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Peter Scharf

New Orleans

I loved the Nobel-I am like most of us a hybrid-I have a doctorate in Human Development and Education from Harvard, have founded several large companies and have worked as a consultant for several of the largest educational and technology companies in the US involved in criminal justice and education. I am currently a Professor of Public Health at Tulane University and worry about catching murderers, either after they kill someone or hopefully before as I explained in my talk at Nobel through evidence based prevention. There is so much to do. I think the Web 2.0 concept can be both a development platform and context matrix to revolutionize education and criminal justice. I want to start before they catch up to us.

Peter Scharf is at home at www.cslj.net.

Recently, Peter Scharf...

  • created Saving young murderers/victims in New Orleans over 3 years ago.

    A recent New Orleans Times Picayune article today published some of my ideas on youth murder patterns emerging in the US(especially, NOLA) which is focused and intentional. How might new peer mentoring and other -prevention programs be efficiently delivered using a Web 2.0 framework to the highest risk youth to efficiently save these obviously enormous personal and financial costs? Jeff Frazier and I have been pondering this issue. Assuming putting a young person in j...

  • commented on Web 2.0 Education over 3 years ago.

    Hi Karen:  Thank you so much . Inquiry learning describes instruction in which students build knowledge through direct inductive experimentation. Jerome Bruner advocated in Towards a Theory of Instruction this model. When used in the US SAT scores were more than 20% higher than they are today. The teachers role is to be a co-inquirer with the student. Not knowing what the answer is to a problem is a plus uising this model. In the curriculum I developed using PC Works-pre Web and Win...

  • edited Web 2.0 Education over 3 years ago.

    CISCO has an enormous opportunity in innovating in curriculum using Web 2.0 technology to enhance inquiry learning by students. This potential in my view is largely un-tapped. The United States has fallen into a knowledge telling mode of learning in its No Child Left Behind educational strategy, with the result being that many children may find it hard to compete in the emerging cognition based knowledge economy. Creating a cadre of teacher users who will conduct inquiry learning an...

  • created Web 2.0 Education over 3 years ago.

    CISCO has an enormous opportunity in innovating in curriculum using Web 2.0 technology to enhance inquiry learning by students. This potential in my view is largely un-tapped. The United States has fallen into a knowledge telling mode of learning in its No Child Left Behind educational strategy, with the result being that many children may find it hard to compete in the emerging cognition based knowledge economy. Creating a cadre of teacher users who will conduct inquiry learning an...