I hear this phase all the time — “I want to have the college experience.” Most recently I’ve heard it from my daughter who is now close to college age. This phrase is strange to me because it really didn’t exist when I was in college. Way back in the mid-eighties when I attended college,…
It is amazing how our minds seem to have a great capacity to remember stories. Stories can be as vivid in our minds at the present time as when they actually happened in our distant past. I was reminded of this fact when I was reflecting on my father’s life. He died in 2004, and…
JD Vance is the newly selected, vice-presidential running mate to Donald Trump. He’s had a very interesting background, and having read his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy, and also seeing it when it was made into a movie, I have become especially intrigued. This is because, by all accounts, JD Vance is a success story. He has…
What is Intuition? The dictionary defines it as the ability to understand something immediately or to make a judgement which seems to be unconsciously generated. It is the “gut feeling” we receive about something we encounter in our environment. Intuition has always fascinated me, because I’ve wondered exactly how judgements could be made based on…
I have been reading many articles about Chat GPT, which is the Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing App that was recently developed. At the end of one of these articles, I clicked on the Comments section, something I enjoy doing when I have the time. There happened to be only two comments, and what was interesting…
Are our fundamental ways of communicating changing? I would argue that they are. I came to this conclusion from a couple of recent events in my life. These events have made me truly wonder and reflect on my past memories of communication methods to come to an understanding how it has all changed. My first…
What is your passion? We hear this phrase all the time. Find your passion, they say, and you’ll never work a day in your life. But how do you find this passion? Do you read books to explain it to you? Or, perhaps you should consult with an “expert” who will surely explain to you…
Collaboration seems to be on the largest buzz word these days, and it is said to be highly desirable in both work and school. Multiple heads focusing on a problem is always better than one, so they say. But is this always the case? I actually think that teamwork and collaboration can be exceedingly difficult….
If you could design your own learning path, what would it be? Sounds easy enough, right? You just pick the best schools, best teachers, best buildings, resources, etc. But is that all there is to it? Today, there is a raging battle over charter schools vs. traditional public schools. On the one hand, charter schools…
A couple of years ago, I attended an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Being the largest organization in Educational Tech, the conference was massive. The exposition hall alone contained 540 vendor booths — I counted them, from their listings in the program guide. I wondered how anyone could make sense of it…