Filtered Learning
image from https://hadoopi.wordpress.com One of my GT ISP students made a side comment once that I believe is so profound it should shape...
Do you want to hear a story?
"You have to want me to tell you a story"--Malcolm Gladwell Isn't this the sum of education? We are educators-- we are story tellers. We...
New Educational Approach
Saved this article quite some time ago to "read later"--"Toward a New Education: Low Cost, Scalable, Distributed & Above All:...
On Online Education...
After taking several classes online through Coursera, and a couple of Universities, I have two threads of thought. One: I LOVE the...
Problem with Word Problems
The problem with word problems is this--Who cares? Really. If you can't make the connection for the student to why the problem is a real...
Looking for Services...
The adventures I experienced the past few weeks trying to find a good High School fit for my daughter--Band, Academics, GT...
How Do You Service GT?
Possible life changes have me shopping for a High School for my own youngest gifted child. She will be a freshman next year, and I want...
Being GT is like...
Being GT in a regular Ed classroom often feels like sitting in a corvette on the freeway, stuck in gridlock traffic. Been there done...
Too Much Too Soon?
Just read an article that included an attention grabbing heading of "Too Much Too Soon". The article had several statistics that require...
On Attendance...
If you had a choice, would you choose to go to school? With the new school ranking systems and focus on improvement, one of the areas...