‘For Each and Every Child’– A Strategy for Yesterday’s Child
By Frank B. Withrow [Note: The following is a response to the 2 Feb. 2013 report, “For Each and Every Child: A Strategy for Education Equity and Excellence," by the Department of Education’s Equity and...
View Article‘Hacking the Academy’– A Test of Time
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor The first thing you should know about Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities (Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, editors,...
View Article‘Teaching History in the Digital Age’– Call for a New Breed of Teachers
By Lynn Zimmerman Associate Editor Editor, Teacher Education As a teacher educator, I am concerned that I am training my students how to teach yesterday’s students rather than tomorrow’s. Therefore, I...
View Article‘Hacking the Academy’– Intimate Conversations with Voices at the Edge
By Jessica Knott Associate Editor Editor, Twitter Much like the tone of ETC Journal, the collection of articles compiled in Hacking the Academy does not comprise the most rigorously edited academic...
View Article‘Teaching Digital Natives': Difference Between ‘Relevant’ and ‘Real’
By Lynn Zimmerman Associate Editor Editor, Teacher Education Review of Marc Prensky’s Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning, Corwin Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4129-7541-4. I picked this...
View ArticleReview: ‘The New Digital Age’ by Schmidt & Cohen
By Frank B. Withrow Review: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, Knopf, 2013. The authors visited thirty-five countries and examined...
View ArticleDisney Animation Embraces Science
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Big Hero 6 marks several firsts for Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS). It’s their first action animation with six action sequences. Previous animated movies...
View ArticleThe ‘Fury’ of War Tanks
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education The new Hollywood movie, FURY, focuses on tanks, their role, and tank crews in World War II. This 2-hour 14-minute film opens in theaters on Friday, 17 Oct....
View Article‘The Theory of Everything’– A Hollywood Take on Science
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education The new movie, The Theory of Everything, is about the life of Stephen Hawking from his graduation from Oxford to his becoming famous and then separating from...
View ArticleThe iPhone 6 Plus and Tablets: A Tectonic Drift
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor The iPhone 6 Plus arrived via USPS priority mail yesterday, so I’ve had it for a little over a day. My first impression is that it has a completely different look and feel...
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