In one of our top level curriculum review meetings yesterday, our Deputy Commandant mentioned in his concluding remarks that there was a real “buzz” in the Army among the senior leaders concerning “Force Generation”, and he attributed it to the initiative I have been describing here which is holding out a lot of promise for […]
Category: Teaching
A Reflection on Personal Learning Environments, blogs and wikis
Dr John Persyn from the Dean of Academic Operations started up a study group to look at what InstructorNet could/should/might/ought be. He made the mistake of asking me to think out loud. If you don’t disagree with anything that follows, or at least wonder what I am smoking, then I have failed I take the InstructorNet working group […]
Reflecting on education and promotions within the military
A fellow student was researching the relationship between education and promotion within the Army, so I wrote him this quick reflection: its very true that military promotions are multi-variable; explicitly we consider the whole person concept. Education IS a factor, but only up to a point Examples: 1. enlisted soldiers get promoted based on […]
design thoughts
this whiteboard drawing supplements my previous posting on Design
4 Reflections on Design
4 Reflections on “Design” that are guiding my inquiry, inspired by thought provoking article and commentary at the School for Advanced Military Studies, which is engaged in deep think on the entire military decision making model: 1. The challenge of codifying artful design. I am trying to integrate these 2 statements from the article; It […]
The face of future warfare or a phenomenon emerging from complexity without attribution?
Here is some underreported insight that supports the theme of “Money as a Weapon System” which should give you a moment of pause. LiveLeak reports this interview of Rep. Paul Kanjorski. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds in the video below, Kanjorski explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a “tremendous draw-down […]
Reflecting on Mentoring and counseling
the faculty i respect the most at our college are the ones who voluntarily take on the challenge of being a faculty advisor and engage the students in one on one educational and career counseling. there is a move afoot in the Army to formalize and systematize the mentoring “program” across the force, and I […]
Designing education for uncertainty
Being comfortable with being uncomfortable is turning out to be an essential element of our curriculum. Our officers are routinely being put into situations where their training is not helpful or where it can even be counterproductive. They’ll have to rely on the principles we have educated them on (rather than training) and their own […]
National Futsal tournament in Kansas City: Day 1 lessons
Well, the 2 Saturday games are over and we walked into a buzzsaw 😀 The first team was a travel team from Dallas that just finished winning a Disney sponsored 3v3 national tournament. 11-0 was the final, but we had long stretches where we played them even. The 2d game was against the best Division […]
Blogs and democratization within hierarchical organizations
an update on “giving voice to important matters” after we briefed him on the power of blogging, our commandant, the senior military officer in charge of the college has embraced the idea and has started asking provocative questions about the future of the college’s curriculum and modes of instruction. Students and faculty are starting to […]