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Modern romance: Gen-Y is late to the wedding, but wants marriage
Gen-Y is is rewriting modern romance as the path to marriage gets longer but more certain: Young people want more certainty before the wedding. When Amy Monticello and Jason Tucker… Read more
Home-schooling demographics change, expand
There was a time when Heather Kirchner thought mothers who home-schooled their children were only the types “who wore long skirts and praised Jesus and all that.” That was before… Read more
Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World | The GoodWork Project
For most young people today, engagement with new digital media is a routine aspect of life. Through computers, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, youth can blog, tweet, participate in… Read more
Project Zero
Project Zero is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Project Zero’s mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the… Read more
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
Terry Anderson and Jon Dron – Abstract This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this… Read more
What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media
By S. Craig Watkins – The debates about schools and social media are a subject of great public and policy interests. In reality, the debate has been shaped by one… Read more
A New Discipline and Bits of Semantics
by Dragan Gasevic – The talk, motivated by the present state of learning and education, identifies a need for a systematic change of the present preactice. via Learning Analytics… Read more
In the name of equality, anti-elitist teachers are betraying the hopes of the young.
Dumbing down of state education has made Britain more unequal than 25 years ago A controversy broke out on Twitter earlier this week about an article in the Times Educational… Read more
Teaching without powerpoint – Using a website creation tool
There’s lots to reflect on when you teach. Rarely do we get a chance or have the inclination to do this fully. For my role as a Learning Technologist in… Read more
Mayor rejects Alonso’s school-construction plan
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed concerns about her schools chief’s proposal to borrow $1.2 billion to fix Baltimore’s crumbling school buildings, touting her own more modest plan as realistic in her… Read more
