Thursday, November 3, 2011

a way for kids to contribute

the cool weather gets me thinking about ways to get my children thinking beyond their own needs- check out www.wegivebooks.org. Their tagline is "Read a book. Give a book.Combining the joy of reading with the power of helping others".

Monday, October 24, 2011

on Khan Academy

found this while searching for (with intention to post) Clive Thompson's latest Wired article, on kids using google, apparently not yet available online....

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

re: pushing our limits, physically and mentally- or maybe it's all mental?

Interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/health/nutrition/20best.html?_r=1&ref=science

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

character and education

do note the author's last name...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&hp

Friday, September 2, 2011

on math

This blog could be a good place to post links of potential interest to the Acton community- I'll begin with this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/opinion/how-to-fix-our-math-education.html