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Essay on the idea that non-philosophers should judge philosophers

One of the oldest questions of philosophy is, "Who guards the guardians?" When Plato posed this question -- if not quite this succinctly -- his concern was with how a community can keep its leaders focused on the good of the whole.
Overview | How big is infinity? How can one kind of infinity be larger than another kind? In this lesson, students explore the infinite by researching and discussing some of the greatest uses — and misuses — of this mysterious, rich and important mathematical concept. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/teaching-the-mathematics-of-infinity/

Lesson Plan | Teaching the Mathematics of Infinity

Reading, Math and Grit

It is hardly a surprise that education isn’t a heated subject in the presidential race. Not when the economy is still sluggish, and the fight over the role of government so central. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/opinion/nocera-a-ray-of-hope-in-education.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share
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10 Rules for Students and Teachers (and Life) by John Cage and Sister Corita Kent

by Maria Popova “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.”
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/29/151646558/if-a-fact-dies-in-the-forest-will-anyone-believe-it According to columnist Rex Huppke, there was a recent death that you might have missed.

The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness'

By David Jaffee Among the problems on college campuses today are that students study for exams and faculty encourage them to do so. I expect that many faculty members will be appalled by this assertion and regard it as a form of academic heresy. If anything, they would argue, students don't study enough for exams; if they did, the educational system would produce better results. http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Telling-Students-to-Study/131622/?sid=at

Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams - Commentary

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http://blog.ted.com/2012/04/06/using-ted-conversations-in-the-classroom/ All semester, TED Fellow Nina Tandon has been using TED Conversations as part of her class in bioelectricity at Cooper Union . Yesterday in the TED offices, she hosted a Live TED Conversation to answer questions about using TED Conversations in her class. Here are some highlights: Sarah Meyer : So your students asked questions of the TED community as they studied? Did any of their conversations get particularly good responses? Did you or your students learn anything from any of the comments?

Using TED Conversations in the classroom

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/01/dan-pink-how-teachers-can-sell-love-of-learning-to-students/

Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students

Erin Scott By Jennie Rose In his new book To Sell is Human , author Daniel Pink reports that education is one of the fastest growing job categories in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-21st-century-education.html?pagewanted=all And the world is changing very rapidly. Think social networking, gay marriage, or the rise of China. Most companies look nothing like they did 50 years ago. Think General Motors, AT&T or Goldman Sachs. Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time. My predecessor as Harvard president, Derek Bok, famously compared the difficulty of reforming a curriculum with the difficulty of moving a cemetery.

What You (Really) Need to Know

Schools We Can Envy by Diane Ravitch

Tuomas Uusheimo The Kirkkojärvi School in Espoo, Finland, which accommodates about 770 students aged seven to sixteen and also includes a preschool for six-year-olds; from the Museum of Finnish Architecture’s exhibition ‘The Best School in the World: Seven Finnish Examples from the 21st Century,’ which will be on view at the American Institute of Architects’ Center for Architecture in New York City this fall In recent years, elected officials and policymakers such as former president George W. Bush, former schools chancellor Joel Klein in New York City, former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have agreed that there should be “no excuses” for schools with low test scores.

Seattle High School's Teachers Toss District's Test

Garfield High School's academic dean and testing coordinator, Kris McBride, at a news conference announcing the teachers' boycott of the MAP test in Seattle on Jan. 10.

The Digital Education Revolution, Cont'd: Meet TED-Ed's New Online Learning Platform - Megan Garber - Technology

TED's new tool lets teachers create customized lessons that revolve around web video . The iconic image of high school education, forged for most of us through personal experience and viewings of Dead Poets Society , is this: a teacher, standing in front of his or her class, lecturing. There are exceptions, definitely: the class discussion, the interactive lab experiment, the game, the field trip. For the most part, though, despite years of education reform, we tend of think of education as a highly vertical experience, one of active teachers and passive students, one in which knowledge radiates out from a single speaker to a roomful of silent listeners. That model is changing, though, and quickly.

The Trouble With Online Education

This line, which I’ve heard in various forms, always makes me cringe.

Tree Sitting

Clay Shirky observed at the Awl last week that he and I disagree over whether the trend toward MOOCs in higher education is reversible—he says no, and he says that I say yes—and I suppose he’s right, so far as that goes. But I don’t think that goes very far. There were a few cheap shots about “teamsters in tweed” that were worth noting.