Month: January 2016

28. If you had to focus the rest of your working days on one problem, what would it be? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 28, 2016 There is an incredibly snarky cartoon someone made in MS Paint that places WiFi below food/shelter on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This is silly …

27. What do you donate to? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 27, 2016 One of my favorite philanthropists is Hanna Hart. She is a youtuber that started the Have a Hart Day, which takes aim at the notion that you can only give with money. She believes that many …

26. How do you internalize your gender? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 26, 2016 I’m so glad that Dad Bods are a thing now. For a while there, I was worried that I was going to have to start working out more or losing weight, but now I realize that …

25. When is it time to give up? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 25, 2016 As much as I try and avoid it, I yell at my kids. Conversations about getting shoes on, brushing hair, or turning off the computer all start out very civil. I will make the …

24. What is the most important rule in your classroom? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 25, 2016 There is nothing that frustrates me more than apathy. The statements of “whatever” or “I don’t care” that would occasionally come out of my students’ mouths would make me cringe. It wasn’t just that …

23. What 90s song taught you the most important lesson? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 23, 2016 For your time it’s written out Work means nothing by itself Selection Selection kills the old Selection Selection breathes on its own On its own These days are numbered I can tell …

22. Have we Godwin’s Law-ed ourselves out of having rational discussions? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 22, 2016 I have been watching The Man in the High Castle a lot lately. In this Amazon Prime television series and corresponding Phillip K. Dick Novel, the allies did not win World …

21. What’s the point of playing fair? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 21, 2016 My kids are fair-mongers. They see the whole world as a great injustice being put upon them. The indignity of an earlier bedtime than their parents. The inequality of no dessert for one child who …

20. What are you geeking out about right now? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 20, 2016 No matter how beautifully designed computers get or how intuitive and visually pleasing our software is, there is an amazing sameness to almost everything that happens on a laptop or desktop machine. There …