The Design School at Stanford is doing some interesting stuff. You can find it at: http://dschool.stanford.edu/k12/index.php
The K-12 Lab started with a question: Why is it that all students start kindergarten with innate creative confidence, but few of them still have it when they graduate from high school? The lab’s work centers on [...]
Booknotes for Clay Shirky’s latest book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. This book is certainly worth a read. (My notes in red, text in black are direct quotes.)
One thing that makes the current age remarkable is that we can now treat free time as a general social asset that [...]
I’m hoping that this will be more than just another blog post. If you think it makes sense, please share it with others. If you can get this idea in front of the right eyes, you deserve all the credit. Thanks.
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Would you be willing to walk 30 yards to [...]
Is the hyper-linked text we commonly read today diminishing our ability to understand? Are all the distractors available on our screens bringing us down?
Nicholas Carr writes in Wired magazine:
Dozens of studies by psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators point to the same conclusion: When we go online, we enter an environment that [...]
The Gulf oil spill, is at the heart of the matter, a design flaw. I’m not alluding to BP’s oil extraction technology either. Certainly, it had an important role to play but it’s not the whole story, or even a central part of it. The story is bigger. And like most [...]
Okay. It’s obvious this guy has had some amazing teachers–one of them being nature. If you’ve spent any time on this blog, you know that I consider nature the most impressive teacher around. And I’m not talking about prancing-ponies-playing-around-in-green-meadows kind of amazing teacher. I’m talking about billions of years of research and design. I’m talking [...]
We like to share ideas, we like to discuss them, and we like to see what other people are thinking. Today’s “two way” web has made this easier. When it comes to books however, our ability for participatory involvement–the kind we see in a blog post or online newspaper article–is quite limited. Sure, we can [...]
How are we doing as educators when it comes to teaching media literacy? It’s a topic of much debate. Most people would agree that there’s a need to teach it, but we don’t always agree on what “it” is. Our social media, deep digital toolbox, and ability to publish quickly and cheaply, help produce hoaxes, [...]
“If success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… How would I be? What would I do?”
-Buckminster Fuller
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.
The best commercially viable solar panels sit atop buildings and houses converting about 20% of the sunlight that falls onto them into electricity. In the world’s most cutting-edge research labs, scientists are making panels that are about 40% efficient. These are some of the best solar panels that have ever been made.
Or are they?
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