Commentary on a NewsHour report focusing on Clintondale High School’s flipped classroom initiative.
Author: Justin Reich
Psychologists Prove That Video Games Are Good For You
Parsing a meta-analysis of research studies that highlights a few proven benefits of specific game-playing practices and many potential benefits worth exploring further.
Learning the Landscape Through Reverse Engineering Projects
An MIT undergraduate shares her observations on the strengths and weaknesses of a reverse engineering project using Google SketchUp.
EdTech Start-ups and the Curse of the Familar
The unfortunate need for edtech entrepreneurs to eat limits the creativity and potential of the start-up scene.
In Defense of Messiness: David Weinberger and the iPad Summit
The iPad Summit is about big ideas and a changing world, not about technology.
Talking About Flipping with Rich Halverson
An online recording of an hour long conversation about flipping the classroom with WHYY’s Radio Times.
Up All Night to Get Data
An illustration of the kinds of work that researchers do, set to Daft Punk.
Book Review: The App Generation
A review of Howard Gardner and Katie Davis’s new book The App Generation:
Pediatricians Release New Media Policy Statement
The American Academy of Pediatrics report has very well-considered specific suggestions, but the overall framing of the document borrows too much from a rhetoric of fear and risk.
The Education of a MOOC Dropout
The story of one MOOC “dropout” who took away valuable lessons from her unfinished learning experience.