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The World (of English) According to Me – Pt. 1

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

[I realize this post is long. If you'd rather read this post as black text on white background, you can use the "Print This" link to view the post in that format without actually having to print.] In an earlier post, Humanities and the DY/DAN Method, I linked to Dan Meyer‘s blog and his take [...]

Uma Thurman on Learning

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Uma Thurman, in an interview for NPR’s “Fresh Air,”1 on learning martial arts for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and 2: It’s difficult to learn. We forget when we get into our adult lives … we avoid as much stress as we can. We learn how to avoid places where we struggle. And when you have [...]

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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]