Do smart phones make smarter students?

Can an app today keep bad grades away? Long the bane of teachers, smartphones are being re-imagined by educators as a positive presence in the classroom. What’s more, a survey released Thursday shows more than half of Canadians – 56 per cent – agree that the mobile devices are an “invaluable tool” for students, while …

 

Experience the new TED Books App

After more than a year of planning and development, we’re excited to today unveil the new TED Books App. Since launching TED Books in early 2010, we’ve been dreaming of how to meld the experience of book reading with the game-changing potential of the tablet. The TED Books platform provides the surprises you’d expect in …

 

WikiLeaks wins case against Visa

We completely support WikiLeaks and encourage you to make donations to Julian Assange legal fund here like we have done. A court in Iceland has ruled that Visa and MasterCard’s local partner broke the law in the country by blocking WikiLeaks from receiving money. The court ordered the company to resume processing donations to the website …

 

Update on John Taylor Gatto

This update was sent to us from Tragedy and Hope community newsletter on July 1, 2012: As many of you are aware, John suffered multiple strokes in the weeks after visiting us in Connecticut and filming the Ultimate History Lesson interview. Since that time, he has been in and out of hospitals and rehabilitation centers, …

 

5 Ways To Keep Training Fresh

Recently a freelance journalist working for Destiny Magazine asked me to answer questions on keeping training fresh. All my training workshops I’ve developed under NETucation have been designed for skills not qualifications. Here is my experience: We live in a complex world filled with confusion and conflict. Training for qualifications received a major backlash in …