The End of Expertise
Here’s a interestingly provocative article for all of us in education. How Much Do we Need to Know? by Peter Evans-Greenwood.
It opens with:
We used to be defined by what we knew. But today, knowing too much can be…
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“I am not a scientist”
I’m tired of the weasel-worded politicians who trot out “I am not a scientist” when asked a rational question that has the potential to challenge a deeply held, irrational, ignorant ideology.
When the threat of a shred of reality, logic,…
Creativity in the Classroom: The Commodore Amiga and PDS
It’s the 30th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga computer. This is apparently the machine that introduced a whole new world of computer gaming for a generation of users.
This is a cause of great celebration in the retro computing crowd.…
Mockingbirds on Trial
I haven’t read Go Set a Watchman and I’m not sure I will. I did read the first chapter in The Guardian and was not particularly impressed. If Harper Lee did not want it published then she didn’t want it…
Crikey! It’s #Blimage
Finally – at long last – the old desks were taken to the basement for storage.
There they sat for two decades -surplus to requirements, replaced by moulded plastic, steel and aluminum – gathering dust and shedding memories.
The lidded…
Leo Opdycke, his vision and his aeroplanes
When I first came to the Day School, in 1965, I brought with me a document I had put together with a colleague at the Harley School in Rochester. It described the attributes we wanted to see in a really…
Colleges Want to Know Your Wish List
To ensure their selectivity colleges want lots of students to apply, want to accept very few, and they want the overwhelming majority of their accepted students to attend. Schools work hard to not admit students who won’t attend. Why? Because…
Beloved English teacher, Don Fried, retires June 2015
PDS’s Don Fried was honored the evening of June 25th in NYC at the largest PDS alumni reunion ever! The room was bursting with stories about how Don and PDS have so deeply impacted the lives of our amazing students. …
PDS Director of Technology Presents Workshop at SXSWEdu
Besides amazing star quality, what do actor and tech entrepreneur, Ashton Kutcher, and technology director, David Held, have in common? They both attended this year’s South by Southwest K-12 Education Conference in Austin, Texas. Not only did he attend, but…
Insanity
If we want to drive our children into a complete frenzy and soul-destroying meltdown then consider this from The Washington Post: Genius Girl, a Harvard-Stanford admissions hoax and elite college mania
It’s the story of a hoax borne of desperation. …