There are many wonderful and inspiring moments in his talk.

“We’ve used your videos to flip the classroom.”

“Removing the one-size-fits all lecture – a fundamentally dehumanizing experience, no matter how good the teacher”

“This could happen in every classroom…tomorrow.”

And good for Los Altos Public Schools for piloting it.

Too often education reform is focused on trying to improve on the current educational model, which leaves so much opportunity on the table. It’s like sticking to the horse and buggy model and trying to make the buggy better or the horses faster, and ignoring the invention of the automobile.

via Mind – Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits – NYTimes.com.

via Teen Sleep Teens need more sleep, says KS health officer – KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |.

“Dr. Jason Eberhart-Phillips, director of health for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told The Lawrence Journal World that adults need to do more to prevent what he calls “teenage sleep deprivation.”

“a truly rich assessment system would go beyond multiple-choice testing and include measures that encourage greater creativity, show how students arrived at answers, and even allow for collaboration.”

via Weblogg-ed » The Assessment Problem.

via How To Raise A Superstar | Wired Science | Wired.com.

They’re quitting because they’re discouraged and bored, not because they’re dark, depressed, anxious, or neurotic. It’s a myth that creative people have these traits. (Those traits actually shut down creativity; they make people less open to experience and less interested in novelty.) Rather, creative people, for the most part, exhibit active moods and positive affect. They’re not particularly happy—contentment is a kind of complacency creative people rarely have. But they’re engaged, motivated, and open to the world.”

via The Creativity Crisis – Newsweek.

The Way We Live Now – The Why-Worry Generation – NYTimes.com.

via Teen car accidents tied to early school starts – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com.