I would assume this was obvious, but apparently it is not. So I’m dedicating a post to the fact that Education Reformers are standing in the way of their own progress when they evaluate new educational systems with old educational…
For months and perhaps years, there has been an ongoing debate about getting rid of or changing the face of Humanities majors in Higher Education, largely spawned by the volatile job market for recent graduates. One post on Thought Catalog…
A common misconception is that the purpose of school is to learn concepts. Learn lots of facts, figures, equations, dates…memorize famous people’s names, faces and accomplishments…master your times tables and grammatical structure. The real value of an education is in…
Faced with an impossible task — ranking and comparing the potential and/or performance of students — that may not even be worthwhile to evaluate, our educational system has developed practices that are inaccurate at best and downright dangerous at worst.…
There is plenty of buzz around Ed Tech; there is SXSW Edu, Startup Weekend Edu, and of course Sal Khan’s face plastered all over business and tech publications. But why is the field still full of horrendously designed websites, incomplete…
Something I’ve been thinking about is the implication of our information overload society. What will learning look like in the future? Will skills replace knowledge as the mark of an accomplished, interesting person? Will “prodigy”-like behavior become more common, since…
This is an excerpt from a journal entry I wrote 1.5 years ago, that I think is important to keep in mind: A lot of attention in current literature about mathematics education reform has been drawn to the fact that…
In response to: “What Makes a Great Teacher? Finally, We’ve Got Some Answers” (Take Part) Remember when your teacher would say “Okay someone is coming in today to observe so everyone be on your best behavior” and proceeded to act a…
In response to: “Education is the Work of Teachers, Not Hackers” (The New Republic) This sounds like the typical snobbery of a humanities devotee. Yes, humanities are worthwhile. But if we have a resource crunch and a money crunch, wouldn’t…
Recently, as part of his lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Howard Gardner gave an overview of his lauded Multiple Intelligences theory and discussed some possible applications of his ideas in the field of Education. I went with…
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