Posts Tagged ‘formal education’

The Learning Factory

K-12 classrooms irrelevant to today’s environment. By David Warlick. There is a commonly told story, usually attributed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seymour Papert. It states that if a doctor from the 1890s were to suddenly be time-warped into a modern twenty-first century hospital,...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Cover stories, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Comic books 101

An innovative way to explore multiculturalism. Academic course examines how comic books and graphic novels reveal the important social issues of our time. Tucked discreetly between the pages of X-Men, Green Lantern and other comic book adventure stories are themes that delve into more than extraordinary...
May 13th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Creating | Read More