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Colorado schoolhouse (1895 vintage)
A few miles from the New Mexico border, in Chromo, Colorado: Difficult to tell how many rooms; it could have had up to four classrooms at one point, I reckon. The belfry is still there, but the bell...
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No air conditioning in your classroom? Maasai school in Tanzania
Another photo illustrating classroom technology in different cultures.Filed under: Africa, Classroom technology, Education, Travel Tagged: Africa, Classroom technology, Education, Maasai, Tanzania, Travel
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THIS kid wants to get his homework done! Astonishing photo from Manila
You had a clean, well-lighted nook somewhere in the house to do your homework, and you thought it was tough? Some kids don’t even have that, but seem to have such a burning desire to get their homework...
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Wisdom: How to tell your classroom technology helps
This is much an encore post from a couple of years ago. Wise man Alfie Kohn Tweeted a photo of this list by Bill Ferriter. I’d blogged about it before. It’s still solid, and most school administrators...
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School in distant, difficult classrooms: Kenya
Photo from Heidi Totten, who is spearheading a campaign to get desks for schools like this one in Kenya: Ms. Totten, working with a group called 100 Humanitarians (Entrepreneurs Changing the World),...
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Learning economics on Christmas vacation: What’s a bank run?
In education we miss out on most information technological innovation. Textbooks were notoriously dull when books were the chief medium found in schools. Schools took 60 years to make progress in...
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Should teachers make videos for classroom use? Economics edition
Mary McGlasson teaches economics at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona. She makes videos for use in class, and out of class, and by others, on key economic concepts. I’ve used her videos in...
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Distant and difficult classrooms: Syria, 2016
Students in war-riven Syria go to school, in a cave. Education is even more important in war.
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Distant and difficult classrooms: Yemen 2017
From the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross): Two things essential for a classroom: Student, and teacher. Ponder that next time your local school board denies raises to teachers. And...
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Distant, difficult and broken classrooms: South Sudan, 2016
Millions of students across the world miss educations they should be getting, due to war, famine, weather or poverty. What are the odds this boy will, within a few years, take up a gun to fight in a...
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