In the last several weeks I have been thinking more and more about what is important to know, which are important skills to have in the present, and the near future, for high school graduates. It would seem, with the advent of increasing globalism and increasing use of computers and internet technology that there must [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Facebook…REALLY??
February 27, 2010
In the last several months I have spend an inordinate amount of time in coffee shops (I’m in one right now!), and most of my blog posts have begun here. Many times they start out as exercises in impromptu writing (as you may be able to guess…). In the time I’ve spent in these caffeine [...]
Why do we study?
February 26, 2010
Yesterday’s post about polymaths (e.g. ‘generalists’) and the notion that we, by how we teach and study, minimize the number of these ‘left-handed’ thinkers is still in my mind. I have written a number of posts trying to show how deeply and fundamentally our world has changed, but we still teach students mostly the same [...]
on generalists…
February 25, 2010
I started reading a biography of Winston Churchill yesterday (a book I have had for several years and have read several times). While reading this biography, for the first time I realized how many things that Winston Churchill had accomplished, and had done…even before the First World War… He had been involved in skirmishes in [...]
Some of the tools you likely have…
February 24, 2010
I’ve made some lists of the tools I use, but today I want to talk about some of the ubiquitous tools that almost all teachers either have or have access to. As with any job, it is always worthwhile to take care of the tools you have. In the computer world, the tools we use [...]
A thought experiment…
February 23, 2010
Imagine that I have a time machine, and that I have the chance to swap two people from their times and lives to the other’s. For this thought experiment I chose a woman in her early 20’s—from a 1,000 years ago (most likely from somewhere in northwest Europe)with another young woman about the same age [...]
More soldering iron tips…
February 22, 2010
A couple weeks ago, I posted about what is important if you want to get better at soldering, today I will continue with this topic… as I already mentioned, becoming obsessed upon keeping the soldering iron tip clean and well ‘tinned’ is the goal of effective soldering. I think that this is important enough to [...]
there are still some newspapers worth reading!
February 21, 2010
People who have known me for a long time will agree that I have certainly got my money out of newspapers. I have been an on again off again current events, and foreign news junkie since the 70’s, and I have also dealt with an (ahem…) addiction to crossword puzzles and Sudoku over the years [...]
There is more to read…
February 20, 2010
It seems that we live in some miraculous times… We are in the midst of several cultural and technological revolutions. People who live during revolutions usually don’t have many positive things to say about it, whereas here and now, most people are oblivious to them. I have written a lot about the increasing amounts of [...]
Middle School Confidential…
February 19, 2010
Every time I come to a middle school or high school to work as a substitute teacher I always ask the students a lot of questions. Maybe it’s just my own middle school background seeping in through the edges of my consciousness, buy irrespective of how many great teachers, how well the school is run, [...]
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