How Do You Think Predictions Increase Learning?

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

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...
Look What’s New!

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...
Making it beautiful

Making it beautiful

My wife and I had the recent opportunity to be a part of a family event that usually brings people together. One of my nieces got married……a year ago but they decided to postpone the wedding party until this November. They live in Tucson, so we figured why...
The Parking (Learning?) Conundrum

The Parking (Learning?) Conundrum

It happens every year when the snow hits the parking lot. People forget how to park. Those of us that go to work every day generally park our cars in a parking lot 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. We don’t seem to have any trouble getting our car parked between the...