Barry Schwartz presentation at TEDTalks Are there any implications for education?

Is there a lesson here?

I am sitting in a dentist chair as I write this. The other day I was doing my online work at Rowe Hyundai in Auburn as they changed the oil ...

One of my side jobs is to work with adult educators and students at Oxford Hills to investigate the possibilities of online (distance) learn...

Anyone for sustainable living? I'll confess I've slipped terribly in my consideration for the planet earth since I was a young man...

by Jenifer Van Deusen Great line of thinking here! Fits in with the book, A Whole New Mind, that administrators here in Kittery have been r...

by Martha Thibodeau The Dial Up Blues Remote is my geography, So make your photos small. If it takes too long to load I may not look at al...

"The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kind of humans beings do we wa...

"We are engaged in a grim duel. We are beginning to recognize the threat to American technical supremacy which could materialize if __...

Playing with Time is a great site for learning about the possibilities in time-lapse photography. A neat piece of software for time-lapse ...

by Ernie Easter I read David Warlick's 2 Cents Worth this morning and was struck by his comment about transliteracy. From David Warlick...

I've been a fan of student-led conferences since the first time I used it as a fifth grade teacher. Until that time I had no idea of th...

"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book." ...

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best fr...

Did you know that Alaskan schools have a 1-to-1 laptop program and standards-based learning combined, in several places, with an expeditiona...

Tim Ouillette of the Advanced Communications and Multimedia Program at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School reports that his students p...

Two of the school systems with which I work, MSAD#43 Mountain Valley and MSAD#21 Dirigo , have late-arrival days every Wednesday. In other...

At the Mountain Valley Middle School "late-arrival" session this morning, I took part in a simple, yet very effective, activity c...

I worked with two 8th grade language arts classes Monday morning on the basics of Noteshare in my quest for Oxford Hills Middle School teach...

by Ed Latham A good friend of mine totally ruined my level of productivity for most of the day today. Becky Ranks offered up link to Randy P...