United Nations Association Film Festival comes to our neighborhood October 17th-25th featuring 50 documentaries from 50 countries with the theme Energy & The World. A special event aimed at students will be held at Eastside Prep on Tuesday, October 20th from 4:15-7:40pm with a discussion with the filmmakers following Speaking in Tongues and Prom Night in Mississippi What a great opportunity!!!
Geography is Destiny Read this short yet thought provoking article by NPR education correspondent John Merrow about the growing digital divide.
Inverting Blooms Taxonomy Here's a quote from this interesting article about teaching history for understanding: "That’s because in history, as in other disciplines, the aim is not merely to collect what is known, but to learn how to think about problems in a new way."
“Knowing the world means understanding the chaos and seeing the meaning.” This quote is from a talk titled Knowledge in the Age of Abundance given by David Weingerger from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Read a summary of his speech.
It's National Reading Group Month! Check out some of their suggested titles.
Explore this beautiful new interface for LIFE magazine's photo archives.
A recommendation to check out study guides on Shmoop has appeared in this blog before, and now they have a music section. Shmoop is a website that supplements popular high school curriculum and literature with breezy yet informative summaries. Unlike a lot of "educational" information on the Web, they source all their material and their ads aren't too intrusive.
Friday, October 9, 2009
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