A list of the various Christian Denoninations.
New Lesson on Christian Denominations
read more
5 Reasons Education Can and Should Change
Education can and should change because we have unprecedented access to vast amounts of Information. Because, in the past, education followed monolithic, strict religious and political infrastructures. Today that is not the case. Because our needs have changed from military, shelter, and food needs to higher-level needs like Java programming and Photoshop.
Because our traditional “pyramid” of knowledge has become a “network” of knowledge. And because, In the old days, most education was conducted in a very homogeneous environment, but now diversity is the rule and not the exception.
Good Habits
#1: The Habit of Conscious Decision-Making Identity statement: I am aware I am in control of my decision-making. I plan ahead for things that matter most, and my conscious priorities dictate my schedule and choices. #2: The Habit of Finding the Best Solution, not just...
How Generational Communication Patterns Inflecence You Life
This lesson helps us understand how generational communication patterns influence our lives and what we can do about it.
New Car Leasing vs. Buying Information
This post offers new car leasing vs. buying information so we can best help us make the best buying decisions.
Skills Children Should Learn Early
A list of the skills children need to learn in the 21st Century. They include Communication skills and critical thinking skills.
Learning Types
Learning the different learning types and applying it to your own person learning will help you be a better learner.
Learning Theories
A list of the various learning theories so that parents, grandparents, schools, and organizations can use the best one at the best time.
Top Money Mistakes to Avoid
This lesson offers the top money mistakes we should teach our kids to avoid. And hopefully, avoid them ourselves.
Christian Views of Smartphones
Our Christian Views of Smartphones are now an important topic because of the importance of maintaining our faith but also staying connected in our hyper-connected digital world. When to allow children a smartphone has become among the most pivotal of parental...
Example of Communication in a Marriage
I found this at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/husband-queen-hotter-sex-life_n_64012619e4b065f42e30d9d6 it is a great example of communication in a marriage. --------- My Husband Treated Me Like A Queen ― And It Made Me Miserable "I know honorable men everywhere are...
Applying the Blockchain Revolution to Higher Education
This lesson: Applying the Blockchain Revolution to Higher Education will help us learn to exploit Blockchain Technology in Higher Education.
Communication is a Team Sport
Communication is a Team Sport I was watching the sports news and they showed a great play where the 3rd baseman made a running barehanded catch, threw it to the first baseman, who in turn made a great catch by stretching out and short hopping the ball in the dirt. ...
Non Hierarchical Emotional Needs
Non Hierarchical Emotional Needs Maslow’s grouping of needs is great. However, from a communication standpoint sometimes needs to be understood from a more equal grouping. An emotional need is “a craving that, when satisfied, leaves you with a feeling of happiness and...
Micro-Credentials! The 21st Century Educational Goal!
Prior to the domestication of the electron, we had to go to "bricks and mortar" buildings and campuses to learn. But, today, you don't have to leave your desk to have virtually unlimited learning options available to you. Unfortunately, our existing industrialized...
Learning is not a Spectator Sport
I came across an old presentation with the title, "Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport." So a brief search provided a lot of great information. This is particularly important as I am building a Learning Management System LMS. Here are some of the things I found out:...
Blaming the Next Generation is Not New
Mike Males is a Sociologist and Author of Framing Youth and Scapegoat Generation. Mike writes, Well, Scapegoat Generation came out in 1996 and Framing Youth in 1999 and those books are basically talking about the same topics though different periods in time. They...
Instructional Design Suggestions
Instructional Design Suggestions Distance learning, online learning, remote learning, and mobile learning are extremely popular today. Today’s online learners, however, are extremely e-savvy. Therefore, when it comes to picking an online course, their expectations on...
Basic Skills
Basic Skills Basic skills are acquired abilities. Unlike breathing or blinking, we are not born with them; they must be learned. Furthermore, skills can be lost through disuse. They require drill or practice in order to perfect them. Does that make you think of flash...
Elementary Lesson Plans
Smart Skills we offer: Enhance Creativity Problem Solving in seconds Storytelling & Writing Applying techniques to do maths faster and easier Learning a Foreign Language Ideating via drawing and sketches, etc New batches start every week # Course...
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - )was an English scholar and philosopher. Hobbes lived in Paris through the English Civil Wars. He wrote about many topics, including politics, geometry, physics, religion, and history. Hobbes was one of many scholars who tried to answer the...
Skills and Traits We Need to Thrive
Skills We Need (See Curriculum for details.) “Be respectful,” “be thankful for what you have” and “honesty is the best policy” are the top three life lessons American parents hope to teach their children, according to a new survey. Rounding out the top five life...
