The Educator's Notebook

“Insights from 200+ Years Of Personalized Learning”
Nature - 9/5/18

“Current initiatives to personalize learning in schools, while seen as a contemporary reform, actually continue a 200+ year struggle to provide scalable, mass, public education that also addresses the variable needs of individual learners. Indeed, some of the rhetoric and approaches reformers are touting today sound very familiar in this historical context. What, if anything, is different this time?”

When To Quit. (Or: When Grit And Persistence Aren’t Right)
Harvard Business Review - 9/28/18
On Curiosity: More Follow Up Questions = More Second Dates
New York Times - 9/23/18
“How To Help Teenagers Embrace Stress”
New York Times - 9/19/18

“Happily, studies also find that it’s not hard to convert people to the stress-is-enhancing perspective. To do this in my own work with adolescents, I liken the demands of school to a strength-training program.”

On The Healing Power Of Poetry: How Doctors Use Verse
Nautilus - 9/27/18

“One randomized clinical trial by researchers at the University of Maranhão studied the effect of passive listening to music or poetry on the pain, depression, and hope scores of 65 adult patients hospitalized in a cancer facility. They found that both types of art therapy produced similar improvements in pain intensity and depression scores. Only poetry, however, increased hope scores.”

Teacher- And Student-Centered Versions Of “Personalized Learning”
Larry Cuban - 9/27/18

“Let me be clear, I place no value for either end (or the middle) of the “personalized learning” continuum.”
Business School Stakeholders Reconsider The Case Method
Quartz - 9/24/18
Group Work: Better For Helping Students Reach Individual Goals
Hechinger Report - 9/24/18

Apple Watch: Suddenly A Major Breakthrough In Diagnostic Healthcare
Steve Blank - 9/26/18

“These two apps, the Electrocardiogram and the irregular heart rhythms, are serious health screening tools.”
What Machine Learning Can And Can’t Do For Teachers
EdSurge - 9/26/18

“I don’t see a child sitting in front of an Alexa and being taught, because there is a whole other set of cues they need to learn.”

Maps Of Magical And Literary Places
Guardian - 9/22/18
“It’s Never Too Late For Your Career To Peak”
Fast Company - 9/12/18
Activist Investing And The Dangers Of Myopic Leadership
New Yorker - 8/28/18

“Some of the most successful businesses to emerge in recent decades have staved off short-term pressures, forcing their investors to be patient with uncertainty and experimentation.”

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