Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library Planet is meant to inspire travellers “to open the awesome book that is our world … Continue reading The library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
A generation of schoolchildren is being exhorted to believe in their brain’s elasticity. Does it really help them learn? Over the past century, a powerful idea has taken root in the educational landscape. The notion of intelligence as something innate … Continue reading The growth mindset problem
Do you need another reason to love bees? Not only can our fuzzy little flower friends perform basic arithmetic, scientists have now discovered that they can recognise symbols associated with numbers. Just as we humans recognise the symbol 7 or VII … Continue reading Experiment Shows Bees Can Understand a Symbolic Language For Mathematics
From fostering creativity and freedom to providing impressive educational outcomes, homeschooling is an increasingly appealing option. Homeschoolers perform well academically. Your kids may be happier. Issues like ADHD might disappear or become less problematic. It doesn’t matter if they fidget. YOU may be happier! All that … Continue reading 100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
Try this experiment. At your next professional development session, conference, or perhaps on social media, mention the famous “30-million-word gap” study, which demonstrated that low-income children hear far less spoken language before their first day of school than their affluent … Continue reading The making of an edu-myth: The 30-million-word gap has not been “debunked”
THE TOWN MEETING The windows of the town hall were opened wide to allow the nippy autumn breeze into the grand town hall. Looking out you could see the old buildings in the historic district of our quaint town with … Continue reading ZENZELE – AGE 18, SOUTH AFRICA
No longer a fringe movement, educating children at home is now the choice of more and more parents. My brothers and I were homeschooled in the 1990s. At the time, we thought it was normal to wake up at 9 … Continue reading Why homeschooling is fast becoming the modern way to educate your kids
Researchers are creating models of where people will move when climate shocks hit, but so far we’re just making educated guesses. In 2006, the British economist Nicholas Stern warned that one of the biggest dangers of climate change would be … Continue reading Get ready for tens of millions of climate refugees
A machine can collate environmental data, genetic data, and patient history way better than I can. Several years ago Vinod Khosla, the Silicon Valley investor, wrote a provocative article titled “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?” Khosla argued that doctors … Continue reading AI can’t replace doctors. But it can make them better.
When adults wouldn’t listen, Greta Thunberg started to strike. Now millions of school children around the world follow her. Thunberg’s generation is our best chance of saving the world When Greta Thunberg first downloaded Instagram in June 2018, the Swedish … Continue reading Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet
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