Look to Learn

His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.

Dipity timeline of "virality"

In the project's first position paper, "Developing Minds and Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era" (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/eBookstore/PDFs/GoodWork51.pdf), authors Margaret Weigel and Katie Heikinnen have synthesized the leading theories of cognitive development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Erikson), education and media studies (Turkle, Papert, Jenkins), and empirical findings about young people's digital media.

In 1976 the Financial Review offered Nicholson a job doing daily cartoons and six months later The Age in Melbourne recruited him. Nicholson worked at The Age for the next seventeen years.

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Use these images for Looking Activities with a class of students

Here's a handy one screen Tag Cloud of Web 2.0 terms from the Wikipedia entry on that topic. Many of the terms are clickable to the entry on that heading. Good for use after exploring Web 2 applications to see if there's any jargon that still wants clarification.

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Good for more background on Thinking Routines as related to the Look to Learn approach.

Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. A routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks.

What do you think? What would students say if they took this test? What would we say about ourselves?

How do you know if you're already addicted or rapidly tumbling toward trouble? The Internet Addiction Test is the first validated and reliable measure of addictive use of the Internet.

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Great teachers know that learning doesn't stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any number of other resources. If you are a teacher looking for ways to expand your knowledge base, here are 100 free lectures you can watch to help facilitate some of that learning.

Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, we are the steward of millions of recordings dating from the earliest Edison films to the present.

10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.