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Learning should be delicious, not boring

Rob Barrett would teach kids about chemistry by feeding them Pop Tarts at the breakfast table. Which might make Kellogg’s a little nervous…

May 5, 2022

Learning should be delicious, not boring

May 5, 2022

Learning about a world outside the car window

Knowledge is like air — everywhere and not necessarily noticeable.

Jan 4, 2021

Learning about a world outside the car window

Jan 4, 2021

AI can kick you in the rear a lot safer than personal trainers

Just when people believed it safe to leave the house and go back to the gym, the pandemic pulled them back in again.

Dec 12, 2020

AI can kick you in the rear a lot safer than personal trainers

Dec 12, 2020

Now’s the time to hit the brakes on old ways of teaching … and invest in edtech

Pushing a virtual ton of shiny technology into a classroom and reciting instructions to dozens of young ears isn’t much more useful than…

Nov 20, 2020

Now’s the time to hit the brakes on old ways of teaching … and invest in edtech

Nov 20, 2020

AI can upskill college freshmen missing time over COVID-19

“Upskilling” is one of those terms you’re supposed to know if you’re a jargon-loving, business type.

Oct 29, 2020

AI can upskill college freshmen missing time over COVID-19

Oct 29, 2020

How we can help children engage better in the modern classroom

Many students with classroom engagement issues were virtually shoved out into the cold by what COVID-19 did to classroom structure in 2020.

Oct 12, 2020

How we can help children engage better in the modern classroom

Oct 12, 2020

Edward Van Halen was the world’s greatest music teacher

The world lost one of its greatest teachers when Edward Van Halen died.

Oct 9, 2020

Edward Van Halen was the world’s greatest music teacher

Oct 9, 2020

Using AI to help immigrants’ children get the modern education they deserve

By Tony Hicks

Oct 5, 2020

Using AI to help immigrants’ children get the modern education they deserve

Oct 5, 2020

Does halting standard admissions testing during a pandemic make sense?

By Tony Hicks

Sep 25, 2020

Does halting standard admissions testing during a pandemic make sense?

Sep 25, 2020

By Tony Hicks

Imagine the long, tedious family trip, when the kids’ phones run dry and they start moaning about whether everyone is there yet.

Aug 10, 2020

Aug 10, 2020

Tony Hicks

Tony Hicks

Tony is an award-winning journalist who spent more than 20 years writing news, columns, features, and music and film criticism for Bay Area News Group.

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