The Power of Tumblr. The Beauty of Strangers.

detroitsomething:

My name is Ray Stoeser.  I am a high school teacher living and working in Detroit.  Below is a testament to the power of Tumblr and social networking.  Most importantly it is about how 554 complete strangers helped change the lives of my Detroit students.

The Power of Tumblr.  The Beauty of Strangers.

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You know how I’ve said over and over again that this community on Tumblr is amazing?  Take a moment and read this.  Not only will it make you proud to be a part of this blogging community, it will remind you that there is real, genuine good in this world.

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do for money. It’s something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we’re going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we’re gone.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-joining-club-that-would.html (via neil-gaiman)

Source: neil-gaiman

infoneer-pulse: At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home. Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy, where some parents and educators have a message: computers and schools don’t mix. » via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content) Wow, excellent read.

infoneer-pulse:

At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait

The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.

Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers, and many policy makers say it is foolish to do otherwise. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy, where some parents and educators have a message: computers and schools don’t mix.

» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)

Wow, excellent read.

Source: The New York Times