Happy Friday!!! Our goal as teachers is to give all parts of the brain a good workout. I used to kind of look down on brain based research workshops, but I think there are some really good, common sense things which we can draw from brain based research. Music has […]
Category: Instructional Design
Pacing Guides are #@!%
Let them eat cake. It is a phrase associated with telling poor, starving French souls to go eat something even more expensive than bread(which they didn’t have). In other words, the queen was so out of touch, she didn’t even realize they couldn’t afford cake. To quote Britanica, “She was […]
Relevancy in the Age of Information: Montessori Instructional Design vs Data Driven Instructional Design
Our school system’s convocation years ago featured a man who noted that within just a few short years our public schools would be rendered antiquated relics due to technology advancing so quickly that schools could not keep up with it. He was right. In my previous post, I was critical […]
Virtual Field Trips
I love Google Earth. I am on it pretty much every day. You can go anywhere. If I am going on vacation, I use Google Earth to check out the area before renting. Students generally enjoy Google Earth as well, especially if they have been shown how powerful it is. […]
Freshman English and the Gift of a Professor
Literacy wasn’t my best subject as a kid growing up. In fact, I didn’t like it. When I got to the university level, I didn’t know how to write a cohesive essay. As providence would have it, I landed a great professor in freshman English of all places. It was […]
It is time to re-invent, re-think, and re-imagine the entire process of educating students…
To be blunt, we have too many people in the system of American education who are just blowhards. They sound good. Their presentations are well-polished. Fancy new acronyms are employed. Research from some obscure source supports their presentations- maybe even funded by the person talking. Everyone nods their heads in […]
An Introduction
The “why” to this blog….