Like many parents, I always enjoyed taking my sons to their first day of school when they were young. One year in particular stands out. My elder son was just starting the second grade, his second year at this school. As we walked in on the first day of class, it seemed as if a [...]
Tagged autism, compliance, Education, engagement, factory work, learning, Work as ArtOne of our goals as a society is to educate our children, to pass along the knowledge of what has gone before so that the children understand where they’ve come from and how we got to where we are. At the same time, we are dependent on our children to create the new knowledge that [...]
Tagged Education, FIRST, kids, knowledge, learning, MasteryLess than 72 hours from now, students from over 1,800 high school teams will be gathered around the country to find out what they’ll be doing for the next 6 weeks. At 1000 (US Eastern time) on Saturday 9 January, Dean Kamen will kick off the 2010 competition season for the FIRST Robotics Competition by [...]
Tagged Education, FIRST, learning, Mastery, SystemsEngineeringAnother of my posts from the past, on a similar theme as my re-post last night of Knowledge in translation. This time, the translation in question is that between the language of autism and the language of the non-autistic. = = == === ===== WHAT IS YOUR LANGUAGE Everyone has their own path to follow [...]
Tagged acceptance, autism, awareness, Education, learning, Life, parentingI’m working on a new post to address the question “Is modern technology ‘dumbing down’ America’s youth?“, as posed in the most recent edition (22 July 09) of the local news weekly – West News Magazine. (The html version of the article isn’t available as of my writing this, but you can read it here.) [...]
Tagged 2.0, Education, learning, Life, parenting, Social Media, technology, ToolsTony Karrer recently asked for recommendations of books for learning professionals (see #38 of his 100 Conversation Topics.) There are many good books in this category, but for the purposes of this conversation I have 4 recommendations. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael Gelb. Mastery: The [...]
Tagged 100 conversations, Aikido, Books, da Vinci, learningAs someone who loves technology and gadgets, and loves figuring out how to make them useful, I’ve had a long interest in how the technology of the information age could change the way people – especially children – learn. This interest is compounded by the fact that I have two teenage sons, now in high [...]
Tagged children, Education, learning, Seymour Papert, technology
