Common Core Fears: Short Atlantic Reflections
From the article Suburbia and Its Common Core Conspiracy Theories: Many parents view the Common Core and the accompanying tests as a threat to their ability to keep their…
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Homework: A Father’s Thoughts
“Your child will have 40 minutes of homework each night. Plus 20 to 30 minutes of reading.” Random Unexplained Teacher Rule Grade Level X 10 = Daily minutes…
Hold on, laptops may NOT be bad for learning
Around a month ago, a corner of my Twitterverse erupted with a study that indicated that laptops in the classroom discourage learning. Titled “The Pen is Mightier than the…
Teacher Feedback VS Machine Feedback
Do students prefer to learn from a machine? A bit of a professional disclaimer to this week’s geek study. I do not believe that technology is ever an effective…
Comparing Teachers to Doctors
Not that we’re trying to do the apples to apples thing here. But I do wish society would give a bit more credit to the cognitive and physical…
Online Education and Seeing Her Flaws
When I first fell in love with online education my vision, which, I suppose, is normal at the start of any relationship, became exceptionally myopic. I’d develop some…
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