A lot of edubloggers are focusing on what School 2.0 should look like. I really like the idea of looking ahead (and hopefully planning ahead) for the inevitable progression of modern education. But the more that I think about what a technologically and pedagogically progressive school should look like, I …
Although this post isn’t in direct response to Hockey90’s Thinking About Thought, I believe it accents my post quite well, so I suggest you read it too. The concept of critical mass has always been intriguing to me, but until recently I never saw the application to thought, teaching, or …
This video calls into question what we are willing to accept as reality. If we are willing to accept unreal beauty as something that we should strive for, what else will we accept? Do we have unreal expectations about money, politics, and love? It is my position that entertainment is …
There is nothing so sinister as ignoring the wealth of voices around us: the ones that could make us laugh if we only knew the language, the ones that could make us think if we only had the time, and the ones that could make us learn if we only …
Disclaimer: The following is a work in progress. I am writing an essay with/for my Core 3 students about the following question: Should students have grades? The first six letters hold an inordinate amount of power, and frankly, it makes me sick. The A’s, B’s and C’s have too long …
This is truly fantastic. I can’t imagine linking every single word. The one question that I think of after reading this, is why don’t we link more words to dictionaries? Why don’t we have the context for more of our concepts? I really think that looking for the answers behind …
We can never know what the future holds. For her, or for anyone. She is this thing, bright and new that I can’t quite see the end of. I want to know what she will be at 13, but I never want to stop seeing her at 0. There is …
I love looking for fresh images, ones that I haven’t used before in my writing. The trouble is that cliches are so much easier. I can talk about finding needles in a haystack or being dead as a doornail, but these things lack passion, they lack authenticity. So, I have …
When I was in high school, I was in Into The Woods. I sang and danced as the Wolf, lecherously hungry for little red riding hood. The whole play was about trying to get the thing you want most, and the more that I think about it, that is what …
The wiki has been keeping me pretty busy. Version 1.0 of idiosyncratically useful websites will be ready in a couple of weeks. I plan on actually letting people know about it then. I am still struggling, however, with all of the excess great ideas from other people. I wish that …