Finding that sweet spot between technophile and technophobe. A Pedagogy of Fluency in a Densely Woven World. The Power of Personal Narrative. Writing by Hand to Create a Deeper Engagement in the Classroom. The following article was published in the summer of 2013. Interest has surged on the topic due to new research by Daniel Oppenheimer and his grad student Pam Mueller. In the past month, new articles about the value of handwriting have surfaced in The Atlantic. And The New York Times.

Catching and sharing ideas as I iterate through life. After a long hiatus, I have decided to start blogging again. This is just a quick post as I warm back up. Stay tuned for a future longer post on the topic of education and teaching children critical thinking skills. Are you Over-Architecting your solutions? .

Bernard Moitessier set out to on the first race sailing single handed, non stop around the globe. It is most likely that he would have won the race if he had not, upon reaching the Atlantic, forfeited the race and turned South to head back around again. Do we run our technology? Or does our technology run us? Buy this car to drive to work.

A Political Blog by Arlen Grossman. What is the BPR? Selected Letters to the Editor. We Are All Greeks Now. Posted on Jul 12, 2015. A demonstrator waves a Greek flag during an anti-austerity rally in central Athens on Friday. The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. The system of unfettered capitalism is designed t.

A New Culture of Learning. I recently finished an intriguing book that is less of a book about technology, but more a book about the social shifts in how we learn due to the dramatic changes in technology. A New Culture of Learning. By Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown describes how the mechanistic nature in which we educate our students does not match the way people are learning outside of school and in the workplace.