Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/14/2010

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/14/2010

Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/14/2010

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)

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  The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - Annotated
  "For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong - and how we can fix it."
  tags: education creativity innovation
  
  • 1990 is when the overzealous drive for standardized testing and curriculum began. Go figure. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
  • We say that we do the same as far as problem based learning, but our problem is how to get kids to pass a standardized test. In truth, other countries are taking on learning methods that we discarded in the late 1980s, we are taking on a learning approach that they have abandoned after 1000 years of practice. Our own educational leaders are all in denial about this. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
  • Edutainers, don't get your hopes up for synchronized dance interpretation of math problems. Using