Share September 10, 2009 marked the launch of the TEDx Toronto talk, the extension of the remarkable TED talk series. If you have not visited the TED site and viewed one of the talks available you are missing a great source of information and inspiration. Recently, the TED organization has allowed extensions of its series [...]
The Slow Movement
Share I was browsing through the TED talks the other day and came upon a very interesting talk by Carl Honore praising ‘slowness.’ (If you have not visited the TED talk site you should; there are over 400 twenty minute talks by famous and enormously talented people available on the site.) This blog post is [...]
No Child Left Inside
"Real" Work
Time for Slow Schools
Share The Sunday New York Times Magazine of May 3/09 featured an excellent article by Peggy Orenstein titled “Kindergarten Cram.” The article reinforces some earlier posts on the Chalkboard that discuss the importance of play for children. Not only does play provide much-needed ‘down-time’ for busy kids but it also serves to support the achievement [...]


