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How Do You Think Predictions Increase Learning?
My final post about James Lang’s book Small Teaching focuses on using prediction as a way of engaging our students before they learn. Lang explains that by asking students to predict an answer or trend or result before they learn about it, they are more likely to...
Conceivable Dreams – Part Four
Be what's possible. Eugene's journey from finding his next meal in a garbage can to a Navy officer to a successful businessman is a tale of finding the possibility in opportunities presented. Tell your story. His story is intertwined with my story. In my earliest...
Waiting for the Last Minute
If you wait until the last minute, then it only takes a minute. I had a student tell me that when I first started teaching physics at West Point. One would think that more preparation would be involved when our country’s military cadets faced challenging...
Look What’s New!
For my last article I thought I would take the time to let you all know about some new tools available to everyone to use with their Chrome browser, through Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, or phones. One set of tools is called Read&Write. Read&Write is now...