Education:
David Warlick is a local blogger and educator. We first met at the Podcastercon a couple of years ago, then at several blogger meetups, and finally last January at the second Science Blogging Conference where David moderated a session on...
Posted on May 12, 2008 10:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, this post is almost ten days old, but I just now found some time to actually read the 35 comments on it as well as what others wrote about it on their blogs. I guess it is time to...
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Posted on March 16, 2008 4:55 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[rant]So, if you organize a study-group online instead of in meat-space, the old fogies who still remember dinosaurs go all berserk. A student is threatened by expulsion for organizing a Facebook group for studying chemistry. Moreover, as each student got...
Posted on March 8, 2008 11:16 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out! In related news,...
Posted on March 6, 2008 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In 1986, 22-year-old Boston Celtics forward Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose. This week, DrugMonkey argued that Bias' death--as opposed to educational programs like DARE--was the major reason why self-reported rates of cocaine use by 20-year-olds dropped from 20%...
Posted on March 5, 2008 8:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are three interesting, thought-provoking articles on Open Education today: The Digital Commons - Left Unregulated, Are We Destined for Tragedy? An Interview with Ahrash Bissell of the Creative Commons The Open Digital Commons - A Truly Endless Array of...
Posted on February 26, 2008 9:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want....
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want....
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:49 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Florida Board of Education passed new science standards....
Posted on February 19, 2008 4:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Cafe on Teenage Brains : Teenagers sometimes act as though they were from a different planet. On Tuesday February 19, the Museum of Natural Sciences will host a science cafe entitled "Altered States: Inside the Teenage Brain" at Tir...
Posted on February 18, 2008 6:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I promised the other day, I went to Carrboro Century Center this afternoon (right after meeting with Anton around the corner) to see the Island Projects designed by the Chapel Hill High School students of Rob Greenberg. I did...
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Posted on February 10, 2008 11:24 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you read my blog you must be aware how enchanted I am with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Unfortunately, at the last moment something came up, so the delegation of two teachers and six students could not make it...
Posted on February 10, 2008 11:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Check them out: Who Are the Top Edubloggers? Education Blog List...
Posted on January 28, 2008 10:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel comes the announcement that SPARC has declared the winners of the first SPARKY Awards for student-generated videos on the theme...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 9:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom, this initiative is really exciting: Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online Cape Town,...
Posted on January 22, 2008 11:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should...
Posted on January 11, 2008 8:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I would like to use this occasion to thank all the people, anonymous and otherwise, who donated to my challenge on DonorsChoose last month. You donated a total of $1,518 affecting the math and science education of 471 students in...
Posted on November 5, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is just a couple of more days left and my challenge is still at 50% (just 6 donors!) so I am panicking. There are several projects that are completely funded and several others that are still far away from...
Posted on October 30, 2007 12:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is less than one week left and my challenge is still at 45% (just 5 donors!). All the relevant information is here. The other day, Janet and I participated in a silent auction at the ASIS&T meeting. You go...
Posted on October 25, 2007 12:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I started teaching my BIO101 Lab this morning again. But this was the first: two of the students said: "Hey Mr.Z, we looked around the Web and learned a lot about you - A Blog Around The Clock, The Magic...
Posted on October 13, 2007 11:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The DonorsChoose fundraiser is in full swing here on Scienceblogs.com. As always, Janet's blog is the Information Center for the drive, and you can also check Dave's graphs as well. As you know, Seed Media Group is matching $15,000 of...
Posted on October 12, 2007 4:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another thing I will also have to miss - the Inaugural Event of the 2007-2008 Pizza Lunch Season of the Science Communicators of North Carolina (SCONC), on October 24th at Sigma Xi Center (the same place where we'll have the...
Posted on October 9, 2007 6:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The news came from high above that the Seed Media Group Science Literacy Grants program will match your donations up to $15,000. So, at this point in the fundraiser, every dollar you donate is worth two! So, check out my...
Posted on October 9, 2007 10:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first week of the DonorsChoose fund-drive is up and the donations are coming in rapidly to a variety of school projects via my SciBlings' challenges. You can check out all the projects picked by my SciBlings here and my...
Posted on October 8, 2007 9:50 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, I see that several of my sciblings are offering special incentives to their readers who donate through DonorsChoose. So, what could I offer? Should I place my beautiful banner on some Cafe Press merchandise? Give me some ideas....
