this echoes what I found in my dissertation work: that blog writings, even though fueled by passion, were not acknowledged (still aren’t) as academic writing in journals. Similarly, professional craft-work writing, like lesson plans, is also undervalued, even though lesson plans that are taught by 100 faculty peers, and which go thru the wringer […]
Tag: education
Reflections on Grading classroom participation
I like to use a scoring system from 0-3 (Hattip to Professor Dave Garvin at Harvard) 3- added significantly to the discussion with an insight that shows evidence of synthesis and/or deep insight 2 – contributed in a meaningful professional way that demonstrates appropriate mastery of the subject and evidence of preparation for class […]
Being young in America means you get to pay
Upholding Obamacare means young people now get to learn what its like to pay for everyone else’s healthcare and not just their Social Security now. Maybe this is why we don’t teach them math skills, so that they dont understand what we are doing to them
Waiting for superman: the sad story of American schools
Heartbreaking condition of our schools. The nation will go into debt to fund the military industrial complex, but we cant fund kids to go to quality schools. Sold our soul for oil and stock options Watching the lottery draw to see which 100 of the 500 kids gets to win the success lottery by being […]
The 4 part learning journal
My dissertation research involving planning and managing a network of related Participatory Action Research projects. For most of these I was doing theoretical, methodological and practitioner literature reviews and background readings to supplement the group actions. At the same time I was maintaining an individual learning journal to record my reflections on the research processes […]
Definitions of Terms The following terms were used throughout many projects that were studied in my examination of Participatory Action Research (PAR) at the US Army Command & General Staff College from 2008-2011. I was researching how PAR curriculum projects can change how we design and deliver curriculum within the military profession. A large part […]
willing to do anything for work…really?
I work for money. I have managed to find 2 careers where i love what I do, but if they stopped paying me, I’d stop doing that because I am a father with kids to feed and work for money > work for satisfaction. until Americans are willing to do the jobs that Americans arent […]
Bad form in Britain, when it comes to respecting our own legacy
Obama is willing to use Reagan for his own purposes when appealing to the moderate Right, but when the Brits offer a tribute to Reagan on Independence Day (remarkable maturity by the Brits dont you think?!), our ambassador, who’s chief qualification is his effectiveness as a fund-raiser, can’t be found. His absence was both remarkable […]
Educating professional practice by emphasizing worked examples
this essay discusses the challenge of educating computer science students on writing professional quality production code. It informs our own inquiry into what to teach at CGSC and how to teach it. I think it has a lot to say about what we should be emphasizing for our staff officers. One of our graduating seniors […]
The importance of being “gritty”
am collecting data now in 3 different areas to support my research into the effects of using Participatory Action Research to conduct curriculum design that focuses on the experiences of faculty and students to drive the selection of topics, and the content of lessons that are satisfying to them, as opposed to the traditional method […]