May 19, 2012 | Blog, EdTech, Entrepreneurship
Talk the Talk. Walk the Walk. That’s all good, but during the past couple of weeks at 30Hands, we discovered some important lessons about “Talking the Walk”. What does that mean? I’ll get to that, but first let me review the old concepts. There...
Apr 15, 2012 | Creativity, Innovation, Learning, Multitasking, Tangents
I recently participated in a conversation stemming from the question, “Do Schools Kill Students’ Creativity?” I wondered if perhaps the first question should be “what is creativity” then followed by “how do we teach creativity or...
Apr 9, 2012 | Blended Learning, EdTech
Online learning is great! But, in class learning is great, too! How do we decide? It’s important to realize that it’s not an either/or solution. We need to look forward and think about what we want our kids to learn. If we shield our children from the...
Aug 18, 2010 | Innovation
The subtitle of this post could be the original classic — “How I spent my summer vacation”. If you have a prepared mind — or an obsessive mind — you can see things in the mundane that no one else in their right mind will see. Being...
Jul 13, 2010 | Innovation
I flipped the Charlie Card across the pad, rode the stairs up, and burst into the open doors of the subway car waiting to transport me to Cambridge. Today was going to be Day 1 of Anything Goes Laband I was really looking forward to the experience. There were not many...