Should Teachers Be Selling Lesson Plans?
While it is an interesting alternative for teachers to have the option of selling their lesson plans, realistically the culture of teachers nationwide is one of sharing, not selling.
While it is an interesting alternative for teachers to have the option of selling their lesson plans, realistically the culture of teachers nationwide is one of sharing, not selling.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Through Architecture For Humanity's "Do A Latte Good" campaign, you can bid on coffee with one of our great supporters, and in return they'll contribute to help reconstruction efforts post-Typhoon Ketsana.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
Watch the education forum here. We have a powerhouse panel including the Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter, Stanford Professor Linda Darling Hammond, and NYC Chancellor Joel Klein.
Lynda Resnick's Blog | Lynda Resnick | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
Researchers around the world are hard at work on cures for most every ailment and disease. But until now, there was no system - let alone incentive - ...
Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
If there was a better day to announce the News Cooperative, I can't think of it. After Mayor Daley's budget address, the two major papers ran the same cover: a 24-year-old kidnapping.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
Writers will probably always want to keep control of their work, but who is to say that the particular collaboration between a writer and her editor results in the best possible book?
Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact
Here's a letter by Patti Smith (not that one), a Detroit elementary school teacher of visually impaired students, sent to writer Cory Doctorow. She di...
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.
David Bollier | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media
An open culture, a sharing economy and a digital republic: the foundations for this new world actually matured during the nightmarish Bush years, beneath its contemptuous gaze.
Daniel Sinker | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
What's got billionare Mark Zuckerberg so blue? Just that his service is claiming perpetual rights to all its 175 million users' content, even if you kill your account.
Disgrasian | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
It sounds a helluva lot like Tila Tequila believes in censorship. Of the very same medium that made her, which, frankly, we find shockingly ungrateful.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics