The Educator's Notebook

Towards Interdisciplinarity: Mathematician Addresses World Problem
Politico - 9/13/17

"Part of the problem, Loladze was finding, lay in the research world itself. Answering the question required an understanding of plant physiology, agriculture and nutrition―as well as a healthy dollop of math.”
A Good Discussion About Personalized Learning & Tech In Schools
EdSurge - 9/12/17

"And so, one of the benefits of having a teacher who has a more global view of the subject is that they can push you and direct you in ways that keep your brain in the red zone. That's one aspect I think where teachers are super valuable. I'm not sure it's even possible for students to provoke themselves in the ways that teachers can provoke those students.”

What Good Pre-K Teaching Looks Like
KQED - 9/15/17

"Effective pre-K classrooms teach self-regulation through songs and routines; picture prompts can remind children of the steps in a process. Skilled preschool teachers have strategies for redirecting student behavior and use language that provides instruction.”

A System For Managing And Integrating (The Right) New Ideas
Steve Blank - 9/14/17

"Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. All of this would occur before any new idea, tech or problem hit engineering.”
Great Teachers Need Great Administrators [Via Theater]
American Theatre - 9/11/17

The Internet Is Not The Real World, But It’s Still Meaningful
Wired - 9/1/17

"Looking at a screen is not living. It’s a concentrated decoding operation that requires the keen, exhausting vision of a predator and not the soft focus that allows all doors of perception to swing open… The trick is to read technology instead of being captured by it… Paradoxically, framing the internet as a text to be read, not a life to be led, tends to break, without effort, its spell.”

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