Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
The other day, I pulled up to a fast-food joint, trying to grab a quick bite. ((Okay. It was a Sonic. I really, really like breakfast burritos, and I can get one there pretty much any hour of the day. Eggs and bacon is the “fast food” I eat these days.)) I ordered the value […]
Read More “The System Won’t Let Me”Last week, Educating Modern Learners published a piece I wrote about some of my worries about online communities and students. The piece is called What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Connectedness. Here’s an excerpt: I say often that the Internet isn’t good or bad. It’s a mirror of our best and worst selves. […]
Read More Connecting to What, Exactly?I’ve been in several conversations lately where publishers and vendors have taken an awful casual approach to identity and student data management. The front end of their new “digital textbook” looks great. HTML5 and everything. Plays nicely with an iPad, or a Chromebook or any other screen on any other device. As they should. I […]
Read More Dear Educational Publisher/Vendor: We Care About Our Data, Even When You Don’t Seem ToI’m taking a break from writing up the implications portion of my thesis by coming over here to write some more. I’m beginning to get to the place in my research that I have some definite things to say about what I found out. But I’m having some trouble saying them. Not because I know […]
Read More Ruminations on Implications: Notes from the ThesisI continue to ask of everyone I can speak with in Washington and in Congressional and government offices alike: What is the rationale for eliminating funding for the ? It is a simple question, or it seems to be. But I can’t get anyone to answer it beyond broad strokes of “local and state redundancy” […]
Read More US Dept of Education Press Office Won't Talk to (Bud the) TeacherGary Stager: Are there worksheets on the upside of slavery? Equal time assumes all positions have equal merit. They don’t. Learning and institutions are subjective, no matter how loudly we suggest they’re not. Attempting to pretend otherwise is destructive and self-defeating. And yet.
Read More Equal Time & Opting Out