2 Important Skills: How to use tools and how to use our brains to use the tools
The two most important things we always need to learn to be successful are: 1) how to use the tools available to us, and 2) how to use our minds to best use the tools. And the important reality is that while the tools we need to learn to be successful change all the...
Argument Against Homeschooling
This argument describes the threat homeschooling poses to children and society. It lays out some reasons Homeschooling is attractive. Parents can now keep their children at home in the name of homeschooling free from any real scrutiny as to whether or how they are...
Response to Homeschool Critics
Response to Homeschool Critics In a recent University of Arizona Law Review article, Elizabeth Bartholet, a Harvard law professor, claims that the “homeschooling regime poses real dangers to children and to society.” Bartholet’s legal argument is that homeschooling is...
The Physics of Heat
Argument for Homeschooling
When I told my 13-year-old homeschooled daughter that I would be participating in an upcoming debate with the Harvard professor who recommends a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling, she asked incredulously, “Why would anyone want to prevent people from homeschooling?”...
Internet Alphabet for Beginners
[pdf-embedder url="https://dadad.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Internet-Alphabet-for-Beginners.pdf" title="Internet Alphabet for Beginners"] https://dadad.com/arguments/arguments-for-homeschooling/argument-for-homeschooling/
Is College worth it
The college income premium is the extra income earned by a family whose head has a college degree over the income earned by an otherwise similar family whose head does not have a college degree. This premium remains positive but has declined for recent graduates. The...
Communication Skills Self Assessment
Communication Skills Self-Assessment Listening Skills You are more likely to enjoy more meaningful relationships and are less likely to misunderstand what others are communicating – you don’t just hear what is being said, but bring together the verbal and non-verbal...
Build a Homeschool Network
Build a Homeschool Network You are an overwhelmed homeschooling parent. Maybe you have just moved to a new place. Your kids are lonely for friends. You are lonely for friends, people who won’t look at you funny when you tell them you homeschool your kids. Where do you...
Competencies for 21st Century Workers
5 Competencies for 21st Century Workers The 5 Competencies for 21st Century Workers: Communication - You need to be able to connect with others from different cultures Reading, writing, Talking, Listening, Media Literacy Technology - You need to be able to use...
Understanding Non-Sequential Learners
There are two types of learning: 1) Sequential (one step after another along a described path), and 2) Non-sequential (steps forward and backward as needed). Understanding how people learn is critical to helping our communities thrive. Updated Sept. 2023.
Non-Verbal Communication in A Job Interview
Non-Verbal Communication in A Job Interview Nonverbal communication refers to gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact (or lack thereof), body language, posture, and other ways people can communicate without using language. When you’re interviewing for...
7 Reasons Hugging is a Healthy Choice
This short post lists 7 Reasons hugging is a healthy communication choice and something you might consider doing as often possible.
Family Rules
What should be Our Family Rules This lesson we try to identify what should be the family Rules for the 21st Century. Technology – Technologies are tools we use to solve problems. No TV or Computers in Kids room until they excel in School. And you probably cannot...
Teaching Self Regulation
Teaching Self Regulation This lesson is on Teaching Self Regulation to our kids. (A key to teaching your kids self regulation is for you to learn self regulation. This goes to the lesson on changing others require you to model the behavior you want.) ...
Skills Parents Should Teach
Skills Parents Should Teach? These are a list of skills parents should teach the next generation. I would like to go into detail on each one of these and expand the list if needed. Integrity Respect for Self and Others Curiosity and Creativity Service and Generosity...
What to Teach Children about Avatars
How to Teach Children About Avatars It is important to teach children about Avatars. An avatar is a personalized graphical illustration that represents a computer user, or a character or alter ego that represents that user. An avatar can be represented either in...
Computer Terms for Kids
Computer Terms for Kids This is a list of computer terms for kids. It highlights some important concepts. Backup – This is an extra copy of a file or document. Browser – This is the program you use to browse files. A web browser will browse internet files, like...
Verbal Communication Skills
Verbal Communication Skills Almost every job requires workers to use verbal communication skills. That’s why verbal skills are highly ranked on the candidate evaluation checklists used by many job interviewers. The stronger your communication skills, the better your...
Non Verbal Communication Skills
Non-Verbal Communication Skills Parents need to master non-verbal communication skills. Kids can be very non-verbal so understanding how non-verbal works will greatly increase a parents ability to communicate. The Importance of Nonverbal Communications Most...
Ways to Improve Parental Communication
Improving Parental Communication We can always learn how to improve our Parental Communication Be Consistent Follow through. Know your intent. Be age appropriate Understand how your child sees the world. Be nice. Understand when to use a carrot and when to use a...
