Collateral Learning

In putting together my notes for the presentation I’m giving on “Ethics in the Digital Age” at the Laptop Institute in Memphis, TN, I ran across a posting from David Warlick.  I had the pleasure of meeting David a couple of years ago when he was a keynote speaker at the Laptop Institute, and I [...]

Growing up my dad taught me what every kid should learn: “A job worth doing is worth doing right.”  I was taught that if you were going to do a job, do it right the first time because the second time around never paid.  When I look around at education I have to wonder if [...]

I had an experience that I think more and more teachers are having recently.  I’ve been out of the classroom for a couple of years, but in my previous life I was a religious studies teacher at an all-boys independent Catholic School.  Over my six year tenure there, I taught many kids who had an [...]

Look all over the internet and you’ll hear talk of VLE’s (virtual learning environment), PLE’s (personal learning environment) and the like but something seems to be missing from all of them. Most learning environments and CMS’s (course management systems) are designed for higher ed with a focus on being used by a faculty that [...]

Two important forces guide how we teach and the overall environmental philosophy of education: the Mission of Education and the Business of Education.  The work that teachers put into teaching is nothing short of mission work.  No teacher could ever enter into education with the goal of becoming wealthy.  Educators give overwhelming time and energy [...]