Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I need something to think about.....

Teaching adolescents can be invigorating, or mind-numbing. With student abilities running the gamut from brilliant to quite dim, it is a challenge to structure a lesson that can reach across the intellectual chasm that can exist in a classroom. How can one build into their lessons, little seeds that could take root with not just students, but with the instructor?
Intellectual stimulation is critical in keeping the learning process moving forward. How important it is to have questions always hovering over every presentation? Where does one find this stimulation on the Internet and how can it be used by students and teachers? These are some of the questions that should be pondered as intellectual stimulation is being offered up by impassioned teachers and learners.
Here are some sites to start those intellectual juices flowing. Some I'll comment on, or embed. With others nothing need be said, only for you to browse.

  • Education Next-In the stormy seas of school reform, this site and journal will steer a steady course, presenting the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments. Bold change is needed in American K–12 education, but Education Next partakes of no program, campaign, or ideology. It goes where the evidence points.
Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.
With our community of savvy users and an extensive, growing library of smart videos, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the ongoing integration - and transformation – of the traditional media, TV, cable, and online industries from mass-market to high-quality, high-value content.
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TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.




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