Meditation 1 -- from
a high school that had a “thought of the day” session six times a week
(“morning meditation”). TSenn (track 5),
ESenn (track 11), Jennie Hinde’s charity (track 12). Christopher Reynolds reads a JC meditation
(“our lives”). Audio CD.
Anecdotes
includes more “thoughts of the day” plus two anecdotes by a headmaster’s wife (EWatts). Audio CD.
Dennis Littky (NPR)
is an education pioneer.
His hallmark
school is called Met Center in Providence,
Rhode Island.
Several TV shows have been done about his
school.
His
phrase, “Education is everybody’s business,” captures the ideal situation where
many people in the community make a local school part of their lives by serving
as mentors to teenagers. Audio CD.
JC Society
includes some recordings from an online meeting held 10 October 2010. Audio CD.
JC Speech, with
remembrances of Gordon Dyke and descriptions of Ben Udy’s school in Honduras.
Audio CD
Steve Jobs (track 5
and 6) speaks at the commencement at Stanford University
(they appear in reverse order, so listen to track 6 first, then track 5). I visited Frida Kahlo school in October 2009
and interviewed Enrique Gonzalez
(tracks 7-9). Audio CD.
Dan Pink, Ken
Robinson, Sugata Mitra: Three
pioneers describe aspects of education in lectures pulled from Youtube. Audio CD.
Assessments (a
conversation by phone on 29 July and 3 August) – If you haven’t heard about
“alternative assessments,” this CD will bring you into the world of
portfolios. Finland is a global leader in the use of tests that tend to
build useful skills like curiosity, critical thinking, entrepreneurship and
initiative, and collaboration. You might
find these talks useful if you follow the work of Tony Wagner, the Harvard
researcher who claims that there are 7 global skills (including communication,
learning how to access and analyze information and agility and adaptability).
Statistics, not Calculus: From a review of the video: The following TED video, given by mathemagician and professor Arthur Benjamin embodies the best idea I’ve heard about math education in a LONG time. Perhaps ever. Just as I recently posted about how games like backgammon embody the 21st century in replacement of games like chess for the 20th, statistics is the central branch of mathematics for the 21st century rather than the calculus centric view of the 20th century. If you’re into math and math education, this will probably be the best 3 minutes you’ll spend today. http://www.logicnest.com/archives/377 (As a math teacher, Steve McCrea has witnessed and experienced the pain of learning calculus and recommends this video)
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