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What You Could Build With Every Lego Brick Ever Made

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:48:00 -0500

What You Could Build With Every Lego Brick Ever Made

LEGO stress test machine [full story]

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:46:00 -0500

LEGO stress test machine [full story]

"Do not subject my child to any test that doesn’t provide useful, same-day or next-day information..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:42:47 -0500

“Do not subject my child to any test that doesn’t provide useful, same-day or next-day information about performance.”

- The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests

"We must not only educate ourselves, but those around us on the difference between an assessment that..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:32:00 -0500

“We must not only educate ourselves, but those around us on the difference between an assessment that we use to elevate all learners, versus the kind we use to sort them.”

- Does the Common Core Demoralize Teachers?

Amazing LEGO insects and arthropods

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:22:00 -0500

Amazing LEGO insects and arthropods

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:25:00 -0600

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower

"When Americans selectively reject science, it handicaps us, as a nation, in a knowledge-based global..."

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:41:16 -0600

“When Americans selectively reject science, it handicaps us, as a nation, in a knowledge-based global economy.”

- A Science Teacher Draws the Line at Creation

"So, if you want your students to cheat less, talk less about students “cheating,” and more about..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:33:58 -0600

“So, if you want your students to cheat less, talk less about students “cheating,” and more about students being “cheaters” — and encourage them not to “be cheaters.””

- Restless Pedagogue: Talk About Cheaters, Not About Cheating

"Parents are sending you the best kids they got. They’re not saving the good ones at home."

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:47:41 -0500

“Parents are sending you the best kids they got. They’re not saving the good ones at home.”

"The forces we engage are relentless. Gravity is on duty all the time."

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:45:29 -0500

“The forces we engage are relentless. Gravity is on duty all the time.”

- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why By Laurence Gonzales

"Staying put was safe, but it didn’t cut it emotionally."

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:43:23 -0500

“Staying put was safe, but it didn’t cut it emotionally.”

- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why By Laurence Gonzales

"To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason...."

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:35:15 -0500

“To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason. One way to promote that balance is through humor.”

- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why By Laurence Gonzales

"…if people perceive that cheating is running rampant, what are the chances that next..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:28:50 -0500

“…if people perceive that cheating is running rampant, what are the chances that next year’s students will adopt even more lenient moral standards…”

- Classroom Ethics 101 by Dan Ariely

"Rather than raise the public funds we need to educate our children, we choose instead to sell their..."

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:17:30 -0500

“Rather than raise the public funds we need to educate our children, we choose instead to sell their time and rent their minds to Burger King and Mountain Dew.”

- Michael J. Sandel in What Money Can’t Buy

"If you had done a problem of this kind, then by definition, this would not be a problem."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:22:20 -0500

“If you had done a problem of this kind, then by definition, this would not be a problem.”

- Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques

5th Ave Frogger

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:30:00 -0500

5th Ave Frogger

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:19:00 -0500

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working

"…I feel more attached to my old one because I invested effort in fixing it and feel a sense of..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:38:28 -0500

““…I feel more attached to my old one because I invested effort in fixing it and feel a sense of ownership of it.””

- Use it up, wear it out, make it do!

Muppets sing “Danny Boy”

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:50:58 -0500

Muppets sing “Danny Boy”

"The publisher knows it’s bad. And yet, it doesn’t seem to matter. That’s because the sales and..."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:12:00 -0600

“The publisher knows it’s bad. And yet, it doesn’t seem to matter. That’s because the sales and marketing team is already at work developing videos, brochures, webinars, catalog copy, and whatever else their bloated budgets will allow in order to sell what doesn’t actually exist—a quality product.”

- Afraid of Your Child’s Math Textbook? You Should Be.

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What You Could Build With Every Lego Brick Ever Made

LEGO stress test machine [full story]

"Do not subject my child to any test that doesn’t provide useful, same-day or next-day information..."

"We must not only educate ourselves, but those around us on the difference between an assessment that..."

Amazing LEGO insects and arthropods

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower

"When Americans selectively reject science, it handicaps us, as a nation, in a knowledge-based global..."

"So, if you want your students to cheat less, talk less about students “cheating,” and more about..."

"Parents are sending you the best kids they got. They’re not saving the good ones at home."

"The forces we engage are relentless. Gravity is on duty all the time."

"Staying put was safe, but it didn’t cut it emotionally."

"To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason...."

"…if peo­ple per­ceive that cheat­ing is run­ning ram­pant, what are the chances that next..."

"Rather than raise the public funds we need to educate our children, we choose instead to sell their..."

"If you had done a problem of this kind, then by definition, this would not be a problem."

5th Ave Frogger

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working

"…I feel more attached to my old one because I invested effort in fixing it and feel a sense of..."

Muppets sing “Danny Boy”

"The publisher knows it’s bad. And yet, it doesn’t seem to matter. That’s because the sales and..."

"…if people perceive that cheating is running rampant, what are the chances that next..."