Over 1000 Twitter educators alone. Cool!

Not directly related to education, but something I think any educator should be interested in. Unless they're already dead-in-the-head. It happens, I guess.

An organisation devoted to improving inner-city graduation rates in the USA.

A useful source of information for the digital educator.

A blog maintained by a quality educator in NY.

Teacher-san, do you have what it takes to be the Iron Teacher?

Might be useful when teaching online source evaluation and the use of search engines to students.

What do people think of this woman's criticism of education today? Are we so blinkered by ideological prejudices that we're killing what makes education exciting and effective?

Hi. We've got a group for history teachers, students and enthusiasts to share resources, bookmarks and ideas with each other. The focus is on helping history teachers and students share good-quality sources to improve the quality of history teaching and research. If you're a history teacher with a passion for innovation we'd love to have you along so please come and join at http://groups.diigo.com/groups/history-teachers. See you there! David.

Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.

Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.