Active Listening
Active listening is when the listener tries to understand the speaker’s intention. Active listening is clearly the opposite of “passive” listening. In passive listening, the listener’s brain does nothing to ensure it understands the intent of the speaker. Active listening is when the listener provides feedback to the speaker so the speaker can create new messages that help the listener better understand the speaker. Updated Sept. 2023
5 Classroom Learning Myths
5 Classroom Learning Myths These are some of the Classroom Learning Myths we need to embrace in order to maximize learning. Throughout history, education has been about teaching the next generation to do what the previous generation wants them to do. However, just...
Listening & Seeing is not Hearing and Understanding
“Listening” and “Seeing” are not the same as “Hearing” and “Understanding.” Being connected to others is a fundamental driver for most of us. And it is the quality of those connections that determine the quality of our lives. So learning skills to help us grow the...
How Parents Should Teach Media Literacy
How Parents Should Teach Media Literacy http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol8/iss2/1/ Many parents fail to interact with their children regularly about media content. What is the relationship between parents’ critical thinking about media and parents’...
12 Simple Rules to Live By
At 68 I can now look at my life and say that I did pretty well. Looking back on how I got to where I am, I can narrow my success down these 12 simple rules to live by. Things you should do as much as you can. Honesty with yourself and others Respect others Don’t let...
7 Pillars of Success
7 Pillars of Success Success is achieved by various combinations of: Propensity - Talent. Persistence - Not Giving Up. Providence - Luck. Passion - Desire. Perspiration - Hard Work. Perspective - Honesty. Predictability - Trust Excerpt From: Ira Gorelick. “The...
Personalized Learning Plans
In 2015–16, the high school graduation rate reached a record high of 84 percent (U.S. Department of Education 2017). Despite the gains, over half a million students still drop out of high school each year (U.S. Department of Education 2015). High schools have adopted...
Use Comic Books to Teach Critical Thinking
An introduction to Critical Thinking Comic Books, a great way to teach important skills to the next generation.
21st Century Education Trends
A discussion of some of the important 21st Century Trends in education.
12 Civics Facts High School Kids May Need To Know
This lesson discusses 12 civics facts that high schools should know in order to thrive in today’s complex communities. Updated Sept 2023.
Hiring Trends to Exploit in 2018
5 of the key Hiring Trends are presented: Digitization of the Interview, The Computerization of the Resume Selection Process, More Diversity in Teams, More Competition, Move beyond traditional skills and more focused on highly desirable advanced skills. Actionable suggestions to exploit these trends are also presented.
Lighthouse Parenting – A Better Way to Parent
I heard a new term: "Lighthouse Parent." I think that being a Lighthouse Parent is a better way to Parent The term is intended to offer a better alternative to parenting than: helicopter parents, absent parents, or dictatorial parents. While helicopter parents are...
200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list. — Quartz
If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created...
How to “Confront” Your Kids Teacher
How to "Confront" your Kids Teacher Most people I know do not enjoy confronting anyone, least alone your kid's teacher. I’m your Type A people-pleaser. But that changes when you have kids. The stakes are suddenly so high and you can’t help but confront people. It’s...
Smartphones have made parenting harder than ever : TreeHugger
google_ad_section_start Giving a kid a phone "feels a little like trying to teach your kid how to use cocaine, but in a balanced way." If I was ever tempted to give my children iPhones before they leave home, an article in the Wall Street Journal has quashed that urge...
7 Parenting Things You Don’t Realize You’re Doing Because You Had A Toxic Mother
When women become mothers, they don't stop being someone's child. The past lives within everyone, and the effects of an abusive, toxic, or otherwise damaging mother can echo down through generations. New mothers hoping to parent differently have a tough, strange, and...
Women Are ‘Coffee Steaming’ Their Vaginas to Induce Labor & We Have So Many Questions | CafeMom
When a woman is nine months pregnant and ready to pop, she'll try almost anything to get the labor party started -- spicy food, sex, exercise. It doesn't matter if it's a tried-and-true method from her midwife or something totally bonkers she read on a message board...
The Benefits of Parenting in the Age of Trump
The Benefits of Parenting in the Age of Trump This is an important lesson and I'll be working on it now. Recently I heard about "bystander behavior." It was noted that though many people think of themselves as helpful in a moment of crisis, when the time comes, few...
Parenting is a Leadership Exercise
I was on a flight from Orlando and the pilot made an announcement before we left the gate; “It’s probably going to be bumpy as we climb out.” Having flown a lot from Orlando in the summer, this was not an unusual announcement. After all, afternoon thunderstorms are...
