Tag: learning
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The Thing that I Love About My Blog
…..is what I learn about you who read it. Whenever I check the sites stats, it shows the search terms that people used to find my blog, and it also shows the sites that they might have come from. Here are some of my observations. 1. People are struggling with…
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Sometimes Teachers Don’t Teach Anything New
…..they just take all the things that you already know and put it together for their students in a new way. Just because you’re not learning anything new doesn’t mean that your teacher is not teaching. Teachers are teaching because they’ve been able to put things together in ways that…
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What I Think – Do you enjoy learning that what you think is wrong? I do.
One of the greatest joys of reading is realizing that what i think is sometimes wrong. Okay, maybe not wrong, but definitely misinformed. It’s great when you get the information. The older I get and the more I learn, the easier it is to admit that I’m wrong. Can that…
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The Nephew Lesson
The nephew lesson is not a new lesson. I’ve learned this many ways, but it still comes up because I haven’t quite “learned” it yet. What my nephew teaches me is the following: 1. that everything should take longer than I give it time for. I rush things. He doesn’t.…
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High Fat Diets Lead to Slower Cognition
I read that in an article. I think they were serious when they wrote it. Here’s the deal – what do you think about it? Do you have a high fat diet? The article said that trans fat affects the hippocampus – the area of the brain where learning and…
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Teaching Kids to Fail
I heard someone say that teachers now are teaching students that already know everything. It’s not possible to teach someone that already knows everything. They can Bing or Google the information much more quickly than a teacher can explain it in the class. The role now these days is not…
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An Ed Psych Lesson
I Googled a definition of Educational Psychology. The first hit defined it as: Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organization. Here is where I got it. I was…
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Failure as an Option
When you spend over a decade in school and some of us a few more years in college, we are taught one thing – that failure is not an option. In fact, we’re taught that you are a failure if you fail. Some of US learn that an A is…
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Easy Is Relative
It is easy for the talented to get stuff done – because they’re talented. Is it possible to become talented though? You might have noticed that I didn’t ask – is it easy to become talented? If everything was easy – more people would do it. If leading was easy…
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Teaching Students vs. Teaching Subjects
This is not a new idea, but there is a difference between teaching students or teaching a subject. Teaching a subject is easier than teaching students. Knowing your subject matter and having command of the information – does not a teacher make. Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton…
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Blog Stats
Have you checked yours lately? You can learn so much about…. 1. What you write about – there are a few ways to do this, but a quick look at your tags might reveal something about what you write. 2. How people find your blog – I check the Search…
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The Curious Life
So I was watching Dinner Impossible – and a commercial came on – a commercial for Kahlua of all things. What caught my attention was the motto. They had mentioned to be safe in your Curious Life. Now, this is in no way a commercial for Kahlua, but I love…