Get some educators or instructors into a room and before long you will get an earful about good teaching practices, pedagogy, learning, and so forth. You’ll hear all the latest info about how best to get kids to pay attention, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tools and Ideas
Preliminary note: I would have written this some time ago, but I’ve been beating my head against a wall trying to get YouTube videos to run in a window on this blog. So far, no go, so I must content … Continue reading
Some time ago I blogged on the use of cards as a means of generating ideas, learning, and thinking. Recently I’ve come to realize that the subject needs revisiting in light of an on-again, off-again quest I’ve had in my … Continue reading
A skill not commonly taught in school, and certainly not taught (or even encouraged) in our deadline-driven workplace is the art of incubating ideas. Not all ideas spring from our brains like the Athena fully grown from the head of … Continue reading
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” -Alvin Toffler I once knew a professor whose intellectual talents were highly respected, particularly by … Continue reading
Some months ago I wrote about a project I am working on to create a new online network for science enthusiasts who want to carry out nature observation projects, share their data with others, and collaborate with other citizen scientists … Continue reading
Scholarly and intellectual types have a reputation for not being grounded in the real world. The stereotype is that such persons are lily-handed types with about as many work-related calluses as a bowl of Jell-O. The reputation is undeserved; there … Continue reading
If you are a guerrilla scholar, that means that you assume responsibility for what you learn and how you learn it. Most self-learners do this by just grabbing whatever they can find on a subject and consuming it, and there … Continue reading
To do science on the most basic, fundamental level is to observe some phenomenon of nature, and record what you see. Keep this up for long enough and the chances are surprisingly good that you will discover something, perhaps even … Continue reading
Just for a moment, let’s ignore the fact that the likelihood of someone who is truly rich reading this blog is roughly the same as Jerry Falwell getting his nipples pierced. In fact, let’s forget that this blog is probably … Continue reading