How often do we hear that libraries aren’t just about books anymore? They are makerspaces with 3-D printers, scanners, laser vinyl cutters and routers. They provide green rooms, sewing machines, button makers, and tools like drills, saws and soldering irons. They are places to borrow seeds, fishing rods, cake making supplies, binoculars, laptops and tablets, radon detectors, musical instruments, bicycles and take-home wifi hotspots. They are important sites for […] … learn more→
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Libraries can have 3-D printers but they are still about books
School spankings are banned just about everywhere around the world except in US
In 1970, only three countries – Italy, Japan and Mauritius – banned corporal punishment in schools. By 2016, more than 100 countriesbanned the practice, which allows teachers to legally hit, paddle or spank students for misbehavior. The dramatic increase in bans on corporal punishment in schools is documented in an analysis that we conducted recently to learn more about the forces […] … learn more→
Where I stand: Rewriting the academic bio
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about expertise and its history and the ways that academics like me deploy it to underpin our knowledge and authority claims. This is my current bio, taken from my UTS website: I send versions of this bio to conferences and academic journals and reproduce it in thousands of conversations. […] … learn more→
Summer readings: seven books to slip into your children’s suitcases
Why not take advantage of the summer season of change of scenery, to encourage your children to reconnect with the world of books, or simply to diversify their reading? Between novels, novels and poems, fantastic journeys, family sagas or humorous questions from today’s world, here are seven tracks to explore with an audience of 5 to […] … learn more→
There is a College course on “Problematizing whiteness”
In my book I detail how academic fraud is systemic in higher education, detailing how our corrupted accreditation system and corrupt “leadership” have allowed what used to be the greatest university system into the world to debase into predominantly a massive scan to indebt and enslave our kids. That was over 5 years ago, and […] … learn more→
The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated
America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education – a landmark case intended to abolish the “separate-but-equal” doctrine of racial segregation in schools. But the racial makeup of today’s schools actually owes itself to a series of other court decisions – including one issued 45 years ago on July 25, […] … learn more→
The College Bookpocalypse
One of the few things every school must have is a library, it’s literally written into the accreditation rules. A century ago this made sense as books were the primary means of retrieving and storing knowledge. If you’re reading this, then you know books have taken a back seat to the internet, aka “the font […] … learn more→
How a robot called Pink helped teach school children an Aboriginal language
A cute human-like robot taught students in a small, rural school how to code while also helping them learn their local Aboriginal language. The Maitland Lutheran School is an independent, co-educational primary and middle school in the farming district of Maitland, Yorke Peninsula, in South Australia. It is located on the traditional lands of the Narungga people. […] … learn more→
What school segregation looks like in the US today, in 4 charts
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a senator from California, has spoken about how she benefited from attending Berkeley’s desegregated schools. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,” Harris said in the […] … learn more→
Mathematics is about wonder, creativity and fun, so let’s teach it that way
Alice in Wonderland enthusiasts recently celebrated the story’s anniversary with creative events like playing with puzzles and time — and future Alice exhibits are in the works. The original 1865 children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, sprung from a mathematician’s imagination, continues to inspire exploration and fun. But is a connection between math and creativity captured in schools? Much […] … learn more→
