Information Age Education BlogThe purpose of David Moursund’s IAE Blog is to encourage and facilitate people working to improve informal and formal education at all levels and in all discipline areas. A unifying theme is that education empowers the educated and improves their quality of life. Readers are encouraged to add comments. Tags >> Responsible Education
I like numbers. This morning at breakfast I was browsing USA Today on my iPad, and I came across an article titled “Several new state laws set for 2012. (Article by William M. Welch dated 12/9/2011). Here is the second paragraph: Some 40,000 laws were passed by legislatures meeting in all 50 states during 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and many have a state date of Jan. 1, 2012.
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. A great many years ago I served on an Advisory Panel that helped the Educational Testing Service in its efforts to develop a Computer Literacy Assessment Instrument. Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization. It is presently headquartered near Princeton, New Jersey. (Wikipedia)
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. I was listening to the radio yesterday as I was returning from visiting a professional colleague. Two frightening news items caught my attention.
Being the numbers-oriented person that I am, I divided the larger of these two numbers by the smaller, and got an answer of $2,000 of US federal debt for each person on earth. If each person on earth would contribute $2,000 to the US, it could pay off its debt.
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. It is easy to think of possible ways to improve education. Ask almost anybody, and you will get some suggestions. It is much more difficult to think of ways that can be widely implemented and will work.
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. Steady progress is occurring in the development of computerized machines (including robots).
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. I started my day be reading two news items about failures of our education system. The first concerned student knowledge and understanding of geography, and the second focused on science education.
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page.
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page. I recently read the following article:
Use of the Information Age Education resources continues to grow. For a list of IAE’s six major resources and data about three of them, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Main_Page.
Click here to learn about Dave Moursund's free book on science and technology education for teaches and parents of K-8 children. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Over the years, our federal government has made a variety of efforts to try to improve this country’s educational system. In over the past decade, “No child left behind” has been the rallying cry. However, this has not been a very successful approach. |
