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Education is one of society’s most important long-term investments. Like so many other important issues, schooling can be an incredibly controversial topic. Pretty much everyone agrees that some sort of education is vital, but after that the consensus breaks down: What should we be teaching children, exactly? And how should we teach them? In the presentation [...]
Here’s an intriguing proposition from toymaker Arvind Gupta: Could we use trash to build inexpensive learning tools for children? In this video from Ted.com, Gupta demonstrates how several of his toys are built. His passion is as impressive as his inventiveness. Seriously: This man is the MacGyver of toys. With nothing more than a few [...]
Blaming Gender: 5 Reasons Boys Are Slipping in School
by Cristen Conger | October 19, 2010
Canada and the United States share are common problem in schools these days. While girls are excelling like never before, the boys are falling behind. Educators have been tackling this issue for years now, even testing out sex-segregated classrooms to find out whether tailoring teaching to gender is more effective. Male students typically lag in overall grades and reading in particular (a learning gap that emerged in the early ’90s).
Blast from the past – Toddlers using computers, then and now
by Marshall Brain | April 8, 2010
This video from 1987 looks completely normal today. But if you had been there in 1987, it would have been amazing (shocking in fact) to see a child that young operating a computer. That’s because most computers of the day used command line interfaces and you had to be able to read and type to [...]
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