Author: Ben Wilkoff

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 …

19. How do you feel about the phrase, “Not my secret to share”? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 19, 2016 Secrets are weird. They come from this space of your childhood where you thought that there were huge troves of information that were being kept from you by everyone. …

18. How do you keep #MLKDay in your household? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 18, 2016 My wife’s father is a black man, originally from New Orleans. Because of this, she grew up not knowing which bubble to fill in on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Her teachers told her to …

17. How do you make up your mind? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 17, 2016 I left my wife home with my one and a half year old when she was incredibly sick. She was in pain and I left her because I had something that I “couldn’t miss” …