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” …
16. What do your kids think is most important in life? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 16, 2016 My children know what they want. They want to have a snack. They want to play Minecraft. They want to have a playdate. They want to play with a particular toy. …
15. How do you know you’re learning? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 15, 2016 There are two types of learning: Things that I have not yet considered. Things that I have not yet done. Learning is held within the words “not yet”. Once the learning occurs, the “not yet” dissolves …
14. What kind of noise do you need to work? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 14, 2016 I fidget, relentlessly. I have two rings that do not stay on my fingers for more than 20 minutes at a time. I run my fingers through my hair and rub my beard …
13. What do you hope to see from this last year of the Obama administration? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 13, 2016 My first smartphone was a blackberry. It was the kind with the little trackball in the middle and a physical keyboard that was an absolute joy to type on. …
12. What are three books that defined you? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) January 12, 2016 There are very few books that I read more than once. Even fewer are the books that I feel compelled to come back to again and again because they feel like home. These books …