Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to ‘Stand and Deliver’ Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79. The subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” [...]
Posted in Computers and Software, Social Issues and Ideas, Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill Alan Brightman who ran the Disabilities Solutions Group at Apple did a lot of work early on in this particular area. Reminds me of the presentation and article David Clark, Monika Koethnig and I did a while ago: Digital Independence which we did long before the current [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Mar 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Wonderful story, nicely produced by Jerry Bowen at CBS. The kicker is that Kramer is dyslexic and his struggle with that no doubt routed him into doing things with his hands. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in News on Mar 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Small California town fears birth defects linked to toxic waste It’s like Erin Brockovich never happened.
Posted in Learning Materials, Reading, Writing, and Math on Mar 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Math Worksheets World Free math worksheets by email or download.
Posted in Computers and Software on Mar 18th, 2010 3 Comments »
Kindle for Mac Install this free application on your Macintosh and connect to your Kindle account at Amazon to read books, just like on a kindle. Frankly, I’m amazed it took them this long to do this. I hope Apple does it with their iBooks application.
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Building a Better Teacher But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
The iPad is a natural for these kinds of books and activities. This is a mock up of some ideas for interactive books and learning tools for the iPad. Great stuff. [via Sanford Shapiro]