts across the country hang on the notion of annual teacher evaluations based heavily on student test scores. But if this process isn’t consistently accurate, it will get the wrong teachers fired and discourage talented people from entering the profession.
Today marks the start of the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s great scientific meetings. Many of the panels held in Vancouver […]
The working class job of tomorrow is going to be a digital job. The American economy can’t stay afloat and the workforce stay working unless we teach kids digital technology.
Some weeks ago, I wrote a piece on what education can learn from game design. Back then I focused on artificial intelligence. Two days ago, I read another interesting piece […]
Spring has sprung in here in New York City, stripping off our layers of winter clothes. The eye falls with pleasure on a pair of pretty feminine legs in a […]
Spring has sprung in here in New York City, stripping off our layers of winter clothes. The eye falls with pleasure on a pair of pretty feminine legs in a […]
Two months ago I had some serious problems with my web host which led to daily calls with the helpdesk. I soon found out that it was far better to […]
We’ve been getting bits and pieces of the lava flow from Nabro for the past few weeks, but some images from earlier this week reveal the full reach of the […]
We are currently living in the “learning decade,” according to entrepreneur Sam Herring. Here are some of the most exciting startups that are trying to capitalize on the new currency of ideas.
Egypt’s revolution took just 18 days to unseat Hosni Mubarak, in Yemen the process has been much, much longer. Earlier this week protesters passed the 3-month mark with no end […]
I received this recently: Dr. McLeod, I am a math teacher in [school district] and have attended two of your presentations (one last school year). I am wondering if there […]
Jean Jacques Rousseau called cities “…the abyss of the species“. Well, they may not be that bad, but with their crowding and competition and noisy get-ahead in-your-face rat race environments, […]
G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that — […]
Here’s a question for you… Let’s say that my daughter’s taking Geometry and the homework assignment from her textbook asks her to prove that the three perpendicular bisectors of the […]
From Roger Schank at The Pulse: n n [T]there is no evidence whatsoever, that accumulation of facts and background knowledge are the same thing. In fact, there is plenty of […]
After reading the David Brooks New York Times column that lauded the courage and guts of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan to actually put together an “adult” congressional budget, one that […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] Update: As of October 2010, I now have about 22,000 subscribers to this blog. Alter my calculations accordingly… According to Feedburner, I currently have about […]
Salman Khan envisions the kind of school he would like to send his own son to. In a way it resembles the one-room schoolhouses of yesteryear, where teachers and peers alike are empowered to act as mentors, humanizing the classroom.
What is the best strategy to learn / memorize? Taking a look at Amazon you will find a wide variety of books on that topic and I am pretty sure […]
So, you’re making your technology pitch to the school. You’ve just been to the conference and still feel the warm buzz of The Future, and you want the teachers to […]
Professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University, Brian Greene specializes in superstring theory and explains how he has come to see our universe as one among many.
I’m tired of going to school. I don’t mean the elementary school where I work. I actually like that. When I entered the classroom I was told that the state […]
THE PUSH begins today! What is THE PUSH? Glad you asked! Every single day for at least the next two weeks, we work together to identify excellent subject-specific blogs that are […]
The good news from the most comprehensive study ever done of gender and math performance? ‘No gender difference’ in scores among children in grades 2 through 11. [see research summary] […]
The first time I came across this new phenomenon was in my interview with Jeff Evans, one of the co-founders of MindSnacks back in August 2010. When I asked him […]
Two of my last posts were about video calls and augmented reality and a possible usage scenario of those technologies in education. Now, what would happen if we combined those […]
The Boston Globe reports on a determined principal, dedicated teachers, and an innovative reading program that have helped a school transform itself.
My latest roundup of links and tools… Do buildings matter? Jay Matthews wonders how much we should care about decrepit school buildings. Math matters Daniel de Vise provides an even-handed […]