Happy Thanksgiving!

The Useless Agony of Going Offline – The New Yorker During the world’s longest weekend, it became clear to me that, when I’m using my phone or surfing the Internet, I am almost always learning something. I’m using Google to find out what types of plastic bottles are the worst for human health, or determining…
WhiteHat Jr., which operates in India and the United States, mounted an advertising blitzkrieg in India telling parents that our children need to learn coding from the age of 4, 5 or 6 — or they will fall behind in life. Indian celebrities promoted the brand and spread the fear of losing out among families….
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I’m not going to wade into the arguments for and against Common Core, but there was one aspect that I really liked about it. Part of Common Core focused on the why. In…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Isaac Asmiov was a prolific writer, completing almost 500 books in his lifetime. The article points out six things he did to help him complete this amount of work. I’m going to focus…
I am going to spend the next few days recharging and I hope you get a chance to recharge too. For help, I’m posting a picture of a kitten… On a beach.
I would like to thank our special guest author Kolt Buchenroth for his contribution today to Eduk8.me! He is currently the public relations manager for Kenton City Schools. The case against social media Nearly every communicator in the country will tell you that you need a social media presence. While they’re technically not wrong, throwing…