Progressive Education

My cousin's son has just started his high school career at BHSEC, following a year of testing and interviews and worry about the next phase of his academic career. In learning more about what he'd be experiencing there, I started thinking about schools and progressive pedagogy and "flipping classrooms" and all the things that we're…

Minor Musings

Books, Reading, Etc. More on E-Reading: A Midterm Progress Report  (I don't annotate, but I can see the appeal for many readers... and the loss.  What will we do when marginalia is completely lost? It's a great insight into the reader's mind.) Why social media isn't the magic bullet for self-epublished authors (and this article…

Minor Musings

Found this stump as I was cleaning out some digital files: The on-going discussion about e-books vs. print books finds people considering both formats. Of course, the proprietary nature of most readers is a problem.