Learning & Teaching

Found this gem on Open Teacher Talk.

More Clay Burell in a blog post about America’s disdain for teachers: Somebody said “A person ages into the face he deserves.” The same is true of a civilization. If America has aged into a face of illiteracy, innumeracy, historical, geographic, and scientific ignorance, it’s no mystery why. According to Burell, teachers are respected in [...]

Love this guy! Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution He speaks of a “crisis of human resources” that parallels the climate crisis. Here’s just a tidbit: “Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go [...]

When I read certain blog posts, I often have “nailonthehead” moments. This means, of course, that as I’m reading, I’m shaking my head vigorously up and down, muttering under my breath, “Yes! Exactly! You hit the Nail. On. The. Head!” Here’s one from Assorted Stuff: If we assume, as the report notes, “a growing body of [...]

“If institutional education refuses to adapt to the landscape of the information age, it WILL die, and it SHOULD die.” An Open Letter to Educators Not without a fight, it seems.

So, once we rip it apart (the education system, that is), how do we put it back together? Well, for one thing I think technology can help. I’d like to see more classrooms like this one where Mark Lada teaches a 6th grade lesson about electromagnets at Sarah Banks Middle School in Walled Lake, MI. [...]

Well, here it is, Part I of my rambling diatribe on education reform. . .After attending a district budget workshop and school committee meeting last night at which our superintendent presented three scenarios for chopping $5 million from next year’s school budget, I’m feeling sort of bitter and desperate and reflective. I’ve been reading a [...]