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Mind Over Matter?
“Education is inherently and inevitably an issue of human goals and human values.” These words are found in the introduction to Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future. He places before us five critical uses or “muscles” of the human mind if we are to live well in...
Teach for Mastery
We have been seeing this phrase, or something like it, more often these days. There are quite a few instructors at NMC that have delved into this idea of Mastery Learning. I have been using this principle with my courses in conjunction with gamification. Using new...
Global Perspectives
Global Perspectives: How the World Works Global Perspectives: How the World Works is the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Study Topic for 2016-2017. The topic is broken into eight themes and this past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Michigan Region Mini Honors...
Shame on Me, Shame on Us
Shame on Me, Shame on Us! Last Tuesday, like many of you, I watched the election results in disbelief. How could we have gotten the polling so wrong and how could the American populous have elected Donald Trump as President? As I thought about facing my colleagues...