Posted on October 2, 2007 11:28 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Danica gave a presentation at the Waag Society conference in Amsterdam on new concepts and ideas of learning. She put up a wiki and her slides (worth checking out): The focus of this event was on the theme of challenges...
Posted on October 2, 2007 10:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Perhaps you remember June last year when a bunch of us sciencebloggers held a fund drive for science education through DonorsChoose. Well, we are doing it again this year, more of us, and for a longer period of time -...
Posted on October 1, 2007 9:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If anyone shows this to my son, he'll lead a revolution. Like those wonderful, patriotic, thinking students at Boulder High School, who penned their own, most excellent version of the Pledge of Allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the flag and...
Posted on October 1, 2007 9:41 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Janet and Abel alert me that Six Apart (yup, those folks who made MoveableType on which I am typing right now) are supporting DonorsChoose, by issuing a bloggers challenge: "You can request a gift certificate worth $30 at donorschoose@sixapart.com. Request...
Posted on September 29, 2007 10:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From the Independent: The head has identified research which says that teenagers would be more likely to take in what they are learning if they started school two hours later. He is considering changing the school timetable for sixth-formers as...
Posted on September 18, 2007 12:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There have been a couple of recent posts about textbooks lately. Jim Fiore started it all with a look at the textbook business from the perspective of the authors and students, looking primarily at the problem of money. One sentence...
Posted on September 17, 2007 7:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It will be on October 9-11, 2007 in Indianapolis: The Open Minds Conference is the first national K-12 gathering for teachers, technicians and educational leaders to share and explore the benefits of open source in education. Virtual Learning Environments that...
Posted on September 15, 2007 10:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A few days ago I wrote about the Zoo School in Asheboro, NC. It is even better than I thought - I got in touch with their lead teacher and she told me that all of their students have laptops...
Posted on September 14, 2007 7:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A few days ago PZ Myers announced he will have some special guest bloggers on Pharyngula soon. While the first commenters were guessing Big Names, like Dawkins, my comment was: "I am hoping for your students....". A little later, PZ...
Posted on September 14, 2007 7:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the news today, I received a link to this press release: Open education resource site HippoCampus launches: The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education has launched an interactive homework help Web site funded by the William and Flora Hewlett...
Posted on September 14, 2007 6:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Come see Sapolsky, Deacon, de Waal, Rosenberg, Dennett, Fox Keller and others talk about what it means to be human (or chimp).
Posted on September 14, 2007 9:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you were here last June, you'll remember the scienceblogs.com-wide action to fund science and math teaching projects in underfunded schools through DonorsChoose. This year, we'll do it again. There is twice as much of us, and we will also...
Posted on September 8, 2007 7:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I rarely wish to be 14 again, but I certainly did when I read this news today, that N.C. Zoo and the Asheboro City Schools have just started something called AHS Zoo School. As Russ Williams explains: "Students have unprecedented...
Posted on September 8, 2007 2:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Key findings of a new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC exploring the online behaviors of U.S. teens and 'tweens show: * 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as...
Posted on August 15, 2007 2:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SPARC just announced the Mind Mashup: A Video Contest: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the launch of the first annual SPARC Discovery Awards, a contest to promote the open exchange of information. Mind Mashup, the...
Posted on July 25, 2007 6:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday, a few of my friends from PLoS and I went to the Exploratiorium to see the Iron Science Teacher show. Lots of pictures (and a little bit of running commentary) under the fold:...
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Posted on July 14, 2007 10:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I had a great pleasure recently to be able to interview Senator - and now Democratic Presidential candidate - John Edwards for my blog. The interview was conducted by e-mail last week. As I am at work and unable to...
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Posted on July 9, 2007 8:59 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Books: "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. It's 2025 - What happened to science, politics and journalism? Well, you know I'd be intrigued. After all, a person whose taste in science fiction I trust (my brother) told me to read this...
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Posted on July 2, 2007 10:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Fine in practice, but how does it work in theory?" This headline (in a French paper, of course), prompted Sally Green to pen a fine, fine post - an Obligatory Reading of the Day - about class, education, the psychology...
Posted on June 13, 2007 3:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Renegade Evolution has collected the links for yesterday's Blogging For Sex Education day....
