How AI Can Make Us More Human(e)
Last evening’s NY EdTech Meetup kicked off with a clip from the film iRobot, with Will Smith bravely facing off against Artificial...
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Jul 14, 20173 min read
For free. For everyone. Forever. For $23,000 a year?
The news that one of my heroes of learning, Sal Khan, opened a brick-and-mortar school in Silicon Valley in 2015 made me push "pause."...
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Jul 14, 20174 min read
Why Send Your Child to School?
20 years ago, when my first child was about 18 months old, we joined our first “Mommy and Me” class and thus began a couple of decades of...
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Aug 26, 20153 min read
3 Ways to Avoid School-as-Usual
50.1 million children will attend school in grades PK-12 this fall, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of those,...
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Aug 24, 20155 min read
Can We Teach Someone to Be More Self-Directed?
If you are familiar with the story of Timothy Doner, the kid who taught himself 20 languages, you are probably not only impressed by his...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
What Did You Do This Summer?
When people ask “How’s your summer going?” it reflects a paradigm built around a traditional school year calendar but which applies to a...
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Aug 23, 20152 min read
Start AIMMING for Success
It’s time to start AIMMing for success. AIMM is a simple acronym for Academics Integrated with Making and Mentoring, a straightforward...
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Aug 23, 20155 min read
Are You Planning on Sending Your Child Back to School as Usual?
What if the school to which your child returned in the fall was so different from what the industrial age, traditional school looked and...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
Questions Raised by a Placeholder Diploma
Last week I observed over 600 students from the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts graduate at the esteemed Avery Fisher Hall....
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May 2, 20154 min read
Will Old School Practices Remain as Education Redefines Itself?
As the worlds of higher education and K-12 redefine their missions and reshape their offerings, we continue to see resistance to models...
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