Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search | Magazine

Researchers found that “students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine.”

via Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search | Magazine.

Student Art at Bonner Middle

While waiting for the cafeteria tables to be set up at Bonner for an English middle and high school scaffolding meeting just now, I spied this awesome mural on the commons wall. I’ve taught several of these student artists in the last couple of years, and one is in my class right now.

‘How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn’

http://dmlcentral.net/blog/whitney-burke/how-brain-science-attention-will-transform-way-we-live-work-and-learn

An interesting interview with a self-appointed “techno-realist.”

TEDxDesMoines – Angela Maiers – You Matter

Five Things Students Say They Want From Education

http://www.fluency21.com//blogpost.cfm?blogID=2123

Quotation Inspiration: Searching for the Perfect Word

“To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

- H. L. Mencken

Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

• poetictouch: videos on Dailymotion

  tags: videos poetry

• Download Youtube Videos in HD! Download Youtube, Megavideo, Dailymotion, Facebook, Myspace, Vimeo, Metacafe, Spike, Break, Current Videos & more!

  tags: youtube downloads safe videos

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Quotation Inspiration: A Better Life Through Education

“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought —that is to be educated.”
~Edith Hamilton

Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)

• From the Trenches: A Lesson Plan – To Kill a Mockingbird

  Six project options to serve as final assessment for novel study. Focuses especially on Civil Rights Movement, prejudice, and legal system.

  tags: mockingbird projects assessment lesson plan novel literature

• MyRead Guide – Cooperative Reading As Simple As ABC

  tags: literature-circles cooperative-learning reading

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The State of Education (infographic)

Just wow. Especially the part about “teachers vs. lawyers” and the comparisons of credentials lost.

Via: OnlineEducation.net