Step into the Social Media Classroom a growing resource of all things blogosphere, Web 2.0, and social media. This website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future ... Read full entry

If plotting computer game strategy was considered a science, would more people take more interest in high-school science? One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn't about facts. It's about the quest for facts - the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets ... Read full entry

I'm a little out of touch with the required reading lists in Australian high schools, but was surprised to hear that J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye is still part of the syllabus in US high schools. Anne Trubek thinks it is time to retire Salinger's classic, and suggests some alternatives. Sure, J.D. Salinger's novel was edgy and controversial when teachers first put it on their syllabi. ... Read full entry

Yes, some people find the arts degree a waste of three or four years of tertiary level education. I prefer to think of them making for a versatile starting point to then go in any direction you want.* Like, "I have an arts degree and the gift of the gab, I will go places." First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will ... Read full entry

The New York School of Visual Arts has announced an Interaction Design course commencing next year. While the program itself sounds all encompassing, of real interest to me though are some of the staff being considered to make up the Interaction Design faculty, which reads more like the web design A-list than anything else. While the curricula sounds solid enough, the potential faculty is the bigger news: "A portion of ... Read full entry

The Girl Effect: invest in a girl and she will do the rest.