FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If you're looking for some Sunday reading that takes you away from the fires we face in the markets and abroad, and give some food for thought on how we're educating our children, take a look at the New York Times Sunday Magazine issue on Teaching, the College Issue. Here's a taste of what to expect:
"Does teaching make you a bad writer? Could it make you a good president? How would you teach on YouTube? How would you teach in Dubai?
How can you teach with ... style? From Alaska to Alabama to the Persian Gulf, we look at the mysteries of teaching in all its variety.
Words aside, however, the look of this issue is all-student: headline type, photographs and illustrations are all the work of undergraduate and graduate students from across the country, and a few from overseas as well."
There's a lot of good stuff here, and one of my favorites is this piece on the explosion of amazing lectures available online to anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection. The viral online success of Physics Professor Walter Lewin, number one for a while on iTunes University, is a good case in point.
Enjoy.
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