Greetings!

I wanted to share an article, "Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them" from the New York Times series on Math and learning. 

In his article, Benedict dives right into an interesting curricular junction between cognitive science and education and thankfully, mentions the junction of the two as "awkward" at best. 

Greetings,

We're very proud to announce that the Harvard Business School's Harbus Foundation Venture Philanthropy Fund selected PLML from among a select group of innovative non-profits as the recipient of their 2009 Harbus Venture Philanthropy Project Grant!

The grant provides funding and pro-bono consulting assistance to help us develop organizational measursements that will guide and improve our impact. 

Greetings all,

Development of the multiplication tool is progressing nicely, and proving to be a unique learning experience. We have almost completed the technical specifications, and are looking to resolve some challenging questions we've posed to ourselves.

Greetings, educatorati!

We'd like to announce the creation of the Boolify Toolset, which is an extension of the very popular Boolean search tool, Boolify.

The Boolify Toolset will become an information literacy toolset; designed to help teach search and research more deeply than before.

Greetings, fellow educators!

I'd like to invite your participation in our next tool, an unnamed Multiplication teaching tool. The tool is designed to teach multi-digit multiplication through a variety of methods, including standard, Lattice and partial products. 

We're asking educators to provide feedback and input into the design - would you like to be part of the design team? Let us know!

Cheers, 
--Dave

In case you had been reading about Bing, well, time to shift focus. Google Wave just (steam)rolled ashore. Google Wave isn't a site; it's an engine. It isn't simply a service; it's also a series of protocols and development tools. It's exciting, and... 

Google Wave is, well, simultaneously tough to wrap around, and incredibly tantalizing. From their site: 

 I'd like to take a minute to introduce The Alpheios Project, a fascinating project developed by equally fascinating individuals we became acquainted with at NECC. 

From their description: 

In teaching and learning, many of us have focused solely on using computers for education. It's easy, in the social media world, to view computers as the primary means for delivering innovative instruction. What's another way to think about applying innovative technologies for education?

In the computing days of yore, I spent many fine, sunny youthful days playing The Incredible Machine, a game-physics-simulator produced by Microsoft. 

The Incredible Machine - probably on its 25th anniversary or so - is long gone from store shelves. Yet, physics simulators are alive and well. They're also worthwhile programs to bring into the classroom to describe a variety of phenomina in a playful way. 

Greetings, fellow educators!

We have some exciting news to share with you - our fledgeling partnership with Citizen Schools, an organization focused on expanding the learning day for low-income children around the country! We sharing space at their Boston HQ office, while developing a range of educational technologies with the support of our two superb summer Interns, who will introduce themselves shortly. 

We would also like to offer a sample presentation that we're developing; your feedback would be wonderful!