Nov 15, 2016
“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...
Nov 15, 2016
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...
Nov 14, 2016
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...
Nov 14, 2016
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...
Nov 14, 2016
I’m coming to the time in the semester when I focus more on getting students to revise and edit their essays. After we finish our third major project, we will move into portfolio revision in the period after Thanksgiving. For this portfolio work, I ask students to...
