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16 May 08

District Puts All the World in Classrooms - NYT

  • Najiba Keshwani, 16, an 11th grader who is Muslim but jokes that she is half-Jewish because she has many Jewish friends and loves to nosh on matzo, put it this way: “To be American, maybe you used to have to be white and own land, but now we define what American is, and I think that affects how we learn.”


07 Apr 08

Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain. - NYT

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

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  • But now that computers can emulate many of the sequential skills of the brain’s left hemisphere — the part that sees the individual trees in a forest — the author Daniel Pink argues that it’s time for our imaginative right brain, which sees the entire forest all at once, to take center stage.
02 Apr 08

Does Computing Add Up in the Classroom? - NYT

  • Below the university level, however, computing is far from that stature today. But the math panel report recommends well-designed computer instruction as a way to nurture greater fluency in math and understanding of math concepts, from drill and practice to programming
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