Watch Rome Rise, Fall, and Rise Again in a Three-Minute 3D Timelapse
Scholars disagree on when, exactly, Rome fell. But if you watch the new video from City 3D Timelapse above, you’ll understand the lack of debate on the question of whether it fell. Around the turn of ...
AI in Teaching: What the Science of Learning Already Tells Us
Few topics in higher education generate as much debate right now as the role artificial intelligence in all aspects of teaching and learning. Faculty listservs, teaching centers and national conferenc...
I run an edtech platform I hope you barely use
When we don’t confine learning to one classroom but share it across a department or district, we enable systemic change. Technology can facilitate this.
Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More
Sir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and ...
What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It
Latin is a language As dead as dead can be; It killed the Romans long ago, And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, but interest in ancien...
What Will It Look Like If Investment in Learner Wallets Pays Off?
What if a 12-year-old's sketching habit, a 19-year-old's gap year travels, and a 45-year-old's volunteer coordination all counted as verifiable learning? In a new piece for Getting Smart, Mason Pashia...
What 500 doorsteps taught me about getting kids back to school
I know the feeling when a letter from school shows up at the house. Nobody opens one of those smiling. Most of the time, the letter tells a family something they already know and nothing about what th...
In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”
Any reader of Victorian literature will wonder how much a ha’penny was actually worth in those days. For a little more than a year at the very end of that period, it could buy you a cup of coffee, coc...
Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life
Two of the books that most shaped American culture both happened to bear the nickname “The Big Book.” While the second of these, the A.A. Manual, published in 1939, changed the country with 12-Step re...
Leading With Your Heart and Guarding It Too: Lessons on Sustainability from Fifteen Years of School Leadership
Leadership Begins with the Heart For 15 years, I tried to be the kind of school leader I would have wanted, which was one who met everyone’s needs all the time. I believed leadership begins with kindn...
We’re Teaching Kids to Read. Are We Teaching Them to Think?
When an 11-year-old gets a polished ChatGPT answer faster than his parent can form a thoughtful one, something important comes into focus: access to information was never going to be the hard part. In...
The power of one: How the school librarian can help schools do more with less
Technology initiatives, curriculum mandates, instructional frameworks, new programs, new platforms, new expectations, and professional development. Every year — and sometimes every month — something e...
Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed i...
Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thoug...
What happened to Finnish education?
By OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher For much of the first two decades of this century, if … More