It’s difficult to predict which skills will be valuable in the future, and even more challenging to see the connection between our children’s interests and…
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Khan Academy is changing the way we learn. Their latest experiment, LearnStorm, is piloting in the Bay Area with support from Google.org. Watch as Sal…
HOST: Alexander Heffner GUEST: John Palfrey AIR DATE: 06/21/14 I’m Alexander Heffner, your new host on The Open Mind. For more than a half-century, my grandfather…
A quick update: Last year, we told you about Corey Olsen, an English Professor at Washington College, who started publishing online lectures on the writing of J.R.R.…
A summer course at the University of New Hampshire that uses the Harry Potter series to teach young students grammar and reading skills has prompted…
Over on Core77, Rain Noe discusses a sweeping international study by a team of Stanford and University of Munich researchers, who looked at all sorts…
Published on Mar 20, 2013 The rate of change in the world demands that we re-imagine and restructure the foundational learning relationship among students, teachers, and…
A recent dust-up between Wikipedia and Canada’s largest university raises questions about how collaborative the popular website that bills itself as “the free encyclopedia that…
Arizona Phoenix College math instructor James Sousa has been teaching math for 15 years at both the community college and K-12 levels. Over the years,…
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where…