Recently I read about Ypsilanti New Tech High School in Michigan. It is a high school that is based on project-based learning and high tech.

Feldscher, Kyle (11/30/2010). Ypsilanti New Tech High School's unconventional approach resonating with teachers, students. Retrieved 12/1/2010 from http://www.annarbor.com/news/ypsilanti/ypsilanti-new-tech-high-school-students-and-staff-adjust-to-changes-excited-about-new-direction/.

Of course, I am a long time advocate of project-based learning. That is probably why the article caught my attention—that, and the mention of technology.

Many years ago when I first became a faculty member in the University of Oregon College of Education, I heard about C.P. Snow and his ideas on Two Cultures. I didn’t read his material, but I agreed with ideas of science versus non-science ways of viewing the world and as areas of scholarship. Although I had been sort of brain washed by my mathematician father during my childhood to believe that Mathematics was not only the queen of the sciences but the queen of intellectualism, I was gradually coming to accept the idea that in every academic discipline there are some very smart people. For example, I got to know a number of very capable faculty members in the College of Education.

Recently I read C.P. Snow’s famous lecture (about 30 pages in length):

Snow, C.P. (1959). The two cultures and scientific revolution. Available free online at http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/snow_1959.pdf.