I’ve been trying to work through some ideas on how fear operates in a networked society. At Webstock in New Zealand, I gave a talk called “Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?!” Building on this, I gave a talk at SXSW called “The Power of Fear in Networked Publics.” While my thinking in [...]

My first talk! Given at the STANYS 2011 Physics Breakfast on November 8th, 2011 in Rochester, New York Links to resources mentioned in the talk: Feynman’s blackboard at his death Hake’s “Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses“ Bowling Ball & ...

From Hacked Education: Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s ...

Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Download the high-quality video clips for each collision. Discuss. Tagged: demonstration, Khan Academy, physics, teaching, technology, video

What is the future of learning? Vision #1: Doing Old Things in New Ways Vision #2: Doing New Things in New Ways (Thanks to David Smith of the Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science & Technology for bringing the Cyberlearning video to my attention) Tagged: cyberlearning, Khan Academy, technology

Google Plus is now open to everyone, and they’ve announced huge improvements to the service at the same time. I’ll add this announcement to The Best Resources For Learning What Google+ Is All About. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Flarryferlazzo.edublogs.org%2F2011%2F09%2F20%2Fgoogle-plus-is-now-open-to-everyone%2F'; addthis_title = ...

Today’s post comes from Daryl Taylor, a high school physics and astronomy teacher in Connecticut. It was originally posted in response to this question on the NSTA Physics Listserv: “Has anyone had students collaborate with another class in a different locality for any class projects or assignments?” I have, and love to, run collabs with various ...

TinyEYE Students are Ready for the World “The reason I am so passionate about this is because our children do succeed, they do graduate from TinyEYE.  They become confident, competent communicators who are ready for the world.” ~Marnee Hi Everyone, When a camera crew arrived at the TinyEYE headquarters on Friday, the first thing I thought was, ...

Spring fever is in full-swing and both teachers and students alike are looking forward to summer vacation. Its times like these that call for a little something new to shake things up and keep everybody going for another month (or two). A few weeks ago I stumbled across a site called Kabongo that will help put an end to spring fever in your ...

Download the original video files: Red Birds and Falling Block Red and Blue Birds Yellow Birds Tagged: angry birds, lab, projectile motion, technology, video analysis