Park Street School

New collection: The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America

Historical facts about Pocahontas

prompts for students to use when documenting & reflecting on their work

"Failure has been a trending topic on Education Unbound recently, particularly in regards to the disconnect between educational objectives and game-based learning (GBL). The basic problem is that games depend on players failing multiple times as the primary means of learning how to overcome obstacles. Education, in contrast, is predicated on the notion that failure is bad - for the student, the teacher, and the system as a whole. Until this difference of opinion can be overcome, there is little possibility that GBL can ever become the dominant mode of education in America."

"When looked at correctly, failure can teach us where we went wrong in the first place, and how we can learn to pick ourselves up again in a pursuit to succeed."

"Mistakes happen - and when they do - how do we deal with being wrong? In this episode, TED speakers look at those darker moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on."

resources, questions and other related pieces

"Seattle improviser and auctioneer Matt Smith shows how altering our physiological response to failure can lead to transparency, availability, flexibility and even happiness."

" "What risks to take on, how much money is too little or too much, are all judgment calls we help entrepreneurs with. Even which technology risk to take, building the right gene pool of a company, is a delicate balancing act between science, innovation, experience, burn rate, and many other factors that are seldom appreciated by people who have not built large, successful companies starting with small ones. Transitions and uncertainty are difficult to intuit." "

"Every inventor in history has failed more often than he or she has succeeded. Hands-on teaching allows kids to fail -- and to thrive."

The experience of traveling can often feel frustratingly slow. But despite the traffic jams on the roads and congested airports, we don't know how good we have it today compared to our great-great grandparents. Images and maps showing the trend and expansion of travel from East to West