Flickr Photo by Ilkka K00 I just got off the phone with a market researcher for a major (textbook) publishing company, and we had a wonderful conversation about innovation, learning tools, teachers,…  They’re asking some pretty interesting questions...

My wrist watch is not digital When talking about the differences between our generation (my generation) and our school youngsters’, I frequently point at my watch (when I remembered to pick it up on my way out of the house).  I explain that my watch...

Science has traditionally been done by scientists in their labs, trying to prove or disprove some hypothosis.  Their experiments work or they do not work.  They learn something important or the do not.  We learned, when the result were significant and...

Well, my vacation is over.  I leave for the airport in a few hours on United Airlines (gear under my arm) for Lexington, Kentucky, by way of Chicago. It’s been glorious to be at home, enjoying salad lunches and evening walks with Brenda, working into...

It’s one of those ideas that has occurred to me during those moments when a perfect example presents itself, but then loses itself in the stack of other ideas of similar birth and death.  But here, at the beginning of the school year (at least in the...