Everyone's Favorite Physics Professor

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

By SARA RIMER [from NYTimes.com]

"Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures." I'm not in a position to evaluate his PCK, but I think it's interesting, the concept that now everyone can have a great physics professor and not just the one their institution happens to employ. - Katie

Test Your Vocabulary And Feed The Hungry

I heard this on Morning Edition (NPR) this morning and could not resist.

http://www.freerice.com/

Text messages may be classroom conduit

"Classes have not kept up with the changes in the way people communicate outside school, said William Kist, an associate professor at Kent State University who studies how new media influence English classrooms.

" 'Shouldn't we be preparing kids for the literacy lives they're going to be leading for the next 50 to 60 years?' " From the Columbus Dispatch