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The following was written for the Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg Blogathon as I have a lot of respect for the work of Alfie Kohn (and probably would for Pasi Sahlberg as well once I learn more about his work). —————————————————————————————————————————————————– I think parents are scared. At the very least I know that I’m scared. […]
January 27, 2013
A blog post by Dan Myer, Pattern Matching In Khan Academy, recently caught my attention. I’m a huge fan of the power of pattern matching, so I was curious to hear about how Khan Academy my be leveraging it. The blog post references another blog post by Stephanie Chang (an engineer at Khan), Takeaways From […]
January 10, 2013
I was just doing a thought experiment around the idea of students having a clicker in their hand where they could signal how bored they were with the current class. They would be able to push a dial up to 10, with 10 meaning extremely bored. A computer would receive the feedback and aggregate it […]
June 15, 2012
I’ve never loved the statement, “not all students are the same”. It’s generally used to combat overly generalized processes that end up serving all students ineffectively. It’s also used to encourage viewing students as the individuals that they are with distinct talents and passions, rather than blank-faced cogs in an educational machine. As much as […]
June 11, 2012
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has a good description of the problem I see with so much education today: What’s really angering about instructions of this sort is that they imply there’s only one way to put the rotisserie together – their way. And that presumption wipes out all the creativity. Actually there […]
June 7, 2012
This weekend my friends, who had attended public school with me growing up, asked me if I would feel comfortable sending my daughter to the same schools that we attended (it’s a very good public school system in Concord, MA). I had to say no. I wouldn’t be comfortable sending her to the same schools. […]
June 5, 2012
If we want to promote of a love of learning (and that is essentially my only goal in education) we need to promote a love of the process, not a love of the reward. I fell in love with learning again after college. My first startup was finally profitable and I had a little more […]
May 25, 2012
In high school I was notorious for falling asleep at my desk. My teachers would force me to stand at my desk (while my classmates sat) in order to stay awake. It was taken as a sign of disrespect that I was falling asleep. In some ways I was being disrespectful. I was telling the […]
May 25, 2012
People frequently say this when discussing a movie with a great cliffhanger. They understand that the experience of discovery that the movie presents is extremely enjoyable and they don’t want you to miss that feeling. Similarly I wish more educators and parents would think about the development and education of children this way. The process […]
May 21, 2012
I really wish people would stop talking about the personalization revolution in education, where technology will allow us to deliver a personalized learning plan for every student. If you want true personalization you don’t need technology, you need autonomy. The only truly personalized learning is one where the student decides what he or she is […]
February 5, 2013
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