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Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Mordechai Silverstein looks at Masechet Megilah Daf 2. What does the first Mishnah of Megillah tell us about the Mishnah, authority and the justification of the law? The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead. This podcast […]
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Three days of hardfun and rewarding work. Three days of creation. Three days of collaboration. That’s how I’d describe the recently concluded RealSchool Summer Sandbox conference. As I wrote here, prior to travelling to this event in Teaneck, NJ I had no idea what to expect, or if it would be worthwhile at all. As I look […]
Why am I going to a Jewish Education conference called the RealSchool Summer Sandbox? I’m not a Day School educator. I work in Congregational Jewish Education. I’m a religious school director. My focus has been mainly in part time Jewish educational frameworks. What is it about The Sandbox that has intrigued me so much that […]
(This originally appeared on the Jewish Futures blog site, in advance of the February 27th Jewish Futures conference “The role of Bar and Bat Mitzvah in America today”) He was terrified. I mean really scared. As I stood next to him on the bimah, in front of his family and the rest of the congregation, […]
(A litle context: I’m part of a certificate program in Online and Blended Learning Design, through Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School. This post originally appeared on the Open Day School site, which is devoted to Online and Blended learning, and is affiliated with the Yeshiva University School Partnership program.) As I explore the universe of […]
In the past few weeks two articles were posted in the Jewish Daily Forward about how technology will not usher in the messianic age, at least when it comes to Jewish education. In”Digital Learners Can’t Do It On Their Own”, Barry Joseph explains how the human factor – the role of the teacher – is […]
As a newly minted “Technology Integration Educator” in my community, I’m struggling with the definition of my job title. What does the phrase “technology integration” really mean? How do we integrate technology? I can’t help but wonder if, when the overhead projector, or the radio, or even the blackboard for that matter, were introduced into […]
The summer is that glorious time when I get to catch up on all those books I didn’t have time to read during the course of the school year. Along with my beloved escapist novels (at the moment I’m reading Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson) I’ve also started The Connected Educator: Learning and […]
I was listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air” yesterday. It featured Andrew Blum, the author of the just-released “Tubes – A Journey to the Center of the Internet”. The interview (you can access it here), and the book focus on how the virtual space we call “The Cloud” doesn’t exist outside of physical spaces like data […]
The other day, during my morning-drive-to-work ritual, I was listening to NPR’s “The Take Away”. The topic was: “College Students Either Studying as Hard as Ever, or Not Hard Enough.” It was based on a series of studies that seem to have found that college students today study 40% less than their counterparts in 1961. […]
