Collateral Learning

Have we shielded our kids from learning by protecting them from failure? It’s time to quite saving our kids from life’s most important learning opportunities.

The economic Armageddon of the past year or so has led to devaluing of employees.  I’ve heard the same statement from a number of different people: “just be glad you have a job.”  Granted, in many fields this might be true: bad loan writer, Wall Street Broker, or Private Jet Pilot for the Auto Industry; [...]

I’ve been quite open regarding my love for Google, so this edtech tip should not surprise anyone. GoogleEarth is a great tool for education (more than just hunting for your house and seeing if you can count the missing shingles from your roof).  One great idea that I’ve passed on to a few of our [...]

This past Monday I had to give a presentation on Information Literacy in the classroom and decided to take a different route.  It seems as this has become a dominant theme this year for our school, but I have to wonder if we’ve taken the right approach.  With this in mind I set out to [...]