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The falling enrollment of education majors
Teacher Pipeline Still Drying Up But for the education world, the most striking data comes from the survey question asking in what field the freshmen plan to major. The percentage of probable education majors stands at 4.2%, the lowest percentage ever since the question was first asked in 1971. And that 4.1% comes at the…
It’s the thing that gets you to the thing.
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. There is a 40 episode show from AMC called Halt and Catch Fire. It’s a fictionalized few of the early computer revolution in the 80s up to the search engine wars and the…
Doing great work
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. This past week was the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. While some may love him, others may hate him, but no matter what, he left his mark on the world. I…
Sharing: Coding and math
Coding Can Help With “Math War” In the article Jonathan pushes to make kids doers of math instead of just doing math. The difference focuses more on creating an open ended math environment (Seymour Papert called this Mathland) and less on drill and skill, which unfortunately, is the model our math textbooks follow. I firmly believe…
To get better, do the things you’re bad at
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. We can always coast, do the things we’ve done a million times before, but does that offer any growth? We shouldn’t look at the term self-improvement as a negative. To some it implies…