Best Parenting Websites & Blogs Every Mom And Dad Should Read
Of course our goal is to be on this list. But, because we are new and have not built any "Authority" yet, it is understandable why we are not on this list. However, we can study this list and figure out why they are on the list and what we need to do to get on this...
Learning is not a spectator sport
'Learning is not a spectator sport' Many of you will be familiar with the words of Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C Ehrmann (1996) but you may not have had the chance to read anything further. Here is what they said to expand on that statement: 'Learning is not a...
Social Status of Listener Alters Our Voice
Summary: According to researchers, people tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to and how dominant they feel. The study found that a person’s vocal characteristics altered in response to people of different social status. When a...
Beers/Probst: Fake News & Responsible Reading
By Kylene Beers & Robert Probst How do we teach kids across the grades to read responsibly? Close attention to an author’s words – the responsibility a reader shows to the text – implies and requires a responsibility to oneself as well as the words on the page....
Gallup’s World Poll Points to a Very Broken Workplace
Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup, posted a summary of Gallup's World Poll, and it was not good news for the future of our workforce. He suggested: While the world's workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in...
A resume gets only a minute of a recruiter's time, says TimesJobs study
Among the host of soft skills that recruiters desire to see in a resume, the top three are communication skills, leadership skills and teamwork. Here are the multiple choices of their preferences - Click here to view original web page at economictimes.indiatimes.com
What Happens When We Don’t Raise Kids to Become Adults
People have been complaining about the next generation forever. This perspective is a thinly vailed promotion of a "WASP" (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) world view. In his quote below Sasse suggests we begin a "Augustinian Awareness." But growing up involves coming to...
Another Way to Get A College Degree
I came across the video below by J. P. Sears, a humorist. Here is his passive aggressive discussion on the wisdom of taking on $100,000 of debt for a college degree. His video makes a lot of great points. Most importantly going to collage right out of high school is...
5 Values to Teach Our Kids
5 Values To Teach Our Kids And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. And you shall teach them to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. -...
The Need to Teach Basic "Life Skills" Is More Important Than Ever Before
The need to teach basic life skills is more Important in a 21st Century world than ever before. This is because the 21st Century is more diverse, more global, more inter-connected, and more competitive than at any other time in history. Additionally, employers have...
Skills Parents Need
I was cleaning out my email inbox (something I needed to do for a long time) and I came across a report that listed the Top 12 Skills for 2012. It got me thinking what are the top skills one needs to succeed. Using the report as a starting point here is my list....
Christian View of the Economics We Need to Teach Our Kids
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. And you shall teach them to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. Deuteronomy 6:7 Train up a child in...
5 Networking Skills Your Teen Needs to Master
5 Networking Skills Your Teen Needs to Master Humans are wired to connect with other humans more so than any other species I know. We're a species who, not only likes to connect but needs to connect. We're social creatures, always have been and always will be....
Grade Inflation is Still Happening Because Grades Are Given by the Teachers
A Study on Grade Inflation found that grades continue to rise and that A is the most common grade earned at all kinds of colleges. The findings are based on an analysis of colleges that collectively enroll about one million students, with a wide range of...
7 Communication Skills to Master
7 Communication Skills to Master Communication is a requirement for almost any job and almost any life activity. Here are the top 7 communication skills that will help you succeed in work and life. 1. Understand The Intent of the Communication We all begin...
10 Important Communication Skills
10 Important Communication Skills Communication is a requirement for almost any job and almost any life activity. Here are the top 10 communication skills that will help you succeed in work and life. 1. Understand The Intent of the Communication We all begin...
Poorer students benefit less from a bachelor’s degree than the wealthy – MarketWatch
According to a recent Brookings Institution analysis, a decades long survey of 18,000 people and their descendants - A bachelor's degree benefited students from poor families much less than students from wealthier backgrounds. While, on average, most would agree that...
7 Things to Help Your Kids be Better Communicators
This list of the 7 things to help your kids be better communicators is intended to help your kids succeed, by helping them be better understood by helping them focus more on their communication. A fundamental intent of most of us is being better understood. But, in...
The 2 Most Important Things we Always Need to Learn to Be Successful
The two most important things we always need to learn to be successful are: 1) how to use the tools available to us, and 2) how to use our minds to best use the tools. And the important reality is that while the tools we need to learn to be successful change all the...
5 Ways Technology Can and Should Be used to Improve Education
Technology has always been a powerful tool in learning. The earliest learning technology, writing, transformed learning from just the memorization of stories told by a few near by elders, to the study of many different ideas from many different people and from many...
