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Three movies that inspire me as a teacher (and they don’t take place in school)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream Like a lot of people, I’m a sucker for David and Goliath stories, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a great one. Preston Tucker battles the Big Three automakers in the hopes of producing the “car of the future” with safety features such as disc brakes, seatbelts,…
What questions help you get to the solution to your problem?
Just: What happened. What did you see. What was wrong. “The guys would just come ask for the same information over and over again. And it was taking up time for me. . . . They shouldn’t have to ask me some of these questions. You get asked 20, 30 stupid questions and try to go…
The need for conferences
What I want to say is that in the span of my career little has changed or advanced about the ways of academic conference activity. The very first one I attended in 1992 baffled me– a room full of people watching a speaker at a lectern read slides about the need to change the way…
The Bennett Principle
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The Bennett Principle states that the value you receive from an activity is proportional to the energy invested. Creating content requires more energy, but it’s value is greater than the energy used. When…
Kind vs Wicked learning environments
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In a kind learning environment, participants have access to all of the information required to learn and get better at the activity. Think about sports such as tennis and baseball. You immediately get…
ⓔ Please, please, PLEASE stop recording vertical video
There is a disease that is infecting millions of smartphone users. The disease to some seems pretty benign, but that is what makes it so dangerous. It doesn’t kill its host, the host who is blissfully unaware of the horror they are inflicting on others. This disease is VERTICAL VIDEO! Please, say no to George Lucas….