Posted on June 5, 2007 12:04 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Remember to Blog For Sex Education. Put this logo on top of your post if you like. Then paste your permalink in the comments of this post and Renegade Evolution will put together a linkfest....
Posted on June 3, 2007 2:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's simple. Just write a post on June 4th that has something to do with sex education. Add this logo on top of your post and leave your permalink in the comments of the logo post. Spread the word.......
Posted on May 25, 2007 7:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Survivor Testimonies Engage Students in Holocaust History: Through a program funded by the Claims Conference, a group of 8th graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who had never before learned of the Holocaust found themselves deeply affected by these first-person narratives during...
Posted on May 2, 2007 5:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...someone (guess who?) will feel persecuted: .... One student objected that I was singling out Christianity. Another objected to what I was implying about the religion. I'm not sure I even used the word "Christian" in my description of the...
Posted on April 4, 2007 9:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The case is made by an atheist, of course - Amanda - but the important part of the post is the explanation of why is it impossible in the current educational system in the USA and why is the current...
Posted on March 19, 2007 9:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am so glad to see that conversations started face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference are now continuing online (see the bottom of the ever-growing linkfests here and here). While some are between science bloggers, as expected, others are between...
Posted on January 31, 2007 1:17 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Parenting is hard. Are you ready (re-posted from October 20, 2005)...
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Posted on January 30, 2007 11:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Most of our anti-Creationist battles are over efforts to infuse Christian religion into K-12 education. One common battlefield is the courtroom where our side has (so far, until/unless the benches get filled with more clones of Priscilla Owen) won. But...
Posted on January 24, 2007 9:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 102nd Carnival of Education is up on Dr.Homeslice Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition is up on Dewey's Treehouse...
Posted on January 17, 2007 8:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I did not have time to go through all the posts on all of today's carnivals, but Larry Moran discovered a real gem on today's Carnival of Education. Check the comments as well. Then come up with your own system....
Posted on December 20, 2006 11:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Carnival Of Education: Week 97 is up on Education Wonks. Carnival of Homeschooling - Week 50 is up on Apollo's Academy....
Posted on December 13, 2006 8:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ms. SuperScience loves to include anecdotes in her science classes. Now she wonders, how much personal information may be over the line. An interesting ethical (and pedagogical) question. And some creepy comments - go add some more of those!...
Posted on December 12, 2006 9:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Warlick and Sicheii Yazhi comment on the next week's TIME cover story, How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century: This week the conversation will burst onto the front page, when the New Commission on the Skills...
Posted on December 11, 2006 11:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David has some great ideas: I suggested that the best thing we might do with video games is to figure out what it is about video games that makes them such a compelling learning engine, and try to integrate those...
Posted on December 5, 2006 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Teaching carnival #17 is up on silver in sf...
Posted on December 4, 2006 10:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The third international Edublog Awards are now open for nominations....
Posted on November 24, 2006 11:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Brian says that College Leaders should blog, commenting on this NYT article. Sure, there are pros and cons, a steep learning curve and the potentially huge benefits along with the risk. But in the 21st century, it just has to...
Posted on November 22, 2006 4:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two years ago, there was quite a brouhaha in the media when Serbian minister for education decided to kick Darwin out of schools. The whole affair lasted only a few days - the public outrage was swift and loud and...
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Posted on November 21, 2006 10:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 93rd Carnival of Education is up on What It's Like on the Inside. The 46th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Sprittibee....
Posted on November 15, 2006 12:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
92nd edition of the Carnival of Education is up on NYC Educator Carnival of Homeschooling - Library Edition is up on SpunkyHomeSchool....
Posted on November 8, 2006 6:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 91st Edition of the Carnival of Education is up on The Median Sib. The 44th edition of Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Why Homeschool....
Posted on November 1, 2006 11:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A short but good article by my schools' President (April 25, 2006, also here)....
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Posted on October 26, 2006 11:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I just got the teaching schedule for Spring, so I decided to follow up on last week's post by putting, under the fold, a series of short posts I wrote when I taught the last time, musing about teaching in...
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Posted on October 19, 2006 1:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mark Pruett wrote something I heartily agree with: Raise children with a wild streak: A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics stresses the importance of childhood playtime. It reinforces my own beli
