Entertain and eduation your child on-the-go with my iPhone Apps.

You can now get Grandparent Games on your iPhone and iPod Touch. Five Little Monkeys, Alphabet Animations, and words built from Consonant-Vowel-Consonant clusters will help you little one learn the alphabet and how to spell short words.

See all our Apps for the Phone and iPod Touch.

Milo, my grandson, will enter first grade in September 2011. I find this news so frightening I hardly know where to start.

It is time for me to start building an alternative. We will construct an online First Grade curriculum. It will be an Alternative Learning Place (ALP), housed wherever we can find the space. The ALP day will focus around projects and activities and will, of course, all be learning by doing.

Visit either of my blogs, Papa Talks or Education Outrage, for more information including what activities that will make up the curricula and where the ALPs will be established.

Visit the Alternative Learning Place website
for the latest news.

We have all gone to school. We all know that school is organized around academic subjects like math, English, history, and science. This book asks why?

How else might school be organized? There is an easy answer to this: organize school around thought processes. In 1892, when the American high school was designed, we didn’t know much about thought processes. Now we do. It is time to re-think school.

Read the full book premise here.

Read the updated first four chapters of the book or
email your friends about the book.

Preview last updated 13 November 2009.

New online MBA Program available! Roger Schank and BES La Salle have partnered to develop a virtual Story-Centered Curriculum MBA Program. The curriculum is more practical than traditional MBA programs, and is geared toward students who:

• Work in family businesses
• Wish to become entrepreneurs
• Plan to work in a large corporation

All courses are structured as stories in which students play a leading role, solving problems much like those they will face in the real world of business. This time we will be able to do things that were not possible decades ago.

Engines for Education is proud to announce the formation of the world’s first alternative online, learn by doing, high school. This is a four-year high school where only one curriculum is followed each year. Students will be admitted into this curriculum in September, 2010. They will matriculate at schools that have agreed to offer this curriculum.

Learn more about the Alternative High School.

From today's Chronicle of Higher Education, just in time, we have the Obama administration deciding that:

"Corporate donors encouraged by the Obama administration will spend at least $260-million over the next four years to help improve student achievement in mathematics and science through specially designed television programs and video games."

Sounds like a plan: get the voters who can't think to be able to think by teaching math and science to them. It's just that they didn't take enough algebra.

Read Education Outrage, Roger Schank’s blog about the nation's education system.

If a person doesn’t get smarter as a result of experience he is called dumb. My new goal is not to build intelligent machines but rather to build an intelligently organized and indexed knowledge base that is easiliy accessible and gets smarter over time.

Go to Corporate Memory

Cave Men did not point and click. People were not built to find information. Enterprises today are in need of channeling the right information to the right person at the right time.

Go to Intelligent Enterprise Software

All training has to involve real experiences. Companies say they want to train their employees better, but they always leave out the end of the sentence that tells you what they are really thinking (without spending too much money).

Find out more about Roger’s work in training.

Companies say they want to innovate better. What they mean is that they want to hire innovation experts who will help bring out the innovator in everyone, so they can feel good about themselves. If they wanted to innovate they would hire those unruly and annoying people who actually have something unusual to say.

Go to the Innovation page to find out more.