Learning from Doctorow’s ‘With a Little Help’

By Claude Almansi Editor, Accessibility Issues This story is from Cory Doctorow’s new collection, “With a Little Help”. Visit craphound.com/walh to buy the whole audio book on CD, a paperback copy in one of 4 covers, or a super-limited hard cover. This story, and the whole text of “With a Little Help”, are licensed under [...]

Questions About Teacherless Online Classes

By Lynn Zimmerman Editor, Teacher Education Science fiction has often used human interaction with the all-knowing computer as a plot device. Generally, computers have been portrayed in the genre as either evil masters of the world or the benevolent caretakers of the human race. These stories immediately came to mind when I read the NY [...]

Science Fairs Failing?

By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education As a scientist, you’d think I’d really be in favor of science fairs. A recent article by Amy Harmon in the New York Times (“It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging,”* 4 Feb. 2011), among others, laments the decline of science fair competitors. The Los [...]

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