Archive for April, 2008
All Career Advice is Not Created Equal
Saturday, April 19th, 2008If you’re like most of us you received a lot of career advice in high school and throughout college.
If you followed the advice to the letter it landed you in jobs you didn’t enjoy, languishing on an unfulfilling career path.
Times have changed. It’s time for a new approach to choosing your career. I [...]
What Are Schools Doing to Our Children?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008After 40 years of teaching and 38 years of parenting, I have a lot of opinions about what goes on in education. I recently watched a video that expressed my view on one of the travesties committed by schools: the killing of creativity.
In this insightful and delightfully entertaining video Sir Ken Robinson points out the [...]
Do You Make These Mistakes in English?
Monday, April 14th, 2008Some mistakes are so common in English that the average person may not even be able to spot them. As matter of fact, these mistakes are so rampant, especially on the Internet, that I frequently have to pause to sort out the correct version in my head.
Here are some of the most popular mistakes. If [...]
College Teachers Technology Illiterates?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yesterday I posted about a teacher who uses Twitter, a social networking tool, for high school homework and field trips. On the other end of the technology spectrum are teachers who not only are not up to speed, but who take pride in being computer illiterates.
A post which was voted the “Most Influential Blog Post” [...]
High School Teacher Encourages Tweeting, No Foolin’
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008It seems that most of us just barely began to understand the concept of blogging when along comes microblogging via Twitter.
Twitter is another social networking tool to help friends, family and others to stay in contact through the exchange of quick and frequent answers via their cellphones. It’s similar to text messaging, but with Twitter you stay in [...]