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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Group Work 2
Certainly the topic of the hour: http://www.nais.org/about/article.cfm?ItemNumber=156788&sn.ItemNumber=4181&tn.ItemNumber=147271 I get the point, and I know Pat Bassett is arguing in favor of a particular position, but I am reminded that correlation is not causation. Also, the Nobel Prize information seems to … Continue reading
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Why a school should *not* run smoothly all the time
School administrators often seem to have a primary goal to make the school (or their little part of it) run smoothly. To be fair, I too find it easier when the things I am in charge of run smoothly. But … Continue reading
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“Group work”
This article is worth reading at some point, I think. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2012/07/study_deeper_learning_needs_st_1.html Apart from content- or tech-specific skills, perhaps, I think the biggest challenge in pedagogy at SJS is finding successful ways to encourage the appropriate mix of group and individual … Continue reading
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Why I teach
Why: I believe most people will achieve more of their goals, in a way that’s more thoughtful of others, and hence make the world a better place both for themselves and for others, the more they think for themselves, the … Continue reading
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Assume a cow is a sphere…
In my previous post on Emerson, I noted that I am reading Cornel West’s The American Evasion of Philosophy and while he self-admittedly has a political position to make with his book, his opening section shows a much more complete portrait … Continue reading
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Emerson
I am reading Cornel West’s The American Evasion of Philosophy and while he self-admittedly has a political position to make with his book, his opening section shows a much more complete portrait of Emerson’s thought than either the Self-Reliance or American Scholar essay … Continue reading
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Education Then and Now
(more from that same email exchange–on a roll, right?) My correspondent and I were discussing whether kids today were “as well educated” as kids a generation or two ago. I suggested that the drop in standardized test scores paradoxically suggested … Continue reading
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Creativity Then and Now…
from a follow-up email with my colleague) My considered, but not researched, judgment is that there is at least as much creativity now as when we were kids, but it’s expressed in many more ways. There are still people who … Continue reading
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Tools vs Apps
A colleague pointed out the following quote to me from a blog he follows, basically saying in his email that he was afraid the writer is correct. “I wonder if the ‘app-ification’ of computing is turning out to be the … Continue reading
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