Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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


  • 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