100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers
classroom20.com - Tools of the Trade.Oh the joy of the first week of school. Nothing like going with mom to the store and buying your new clothes, school supplies and Snoopy lunch box....
Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world
youtube.com - With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from...Never mind the conclusions, what’s the evidence?
ldc.upenn.edu - A month ago, I linked to Lera Boroditsky's WSJ piece "Lost in Translation", and promised to discuss the contents in more detail at some point in the future ("Boroditsky on...
Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'
bbc.co.uk - The University of Haifa team say people use both sides of their brain when they begin reading a language - but when learning Arabic this is wasting effort.The...
America: Land of Loners?
wilsonquarterly.com - Science-fiction writers make the best seers. In the late 1950s far-sighted Isaac Asimov imagined a sunny planet called Solaria, on which a scant 20,000 humans dwelt on far-flung...The War on War
thesecondpass.com - William James, the greatest American philosopher and a founding figure of both modern psychology and modern religious studies, died 100 years ago last week. It is also just a...What Is Consciousness?
bigthink.com - What does it mean to be conscious? It's a question that philosophers and scientists have puzzled over perhaps since there have been philosophers and scientists.In...
Forget science vs. postmodernism; give me pushback against the status quo
fistfulofscience.com - The science wars were a big thing back in the 90s. Postmodernists and science geeks butted heads over whether scientific knowledge was True or just truthy; and everyone had a...The End of Human Specialness
chronicle.com - The defining idea of the coming era is actually the loss of an idea we never had to worry about losing before. It is the decay of belief in the specialness of being human.
Greek teachers clash with the police
youtube.com - For their first demonstration after the summer holidays, Greek teachers from the public sector clashed with the police in front of the education ministry.« previous1 next »