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Done in about two minutes of downtime with K-sketch: Yes, I’ll keep my day job.
Human tendencies to think in hierarchies
This is the follow-up to my earlier entry on Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives and our very human tendency to think in hierarchies, even where inappropriate or misleading. (The great chain of being or evolutionary ladder metaphors are other examples.) It’s frustrating to me as a teacher, but as an academic, it’s a fascinating phenomenon. […]
Notes on a college visit (sort of), days 3-4
I’m lagging behind on the college visit notes, because we had to get up early for yesterday’s flight, and I’ve been too tired today to write until now. Friday, we did not tour a college but instead toured the area. I incurred the justifiable irritation of my daughter for not having planned where to go […]
All-American dad… sort of
So here I sit, a few seconds from the end of the Super Bowl, rooting for the Giants to pull off a miracle, with beer in hand… but with no television… and the beer is gluten-free* … and in a mug, not a stein or the bottle. I knew the Giants should have gone for […]
So I’m on a list… welcome to Washington Post readers
By Sherman Dorn on April 7, 2008
Welcome to those who are visiting after seeing Jay Mathews and Ken Bernstein’s Favorite Education Blogs of 2008 column. As you’ll see from the entry made earlier today, it’s a wonderful irony that I’m on a selective list the same day that I criticize such lists. Heh! In any case, Mathews’s blurb is better than […]
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