Throughout our educational careers, we are taught to count words as a measure of completeness for our writing. But why? And what qualities of writing end up taking priority?
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Tags: Classroom, Learning, Composition

A recent class conversation got me pondering the scarcity of critical thinking in our culture.
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Tags: Thinking, Learning, Learning Styles, Classroom, Development

A recent round of Scrabble got me thinking about how things would change without writing.
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Tags: Thinking, Language

As I begin re-reading Ong’s Orality and Literacy, I’m dwelling on the idea of collaboration and ownership in education. Ong says that society has moved from orality into literacy; electracy has been added by others; I think education is stuck in the second phase because it’s afraid of letting go.
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Tags: Learning, Society, Thinking, Teaching

Well, that didn’t take long. Today I bring up religion, politics, and murder in my blog. When society creates bad people who do bad things, how can we use education to prevent history from repeating? Can education fix what it’s arguably not responsible for in the first place?
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Tags: Society, Teaching, Ethics

I’ve noticed some interesting differences in what’s expected of teachers in a classroom versus curriculum designers for online courses.
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Tags: Multiple Intelligences, Personality Types, Learning Styles, Learning

Classroom teachers uttering that phrase are usually being rude and dismissive; why do we accept that from distance education?
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Tags: Teaching, Learning, eBooks, Information Delivery

Here, I explain the title of the blog.
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Tags: Thinking, Learning, Classroom, Teaching