Dr. Doug Green

Dr. Doug’s Super Bowl Net Nuggets

Douglas Green — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:59:44 +0000

Click the title above for today’s needles from the Internet haystack. This will take you to the Tweet of the Day. Click the Next button for the rest. Also check my archives and share.

Tweet Of The Day
Social Media in Education Teens are slowly migrating to Twitter. Too many parents/grand parents on Facebook @s_bearden @shareski

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Dr. Doug Attends Educon 2.4 in Philadelphia

Douglas Green — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:42:43 +0000

Today I am speaking at EdCon 2.4 in Philadelphia. It is amazing. It is held at Chris Lehmann’s Scientific Learning Academy, which is a magnet high school. The students are a big part of planning and running the conference. At last night’s panel discussion, there was a focus on innovation and mistakes. If you haven’t read my summary of Steven Johnson’s book on innovation or Alina Tugend’s book on Better By Mistake here are the links. I will be back with my Net Nuggets tomorrow. Love you all.

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The Rise of the New Groupthink – Collaboration May Be Over Rated

Douglas Green — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:54:21 +0000

The Rise Of the New Groupthink by Susan Cain (New York Times, January, 15, 2012, pp. 1, 6 Business Section) explains how there might be an overemphasis on collaboration in business and school settings that is hurting creativity. Working together is fine, but you need to provide for quiet time for people to work alone and avoid too much in the way of get togethers. This has implications for building design and explains why standard brain storming techniques are counter productive. It is rare for me to summarize a newspaper article, but this is a must read. Here is the link to the article.

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Information on iBooks 2, iBook Author, & iTunes U

Douglas Green — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:40:55 +0000

In case you missed this on Jan 20, 2012 Apple roles out iBooks 2. Try starting at the ten minute point. iBook author comes next. Skip to 49 minute point for new iTunes U app.

Here is a comment on the iBooks concept. You can’t afford Apple’s education revolution but it is the future. @zecool @dcannell

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Kindergarten: A book for teachers and parents

Douglas Green — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:36 +0000

KINDERGARTEN: Tattle-Tales, Tools, Tactics, Triumphs, and Tasty Treats for Teachers and Parents by Susan Case(©2011, AWOC.Com Publishing: Denton, TX) is full of great advice for educators and parents dealing with this critical age group. If you believe that getting preschool and kindergarten right is important, this book is for you. It has many endearing stories and will give you hundreds of ideas and websites to help with behavior, reading, disabilities, science experiments, and cooking. Click the icon below to purchase a book for yourself and your favorite kindergarten teachers and parents.

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