Why Do I Teach?

Short, but worth the read from The New York Times on-going column 'The Stone':

Why I Do I Teach?

Ken Robinson: How to Escape Education's Death Valley

Funny, fascinating, and worth a look - more from Ken Robinson:

Why Private Schools Are Dying Out

There are some really fascinating and nauseating points in this article. Perhaps we should discuss in a faculty meeting?


Worth a read "Why Private Schools Are Dying Out" - Chester E. Finn Jr. - The Atlantic

http://mer.gy/1wk

Summer reading

The Google Certified Teacher's list recently had a conversation about
books on the topic of 21st Century Students/Learning. Here is a Shelfari another teacher (from the Village School) put together with all of the suggestions (some of which have already been mentioned in this blog). Let's take the time to add more to the shelf ...?

Carolyn

http://www.shelfari.com/o1514890621/shelf

Multi-tasking While Learning

This blog post reinforces what you may already believe about the distractions of technology in the learning process. It's not surprising that researchers found students were only working about 65% of the time they thought they were working hard on their homework.
Multi-tasking Research
The New York Times is on the same page with this article about distractions:
Toggling Tasks