On this page the following entries were made in the “March, 2010” time-frame.
Archive for “March, 2010”
Learning to Love the Unknown
If you don’t understand someone, if something’s foreign to you or simply “off your screen”, if you really just don’t get where someone is coming from – rather than walk away with shrugged shoulders, making a judgment of one kind or another which closes doors, try something different. Try to get inside their shoes, to [...]
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First Time Every Time
Children learn by catching your sense of discovery, wonder and enthusiasm about a subject, not by having to manage lots of fragments of information. If you don’t want it to go in one ear and out the other, find the way to reconnect yourself (not your students, you) with the joy of discovering that subject [...]
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Safety
Many, many moons ago, I was living in a indigenous village of close to 200 people (100 dogs, 70 burros, 50 pigs, 30 goats and 1000 chickens) along the Pacific coast of southern central Peru. It was called San Vicente de Azpitia. These were thoughtful, hardworking, gentle, kind-hearted and somber people born of the coastal [...]
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Challenge Assumptions!
Galileo’s ideas challenged the assumptions of his time and culture. The mere suggestion that the earth was not the center of all creation with humans being at the center of the center, was ludicrous, even heretical! The proposition that we lived in a helio-centric system and all that it implied, threatened the stronghold (and vested [...]
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