Kids care. They just need a place to apply their caring. In nearly all forms of education, we require students to care about their future well-being in an abstract way. "Practice these problems so …
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Tech enhanced learning
The potential for online learning to revolutionize education is huge. With data analysis, natural language processing and machine learning, students can have their own customized learning …
Simplicity
Cooking dinner Playing the piano Riding a bike Walking on the beach Is that really what life is all about? Or is it Feeling important Sending emails Making change Leading others Is that …
Ratios and priorities
If we really valued education, how could we allow 27 five year olds to be taught be one adult at a time? If anyone has spent more than 10 minutes with a five year old, you know that having one adult …
Good, bad, a story
How's everything going? Good, it's going well! How's everything going? Bad, it's not going well. How's everything going? Truthfully, any response I have is just a story. It's a narrative …
Memorization or knowing it by heart
There's a huge difference between memorizing something and knowing it by heart. As Seth Godin so brilliantly pointed out in his podcast, Akimbo, memorization is useless when you could just look it up …
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