by Larry Campbell | Feb 26, 2015 |
Education in an Information Age
I thought I was being purposely outrageous – I didn’t realize I was being a prophet.
To see why, and also explore the problems & questions inherent in trying to educate students in these days of ‘instant information’, visit Education in An Information Age.
by Larry Campbell | Jan 29, 2015 |
Having been both a parent and a teacher, I have always been fascinated by parent/school interactions, especially when parents and schools don’t see eye to eye. How can we help the process?
For more thoughts on this subject, see Parents & Schools.
by Larry Campbell | Jan 1, 2015 |
During the 12 to 16 years or more it takes our students to navigate our educational system – to become what we call ‘educated’ – lots of interesting things happen to them, and they obviously learn a lot. I wonder if all of what they learn is intentional.
For more thoughts here, visit Moving Through the System.
by Larry Campbell | Oct 30, 2014 |
How ironic!! In a school system, the one person with the most influence and knowledge about what happens in the classroom and how/when to best effect genuine learning, is – tragically – often the person who has the least real power over important system-wide decisions!
For more thoughts here, see the blog The Chain of Command Influence.
by Larry Campbell | Oct 3, 2014 |
Since the rapid expansion of our country during our frontier days, we have become, in terms of education, a strong ‘local control’ nation– and we are fiercely proud of it. No one knows better– so the argument goes – what is best for our kids than our local school boards. Like so many other things, this has its pros and cons.
For further thoughts here (and an opposite position from last month? 🙂 ), visit On the Other Hand . .
