Oakland Mom
community + play + learning + tech
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There’s an awesome K-12 charter school down in your area, called Nea Community Learning Center.
https://sites.google.com/a/neaclc.org/homepage
Here are their values:
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The turning of the stars brings a time when my secret can bring you immortality.
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Nice to see that Oakland Unified is taking the approach of keeping the majority of their veteran teachers rather than laying them off wholesale when they undergo reform. An Oakland school, transformed from the inside out.
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You often hear of academics who live in a bubble, but that’s not what this is about. Peter Theil (the neocon hedge fund manager/venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and sits on the board of Facebook) is talking about a bubble in the higher ed market.
So what is a billionaire investor guy to do? Poke some holes in the “must-go-to-Ivy-League” assumptions, and start your own higher ed program. Create a competition where you offer $100K to a kid under 20 to drop out of college and start his or her own company. Provide mentorship and resources and get the best minds out of academia and into the the work force.
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Author Judy Willis used to be a neurologist. She switched careers to become a teacher after examining one too many kids who everyone assumed were ADHD, only to find that they were fine neurologically. The problem was that these kids were bored. And we all know what happens when a brain gets bored: it shuts down or gets hyperactive.So rather than medicate, Dr Willis made it her focus to really understand how the brain learns. Turns out, it doesn’t learn when it’s under stress, nor does it learn when it’s bored.
Good stuff: A Neurologist Makes the Case for Video Games as a Learning Tool
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Start off by not making a game that’s “educational” at all.
Great post by Andy Russell, founder of Launchpad Toys, creators of the game Toontastic, a digital storytelling app.
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Woot! I’m first in my own blog! It’s been a while since I’ve done any blogging. Feels good to be back.