In Person, Face-to-Face Communication is Always better because it has the most Bandwidth
There are a lot of ways to communicate - Books, Movies, email, phone calls, social media, text messaging, video calls - just to name a few. However, the best way to communicate, has always been, is now, and will always be, in person face-to-face. And there is one...
Benefit of Face-to-Face Communication: Bandwidth
The Benefit of Face-to-Face Communication: Bandwidth There are a lot of ways to communicate: Books, Movies, email, phone calls, social media, text messaging, video calls - just to name a few. However, the best way to communicate, has always been, is now, and will...
10 Communication Mistakes to Try to Avoid
As we go through life we are constantly communicating. Unfortunately, we sometimes make communication mistakes. Those mistakes are often based on reflexive habits which can destroy our relationships. If we reframe these reflexive communication habits we can improve...
Why Getting a College Degree is So Important? Because Robots can Replace High School Grads!
Georgetown University just published a Research Report that suggests getting a College Degree is the best way to get a good job. (Link to the Report Here) After analyzing this report I've come to the conclusion that the reason getting a college degree is so critical...
5 Things to think about when things are not going the way you want
No matter how smart we are and no matter how well we plan, things will go wrong. Sometimes it is our fault because we forgot something we should have known. Sometimes someone else is the cause of our tough times. And sometimes it is simply an accident. But, no...
10 Key Curriculum for the 21st Century
What and how we learn is different today than anytime in history. We have not changed. The tools we need to learn and the things we need to learn, however, have changed. Most of what used to be learned in traditional K - 12 classes can be found easily with simple...
7 Education Websites that Demonstrate the Power of 21st Century Learning Communities
The instant we domesticated the electron we gave to educators the power to transform 18th Century paper based teacher centered education into 21st Century learning tools. EdTech is what we call this electronic Education Technology. And the world over smart people...
Finding the "RIGHT ANSWER" is much more important than being "Right!"
All Paradigms can change. People thought the world was flat and that changed. People thought the Earth was the center of the universe, and that changed. But not everyone agrees that all paradigms can change. Religious fundamentalists do not agree that all paradigms...
Finding the “RIGHT ANSWER” is much more important than being “Right!”
All Paradigms can change. People thought the world was flat and that changed. People thought the Earth was the center of the universe, and that changed. But not everyone agrees that all paradigms can change. Religious fundamentalists do not agree that all paradigms...
7 Principles of Success from SAP CEO Bill McDermott
In his new book Winners Dream: A Journey From Corner Store to Corner Office, SAP CEO Bill McDermott offers his suggestions for 7 Principles of success. (The full post is below). I have my own 7 principles for success. Let me see how well they align. My view is...
5 Things to Worry About When Using 21st Century Communication Tools
21st Century Communications tools are absolutely great. My Stock Broker had a question about year-end taxes. With just a few short emails, and the appropriate cc's, the question was answered. If I had to use a phone, I would have had to call my CPA, hoped he would...
Teacher Evaluations Fail to Achieve Better Teaching
A key measure on my teaching effectiveness has always been the teacher evaluations. The problem is, I never liked them. Teacher evaluations fail to achieve better teaching. They cloud the evaluation process and make a good rating more important than helping...
Gallup Study found reasons for our failing Education Systems. I Completely Agree with their findings!
A recent Gallup Study gathered some data that pointed to the reasons for our failing Education. Gallup found that those educational institutions that make intentional efforts to embrace the fundamentals of human development will thrive, others will fail badly. While...
Teaching your kids about money is as important as teaching them about looking both ways when they cross the street!
I am not sure how I learned the simple rule of "Spending less than you earn." But I learned it. I suspect it was a lesson taught by example. But, I don't know. I know many people that as adults have completely different spending habits than their parents....
10 Ways you know you have Confidence
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. Confidence...
Is Spanking Effective? What Science Says About Using Physical Force To Punish A Child
Is Spanking Effective? I am not a fan of hitting a kid. There are a lot of ways to discipline a child. Parents are big, children are small. Parents should have no problem excerpting their power without responding to physical violence. However, I know that many...
5 Do's and 5 Don'ts for Parents about helping your kids Apply to College
I saw the post below and I thought I would add to it. I have my own Do's and Don't about helping your kids apply to college. Do's Start early - From the day they are born you need to think about college. You need to start early from a financial perspective and from...
5 Listening Skills of Really Amazing Listeners
Most people like to think what they have to say is important. If you or I make the effort to share thoughts, feelings, or knowledge, then we want to believe the intended recipient is listening. But honestly, many people are too distracted to really take it all in when...