Lois Holzman |

27 Apr Out of Our Heads

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April 27, 2011 I loved Alva Noe's Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. I read it last summer out at Montauk, the ocean beach town I also love (in a similar way—both are inspiring and demand respect). It was a...

22 Apr Creating Curiousity

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April 21, 2011 Here’s some advice. When you’re feeling hopeless about human beings ever learning/deciding to live together peacefully on this planet, watch a TED talk. When you’re feeling alone in your work to make a better world, watch a TED talk. When you’re bored with the same old same old,...

21 Apr An Educational Innovation in Uganda

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April 20, 2011 One evening while studying in England, a young Ugandan man named Peter Nsubuga watched a BBC documentary in the home he was staying. The program was “Children of Africa.” Peter was no stranger to the scenes he watched, having grown up in the very conditions shown on the...

05 Apr Making the Familiar Strange

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April 5, 2011 I just spent two weeks with a community activist who organizes self-help groups for women in rural India, two courageous Pakistani women educators, an American cell biologist who leads improv workshops for scientists, two youth workers from Serbia, and two university-based teacher educators also from Serbia. The Institute’...

04 Apr Educating the Educational Researchers

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April 4, 2011 At the end of the week I travel to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a huge gathering (probably 14,000!) of mostly PhDs and graduate students involved in studying teaching and learning. Over five days, there will be many hundreds of...

April 2011

27 Apr Out of Our Heads

22 Apr Creating Curiousity

21 Apr An Educational Innovation in Uganda

05 Apr Making the Familiar Strange

04 Apr Educating the Educational Researchers