Creating a Digital Utopia
I wanted to share my favorite ITGS project ever that my students and I have developed: Design a digital utopia. I used this project as a fun final “capstone” project for the two year course.…
Category Archives: Humanities
Space Always Matters – My Friend Ed Soja
I am very sad to report that my friend and former thesis advisor Ed Soja has just passed away. Not only was Ed a brilliant and provocative thinker but he was also one of the…
Why Don’t Students Like School? – Book Review
This blog post is the second part in a ongoing series of my reflections on humans think and learn and the implications for the classroom. Part 1 is on Nobel prize winner (Econ) Psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking…
Don’t Limit Girls & Don’t Demonize Boys
My amazing colleague Sarah Boodai, who teaches in Kuwait, and I recently presented a teacher session on gender in the classroom. Our goal was to get teachers thinking about how they treat gender in the classroom…
China Under Mao 1949-1976
China under Mao Lessons 4-10 in my IB History Unit on China. See each lesson lecture below. To see individual lessons/activities/materials/etc. please download the complete Unit Plan here. Lesson 4: The Early Years of…
What’s on the web?
My weekly reads of note: I agree with this article, I do think social media and the internet are improving students writing skills. I also think we are collectively getting better at tests, not getting smarter as our…
What’s on the Web?
My weekly reading this week was very heavy with quality digital media pieces starting with this phenomenal documentary constructed by the NYTimes using their own archives. Ken Burns eat your heart out. This kid is…
What’s on the Web?
My weekly links of note: It’s comforting in our age of youth worship to learn that human culture and society didn’t really get going until old people showed up. You’re welcome, Kiddos. What a fantastic…
What’s on the Web?
My weekly internet finds of note: I loved making maps of imaginary worlds as a child. This guy, however, has turned this hobby into a real work of art, complete with realistic urban planning projections.…
Social Networks in History
This study of social networks in Homer’s Odyssey (via Foreign Policy’s ideas blog) is the latest in a string of network theory studies that have examine history under the lens of network theory. Earlier researchers analyzed…