June 2011 Blog Posts (7)

JOHN HATTIE has spent his life studying the studies to find out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up.

Professor Hattie, appointed this year as the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, says teachers need to stop spending 80 per cent of their time in class talking and start listening.

''When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place,'' he told a conference of educators at Parramatta…

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Very quietly and almost invisibly, on post 546 of a very old thread, the owner of ScubaBoard, the largest forum in the world devoted to scuba diving, announced that the lawsuit filed the year before against the board and 101 of its "John Doe" participants had been settled.

ScubaBoard had been sued by someone whose business had been severely…

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I spent the afternoon with the future, and he was motiviated by Legos, math, music, science and an encouraging mom.  I met with the young robot scientist Matt Bunting the day after he was honored as Student of the Year by EE Times.  Here's an excerpt, video and photo -- link to the full story here: Meet the modern day Da Vinci Designs Smart Spider http://intel.ly/lfxzqT.

 

It's "A Bug's…

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I am republishing here a post I did recently with an interview with Clay Shirky. It is related to my research on the myths of Teaching and learning, technology & media. I am copying it here, but the video of the interview (as well as the original summary) is here: An Interview with Clay Shirky.

 

You can also access the series of posts on the Myths here: …

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With the renewed emphasis on the establishment of Free Schools and Academies in England the trend towards school based leadership is firmly in place. This demands a new type of Head Teacher/Principal; one with multiple skills in leadership over and above the normal intructional leadership skills. How do we address this new challenge in school leadership development by thinking globally (drawing from the best practices in the world) but acting locally (focusing on the unique needs of schools in… Continue

Moore’s Law has been around for 46 years. It’s a descriptor for the trend we’ve seen in the development of computer hardware for decades, with no sign of slowing down, where the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.



The law is named after Gordon Moore, who described this pattern in 1965. He would know a thing or two about integrated circuits. He co-founded Intel in 1968.



Moore has said in recent years that there’s about…

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The National Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—are committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible. Since 1994 we have offered “Read for Free” options for almost all our titles. In addition, we have been offering free downloads of most of our titles to everyone and of all titles to readers in the developing world. We are now going one step further. Effective June 2nd, PDFs of… Continue