Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

What do students want in an e-textbook?

Technology & Learning has a great graphic in the May issue of its magazine that highlights the features that secondary students would like to see in electronic textbooks [click on image below to see larger version]. Be sure to read the whole article. The data are taken from Project Tomorrow’s latest Speak Up survey.

If you’re not a regular reader of the free Tech&Learning magazine, you should be! Here are a few other articles from the latest issue that may be of interest:

Nine reasons to Twitter in schools

Profile of Max McGee, President of the Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA’s cool.hub project sounds really awesome!)

The AV Club Next Generation

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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