I ran across Karl Fisch from the Fischbowl in a random search for education blogs. I recommend the blog for anyone interested in education and new ideas. For this series, I thought I would respond to some of Karl’s ideas. Some of the original blog posts are old, but great ideas and still relevant. From [...]
This post is also published on my personal blog (Wading Through the Ocean of Life) in a slightly shortened version. The subject is perfect for cross listing and adaptation, so I thought I would modify it for this blog also. Enjoy! “We’re [Facebook] moving away from the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to the ‘wisdom of friends’” [...]
What’s the best way to get information to the needed parties: parents, students, teachers, etc? Definitely not through meetings… that’s what I learned through 3 years of pointless communication. We (humans) are horrible about paying attention when other people are talking. Either we get distracted, like squirrels and shiny objects or are thinking about [...]
The other day my high schoolers started to jokingly refer to me as their mom… which brought up an interesting dilemma. What is my role as the teacher? Am I part mom, part educator? Or, do I just focus on the academic education of my students? In a way, this dilemma is less of a [...]
A major problem in education is poor communication between the various interested parties. What role are parents expected to play? How should financial supporters influence the process? What responsibilities are left to students? Which objectives do teachers give priority? What are the responsibilities of school administrators? Now here’s the thing… if we ran our companies [...]