If you want to truly engage students, give up the reins - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning

If you want to truly engage students, give up the reins - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning.

From a presentation, McIntosh says that our happiest memories in school are of "making stuff", but that has little room in the curriculum.

Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

A liberal arts education, or technical training? Familiar faces stand for old ideas.

Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com

Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com

In praise of the short writing assignment, where students write two sentences selling an article of clothing on eBay.

The Full Wiki Makes Wikipedia a Deeper, More Citable Research Tool

The Full Wiki Makes Wikipedia a Deeper, More Citable Research Tool

Interesting Lifehacker post - http://lifehacker.com/#!5783901/the-full-wiki-makes-wikipedia-a-deeper-more-citable-research-tool

If you to to http://www.thefullwiki.org it helps you find quotable sentences from the Wikipedia sources even easier to find.

Information Literacy learning tool or plagiarism turbo-charger? Only time will tell.

Innovation in Africa tips « Design in Africa

Innovation in Africa tips « Design in Africa interesting ideas for social innovation.

I think "think and act big – don’t do anything that can’t reach a million people" really resonates with me. We have big problems, we need to think big to solve them.

Pointed to this from http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/social-innovation-learn - the Urgent Evoke project.

The Facts on Higher Order Thinking | Faculty Focus

The Facts on Higher Order Thinking | Faculty Focus looks at whether or not higher-order skills are taught in introductory classes or not. Do we need to know the facts before we can move higher on Bloom's Taxonomy? Or can we start before we know all the facts?

Two new projects

Elev8ed lets kids share videos about how they they feel about education, and what could be improved.

http://education.ted.com/ is a new sub-set of TED, where they are looking for education leaders to make even more inspiring and useful videos for use in education.