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REDEFINING SUCCESS: Remove the fear of failure to learn what’s important
School is said to have many purposes, including socialization and acculturation. (In reality, it’s mostly about being a place for kids to go during the adult working day.) For many people, school’s...
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THE FAMILY BUSINESS: Child labour or learning while working?
Many people are fond of the phrase “play is children’s work,” a notion attributable to Friedrich Froebel, the “inventor” of kindergarten. And so it is. In fact, play is a powerful learning tool for...
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PARENTAL PRESSURE: The effects of competition on learning
Some researchers have found that competition can have “positive results” when used as a motivational technique in the classroom—meaning that when students compete with each other to get better test...
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SERVICE LEARNING: Volunteer-based education in the community
Community engagement has become a buzz word for colleges and universities trying to find ways out of the ivory tower and onto the street below. Departments everywhere face enormous pressure from...
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THE VALUE OF CURSIVE WRITING: Why it shouldn’t be eliminated from schools
Even though I work at a pre-through-fifth-grade school, I’m on the preschool side of the fence. So I was dumbstruck today when a coffeehouse pal told me the teaching of cursive...
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: what’s the objective of learning?
In recent years, postsecondary education has come under the watchful gaze of governments and public bodies looking to ensure that the end product of the dozens of years people spend in schools are...
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UNLEARN: How unlearning makes us smarter
In his recent book Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get in the Way, Jason Siff discusses the concept of “unlearning.” He says that unlearning means “seeing into the habits of...
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WHATEVER: How capitalism stops us from learning
The classic dilemma of mainstream liberal educational systems today is “how do you get students to care?” There are libraries of books and journals devoted to creating stimulating learning...
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STAY IN THE STRETCH ZONE: Why we should pay attention when we’re bored
There’s a learning model educators use to allow students to measure their attitudes towards the topics they’re applying themselves to. You might have seen it: it’s basically three concentric circles...
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TECH? NO!: Education without the gimmicks
One of the things most taken for granted nowadays in education is that technology will make for better classroom experiences and better learning. School boards are actively pursuing the adoption of...
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YOU’RE ACTUALLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH: How self-esteem boosting at school actually...
There’s a growing body of research that suggests that the self-esteem movement that’s dominated education systems for the past few decades might, in fact, be holding students back. Parents with...
View ArticleTHE MICRODEGREE DISRUPTOR: MOOCs And Microdegrees Are Leveling The Employment...
For decades, it was commonly understood that in order to get some of the best jobs, you had to have, at minimum, a four-year college […]
View ArticlePARENTAL PRESSURE: The effects of competition on learning
Some researchers have found that competition can have “positive results” when used as a motivational technique in the classroom—meaning that when students compete with each other to get better test...
View ArticleSERVICE LEARNING: Volunteer-based education in the community
Community engagement has become a buzz word for colleges and universities trying to find ways out of the ivory tower and onto the street below. Departments everywhere face enormous pressure from...
View ArticleTHE VALUE OF CURSIVE WRITING: Why it shouldn’t be eliminated from schools
Even though I work at a pre-through-fifth-grade school, I’m on the preschool side of the fence. So I was dumbstruck today when a coffeehouse pal told me the teaching of cursive...
View ArticleLEARNING OBJECTIVES: what’s the objective of learning?
In recent years, postsecondary education has come under the watchful gaze of governments and public bodies looking to ensure that the end product of the dozens of years people spend in schools are...
View ArticleUNLEARN: How unlearning makes us smarter
In his recent book Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get in the Way, Jason Siff discusses the concept of “unlearning.” He says that unlearning means “seeing into the habits of...
View ArticleWHATEVER: How capitalism stops us from learning
The classic dilemma of mainstream liberal educational systems today is “how do you get students to care?” There are libraries of books and journals devoted to creating stimulating learning...
View ArticleSTAY IN THE STRETCH ZONE: Why we should pay attention when we’re bored
There’s a learning model educators use to allow students to measure their attitudes towards the topics they’re applying themselves to. You might have seen it: it’s basically three concentric circles...
View ArticleTECH? NO!: Education without the gimmicks
One of the things most taken for granted nowadays in education is that technology will make for better classroom experiences and better learning. School boards are actively pursuing the adoption of...
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