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Yesterday, we heard from Chris Cannon, a 2011-2012 Teacher of the Year recipient and economics teacher at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, GA. He shared with us his work on test corrections, “How Re-Dos and Corrections Can Improve Your Teaching?” (click here for his presentation on his website). The 20 cohort members in attendance were very engaged and…
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I watched this very interesting TED talk this afternoon, Massive-scale online collaboration. Luis von Ahn, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, “builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.” He calls this work, Human Computation. In this talk he describes his team’s research that resulted in…
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I recently watched a Ted video that showcased the work of three students who won the Google Science Fair competition. It was recommended by Bo Adams at Its About Learning, PBL Examples, courtesy of TEDxWomen. It is really a very interesting and eye-opening piece about three young girls who challenged themselves to master something…
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Here are some interesting statistics related to education in the United States. Statistics were gathered by entering a prompt into Google and finding the most recent statistics from the most reputable source, either government, foundation, research organization, or national newspaper reports. In 2003, there were over 120,000 schools, public and private, in the US. Education…
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There was a recent article that appeared in the News and Analysis section of the November 18, 2011 edition of Science Magazine entitled, NSF Creates Fast Rrack for Out-of-the-Box Proposals. The article discusses how NSF Director Subra Suresh has launched a new initiative to support innovative or “unorthodox” ideas through a new $24 million program…
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