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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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I just finished the book, Innovators’ DNA, by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. The comprehensive interviews the authors completed told an interesting story about the qualities that innovative people and companies exhibit. One of the first questions the authors pose is: where do disruptive innovations come from? In part, they answer the question by looking…
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Project-based learning (PBL) has received a fair amount of attention in the education community in the past five years. The Buck Institute, an organization devoted to PBL professional development, has been working on promoting PBL for the past 15 years. Currently, they operate about 100 PBL workshops around the country to nearly 4000 educators. In…
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