Podcast Series: Innovations in Education

Explore the full series of eSchool News podcasts hosted by Kevin Hogan—created to keep you on the cutting edge of innovations in education.

Twitter chat to explore the future of internet search

Google and other online gatekeepers recently revised their search algorithms to bring users more personalized information.

How will new web-search formulas adopted by Google, Microsoft, and others affect future scholarship, or students’ understanding of the world? What skills should students be taught in school so they’re prepared to make sense of, and make their mark on, this new digital landscape?

Award-winning educator, speaker, author, and consultant Angela Maiers will address these questions and more in a special Twitter chat hour with eSchool News readers Oct. 19.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other online gatekeepers recently revised their search algorithms in an attempt to bring users more personalized information. This subtle shift has enormous implications for students, researchers, and society at large, Maiers and other experts agree.…Read More

Kindergarten class uses realistic dolls to teach sexual education

Last week, Shanghaiist posted pictures of young children learning about the human body by playing with dolls that feature very lifelike parts, including genitalia with pubic hair, reports the Huffington Post. According to ImagineChina, the agency that provided the images to the Huffington Post, the photos are from Yaolan Kindergarten, a school in Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan province in central China. The pictures were taken in April. The dolls have, naturally, drawn criticism from some parents. “I am worried that it’s not good for the kids to know sexual knowledge so early,” one parent said, according to Shanghai Daily…

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