The Guardian has a piece by 16 year-old Orli Vogt-Vincent about “STEM subject snobbery,” and how the emphasis on science, technology, education and maths* leads us to both underfund
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Westmont College, a Christian liberal arts college in Southern California, is going to try to measure the impact of international education
I'm going up to Edmonton, Canada to do a keynote at Convergence 2014, a conference on educational technology. I hadn't written the book with this audience in mind,
Last week I spent several days on the road, on a whirlwind trip to the East Coast to talk about contemplative computing and The Distraction Addiction. It was
In light of my recent post on the Penn English class on “Wasting Time on the Internet,” Northwestern student Lucas Matney’s complaint that “Northwestern fails to offer 21st
From a class on “Wasting time on the Internet” at University of Pennsylvania: Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus
Courtney Shove, who took the pictures at my Santa Catalina talk, has a nice write-up of the event. My own post about it is here.
No, it’s not a smartphone made of noodles (though that would be awesome); it’s a Danish project for reducing smartphone distraction in the classroom. It’s super-simple: students come
Saturday I was at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, talking about kids, parenting, schools, and contemplative computing (a riff on my book The Distraction Addiction). Photo: Courtney Shove,
Ohio State communications professor Jesse Fox, whose work I talk about in my book, explains “Why I don’t allow devices in my classes.” If you’re a teacher, you