Sign up for the Read | Write | Rock newsletter.
Once or twice a month, I update folks via email on innovations in Mr. Pratt's classroom.- Some pretty awesome 6-word essays on great teaching: from @StudentsFirstHQ
- RT @CathyNDavidson: How do you deconstruct “make a sandwich?” “how many chickens does the city of SF eat” Teaching Algorithmic Thinking ...
- Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day: …which I think should be every day.
Subscribe
Topics
Archives
Category Archives: media
“Do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.”
The work that folks did for #30daysofcreativity continues to astound, weeks after. This fine example of kinetic typography is just one of many, and fitting for the topic of how to get better at being creative. Ira Glass explains why you … Continue reading
Industrial Archeology, Hacker Tourism, and How Building the Internet Worked Circa 1996
Let’s say you’re reading this in Egypt, or Hong Kong, or London. How exactly do bits and bytes get from this web server (somewhere in California) to your far-flung screen? It’s not satellites or magic, but it is crazy. There’s … Continue reading
Euphemisms (30 Days of Creativity: Day 15)
Cinematic Appreciation Film Studies Celluloid Culture Motion Picture Explorations Cinematheque
Social entrepreneurship meets Dungeons & Dragons
In this TED talk, Jane McGonigal argues that that complex games like World of Warcraft teach players important critical thinking skills and weave a social problem-solving fabric. She goes on to point out that humans have spent 5.9 million collective … Continue reading
NPR and PHP
Every so often, I’m on a road trip, driving around the great southern states, and I’m overtaken with a very strong need for some public radio. Unfortunately, I don’t have one of the handy NPR Station Locator Maps. I also … Continue reading
New Season, New Mixtape: Final Version
So the original draft of this spring’s mixtape was a solid start, and I’ve been listening to it a good bit this past week, and thinking about advice from friends who provided input. Here I present the final version—and all … Continue reading
New Season, New Mixtape
Recently inspired by the indie twee lovefest Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, I’m working on the occasional project of designing a seasonal mix. This is an opportunity to gather together a bunch of the great music I’ve been listening to … Continue reading