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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:...
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...
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...
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?”...
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...
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...
Understanding Non-Sequential Learners
Understanding Non-Sequential Learnings is critical to building Learning platforms to support them. 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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
21st Century Education Trends
A discussion of some of the important 21st Century Trends in education.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Things You Have to Unlearn to Succeed
Throughout history, education has been about teaching the next generation to do what the previous generation wants them to do. 1. Attending Class and Reading is the same as learning Educators map out a path to learn something. But, not everyone starts in the same...
6 "Ps" of Success
6 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. The critical thing to remember; The 6 Ps are in a constant...
5 Reasons Why Schools Can be Different Today and Why it is Important
I have been either a student or a teacher for most of my life. The traditional teaching model is for the teacher to stand in front of the class and work their way though a "curriculum." And in most cases I find it mind-numbingly boring for both the teachers and...