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Of Mystery and Education
I have two sons and wonder with a sense of mystery what it means to educate them well. I grew up believing that education was somehow about taking a bunch of stuff which was external to me and making it a part of me. You know, taking that which is external and making...
Students & Teachers
The podcast " In The Classroom, Common Ground Can Transform GPAs" on Hidden Brain with host Shankar Vedantam, we begin to see the tremendous benefit of connecting with your students - finding common ground. Of course, we already know that connecting with your students...
Four reasons to teach students about digital citizenship: Why do we have to learn this?
Recently a group of pre-service teachers asked me, “Why do we have to learn this?” It was an honest question about digital citizenship and its relationship to our curriculum. At the moment I gave a fairly general response about how much the w…
Never say…”JUST a Community College”
While at the Open Education Conference last week, a woman said, “I just work at a community college”, to which someone shouted “Never say ‘just’ a community college.” I don’t remember what was said after that at the session, because I was fixated on that idea, ‘just’...