Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/07/2012

• The Purpose of Education is… : 2¢ Worth

  An excellent piece by David Warlick on his favorite session of Educon. I love this thought of how to use monopoly and to make a point of how we need to learn to change the rules of the game and think creatively. Interesting piece.

  tags: education news

• TEDEducation's Channel - YouTube

  Ted's education channel

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• Getting Ready for a Guinness World Record - The Spangler Effect Season 01 Episode 01 - YouTube

  A science channel for your classroom. I love his field-wide classroom experiment.

  tags: education video science news

• IntelligentChannel's Channel - YouTube

  A new channel on YouTube called the "intelligent channel." I always hesitate when someone defines for me what intelligent conversation is, but I've subscribed anyway just to take a look.

  tags: education youtube news professionaldevelopment

• The Intelligent Channel Launches (with Colum McCann Interview) | Open Culture

  New youtube channel called the "intelligent channel" launches to establish "a home for intelligent conversation." This is part of YouTube's initiative to have more original programming.  This article on OpenCulture gives the overview of the purpose for the channel.

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