Here’s to the schools that advertise different kinds of society, and more cheers to the schools who encourage students to create, change, and reform their own societies.
In the Morning
May16
May15
(Source: amandaonwriting, via mostbeauifullies)
May14
May13
Wil Wheaton on why being a nerd is awesome
Mr. Crusher delivered a message to an audience member’s newborn girl on why it’s so great to be a nerd, and a little advice for future life. It’s a goosebump-inducing video, and you should watch the whole thing here, and maybe just paste it to your mirror or something.
I don’t know how you’d paste a video to your mirror, but you should.
My favorite parts:
“Being a nerd… it’s not about what you love, it’s about how you love it… The defining characteristic that ties us all together, is that we love things.
Find the things that you love and love them the most that you can.”
A message that jives well with my own (see title of blog). I applaud you, Mr. Wheaton.
May12
Instead Of Extending The School Day, Why Not Lower Class Size?→
Why is it so hard to grasp for administrators or school boards?
(Source: gjmueller)
May11
(Source: thenewprint)
Carl Honore: In praise of slowness→
words to restore faith in humanity
May10
Humanity needs a new story. #magic #love
This is exactly what we are trying to do Imagining Learning! We are trying to help Young people be the authors of this new story and to help bring forth their visions of a world full of magic and love!
Check out more about our work here
(via adventuresinlearning)
(via psychmajors)
May9
Why does music make us feel happy or sad? Or angry or romantic? How can simple sound waves cause so much emotion?
First things first, this is the best t-shirt I’ve worn in any episode.
I went from my comfy chair to the streets of Austin to investigate whether it might be written into neural evolution. Modern neuroscience says our brains may be wired to pick certain emotions out of music because they remind us of how people move!
Humans are the only species we know that creates and communicate using music, but it’s still unclear how or why we do that, brain-wise. Is it just a lucky side effect of evolution, like Steven Pinker says? Or is it a deeper part of our evolutionary history, as people like Mark Changizi and Daniel Levitin argue?
Some brand new evolutionary psychology research says that we may read emotion in music because it relates to how we sense emotion in people’s movements. We’ll take a trip from Austin to Dartmouth to Cambodia to hear why music makes us feel so many feels. The connections between movement and music go far beyond dance moves!
Mike over at Idea Channel has a different opinion, that our emotional reactions to music are purely learned and cultural. Head on over and check it out. Do you agree?
For more reading on this awesome topic, check out these references.
We’ve all experienced this at least once!
hacking-curriculum:
this is a part of what’s wrong with the emphasis on testing in our education system…
May8
Good to know!
(via psychmajors)
May7
(Source: from-student-to-teacher)
May6
Courage to the umteenth degree! Kids risking their lives to attend school.
Share with students.
View more amazing children on their journeys to school here. These students truly realize the benefits/power of education. Sad that they have to go through this.
View more images of kids and their schools from around the world here.
