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“Set up your own private area for creating and playing interactive stories and text-based games.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Why a Gorilla Nanny is the Right Choice for Our Family.
Makes for an interesting way to research and write about any animal . . .
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My children are feral but I’m working on taking them to the next level.
I do wonder if it’s less about wilderness per se and more about real experiences. You could probably do many things in the city/suburbs that would engage kids in a similar way.
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The Cursing Stone – Futility Closet
This is a serious curse.
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from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, before and behind, within and without.
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I take from them, and cast down all the good deeds that ever they did, or shall do
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The Pain and the Glory: Running Iowa’ BIG Competency Based School | ThinkThankThunk
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It’s not about pigeon-holing the project, it’s about being open to what the students want to do, because that’s the only psychological leverage I have at BIG. If you don’t like your project, I can’t make you do it; we don’t have points or grades. This is the pain and the glory.
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What Makes You Put Down a Book?
Reasons people give up on books . . . I can’t believe Catch-22 is #1 on the abandonment list. And yes this “infographic” is awful.
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Modern Day Snail Mail – Cristina Vanko
There are many strange depths left to plumb where old and new blend.
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In the footsteps of UBC’s Murder, Madness, and Mayhem . . .
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Beginning in December, fourth-year medical students at the University of California at San Francisco will be able to take a for-credit class in which they will edit Wikipedia articles about medical topics, the university has announced. The students will edit existing articles’ texts and add citations, and professors will track the changes.
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Bard College Reinvents the Admissions Process | Via Meadia
Measuring student “worthiness” . . .
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Rather than relying on high school GPAs and SAT scores, future applicants will have the option of completing four research papers, 2,500 words long, on topics ranging from 17th-century poetry to microbial research. Professors will take a look at these papers, and if the student can earn a B+ or better, they’re in. The aim is to allow gifted, curious students who haven’t made the grade in high school, for whatever reason, to prove that they are ready for the rigors of college. As the New York Times
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We’ve long believed that the key to education is rewarding students for what they learn and are willing to learn rather than how many hours they’ve spent sitting in class or how many activities they’ve managed to fit on their resumes. Unfortunately, much of our education system, at both the high school and college level, seeks to measure exactly that, rewarding students for sitting still and playing by the rules rather than intellectual curiosity and self-directed learning.
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A great source for colorize historical photos and a really interesting example of people doing hard work out of interest and passion. Portions unsafe.
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Rare 3D Camera Found Containing Photos from WWI
It’d be fun to have a computer art class create similar images to capture important moments in history.