Check out this generational video that answers a daughter's question, "So Dad, how do you like the iPad we got you?"
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Over the past ten years I have been struck by how Dr. Maria Montessori's understanding of the child was so powerful. It inspired me to express her gift in an article I wrote that was recently published in Montessori Life. Here is the article, "The Child Whisperer."
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Here's something for all educators to think about whether leading colleagues or modeling for students.
This great quote comes from Erika Andersen's article in Forbes, "Manage or Lead? Do Both."
"Great leaders and great managers listen well, are curious, manage their self-talk, and hold themselves accountable for moving the business forward."
Friday, 13 July 2012
Stumbling upon this Brian Crane comic on the "Pickles" section of the ArcaMax website, I asked, "Could this really happen?" ; )
Sunday, 8 July 2012
I write a column for Public School Montessorian, a quarterly publication for "ideas and information intended to improve the lives of children and adults with public Montessori programs." My most recent column, "Learning Flows When Kids Are in Their Element" talks about children being in their element when it comes to learning what interests them.
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In her book, Cathy N. Davidson author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn quoted from "Exactly How Much Are the Times A-Changin?" Newsweek, July 26, 2010, (p. 56).
"By one recent accounting, in the last decade we've gone from 12 billion e-mails sent each day to 247 billion e-mails, from 400,000 text messages to 4.5 billion, from 2.7 hours a week spent online to 18 hours a week online."
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