Sep 5, 2010 | KickStart, Team Manager Corner
Some of our friends on Twitter shared an interesting storytelling resource from American author S.E. Schlosser. The Famous American Folktales & Stories web site [home page | story listing | New Hampshire folklore]. These may or may not be the way you heard the...
Aug 2, 2010 | Educators, KickStart, Parents, Team Manager Corner
As posted on TED (Techonology, Education and Design)” This poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’...
Aug 2, 2010 | Educators, KickStart, Parents, Team Manager Corner
TED (Technology, Education and Design) talks are known for leading edge talks. In 2006, Sir Ken Robinson in one of the most watched education videos of all times (over 4-million downloads worldwide) makes a case that we are still educating our children to be better...
Aug 1, 2010 | Coordinators, Educators, KickStart, Parents, Team Manager Corner
An interesting paper released in April, finding “Students are learning how to be successful repeaters of knowledge, but they are not learning how to apply their knowledge to open ended, real-life challenges. After-school programs and visual and performing arts...
