Do you think textbooks are obsolete?
In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multimedia Web sites. I see new schools making this switch. My daughters currently head out the door with backpacks loaded heavy and I have found myself paying excess baggage fees to accomodate ambitious ...
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Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
What determines success in college and beyond? Good grades? Hard work? Persistence? Recently there has been much published regarding following the path of least resistance versus trying and failing. American RadioWorks' Emily Hanford explores the issue in this Documentary Podcast.
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Have Your Kids Study Lego Bricks in School!
Applied education at its best! This interview with technology teacher Cathy Webb, describes advantages of using legos in curriculum to teach kids to creatively problem-solve, to break outside of the box of Lego bricks and look for the objects around them and build ...
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