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The Teaching-Learning Paradox
In an earlier post, I discussed the Educator’s Catch-22, which demonstrates the absurdity of trying to teach intrinsic motivation in environments (i.e. schools) built on extrinsic motivation. Now, in...
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Should Only Rock Stars Make Online Lectures?
After reading David Byrne’s recent ode to Iowa (in which he recounts the state’s socialist utopian roots and observes that Iowa “may not be cool, but it might be beyond cool. Here among the winding...
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The Teaching-Learning Paradox Revisited (Part 1)
A simple syllogism to begin: 1. All people are ideologues*. 2. Teachers are people. 3. You know what goes here. If you reject the premise, you probably want to stop reading. You are the problem. If you...
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Nine Rules for the Education Apocalypse
1. Don’t fear the Apocalypse. Emily Dickinson knew she was in the presence of poetry when she could feel physically the top of her head coming off. This was not a metaphor. It was a mystical...
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