Advertisements NASA Photo Today is the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s space flight. It was a different era, a time of competition for the high frontier.
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Technology is Distraction in Schools
Advertisements Image Credit Ron Packard of K12.com spoke today at an Illinois Policy Institute program today in Chicago. He thinks technology is a distraction in schools because
Read moreFebruary 2012 Skywatching
Advertisements Orion, winter’s flagship constellation, is in the southern skies during the evening hours of February. The pattern is easily found by locating three stars
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Advertisements Taurus the Bull is visible high in southern skies during January January opens with a sky full of stars and planets in the evening
Read moreOnline learning: Shouldn’t We Do better?
Advertisements Image Credit With online learning, shouldn’t we do better? Shouldn’t we have higher expectations? Shouldn’t we stop telling partial truths? Partial truths don’t help
Read moreSkywatching, December 2011
Advertisements Image Credit The Sun reaches its southern-most point in its yearly travels at 11:30 p.m. CST on December 21, signalling the beginning of winter
Read moreNotes From the Virtual School Symposium 2011
Advertisements Over 1,900 conferees assembled in Indianapolis for the Virtual School Symposium November 9-11, 2011. My notes from the day follow. A wiki is available for
Read moreThe Deregulation of Education II: The Measures of Quality
Advertisements Image Source In 1937, F. Dean McClusky was asked to study why there had been a failure of commercial film makers to make successful
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Advertisements The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in full in this new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared
Read moreOnline Learning in Northern Illinois
Advertisements On October 18, 2011, 35 individuals representing 27 organizations attending a start-up meeting at the DuPage County (Illinois) Regional Office of Education to discuss
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