Musings on Education, Technology, Pop Culture, Religion & Staying Curious
Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that version one suffered from with a thinner, lighter device and boosted internal memory from 512 MB to 2 GB. [...]
Sometimes the reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility, are much more… “ground level.” One student commented: I loved Benjamin Zander’s analogy of the conductor and orchestra. Too often educators forget that we are not there to fill there little brains with information all day long. This is where the NCLB act has [...]
My students continue their reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility. This time the musing is about the possible ramifications of the realization that “Reality” is not what we thought it was: I try not to allow Zander’s conceptualism bother me–it goads me like a poker when he says “language is replete with [...]
Students in my course are assigned to read Ben & Roz Zander’s The Art of Possibility and over this past week I’ve been reading and grading their reflections on the book in their blogs. The book, which espouses the notion that we will find more success in life if we recognize that we live in [...]
I love these people. Before heading out to our various Thanksgiving holiday destinations Beth (month 1) pulled out a composition book with the title “Things I Never Thought I Would Hear at Work.” Once we were seated around her like attentive pre-schoolers, she read to us a collection of quotations and our job was to [...]
Miracle at St. Anna. Don’t know about the novel it was based on, but I’m a sucker for historical fiction. One coworker didn’t like the novel, saying something about the Italian government denying the film version of the story. Okay. Given the number of times God’s name is envoked, it seemed pretty clear that Spike [...]
Found out Wednesday afternoon that our group was being relocated to different offices and that we needed to have our stuff moved by Friday. Before the end of day, Wednesday, I had everything packed and ready to go. Thank God, I’d never gotten too crazy with the books or desk/cube toys. Also, good thing I [...]
Beginning week four of my summer break and about two weeks ago (after catching up on overdue paperwork and furniture-moving) I opened a novel that I’d been meaning to read for at least the past two years, “Dune: House Harkonnen.” Thus, pretty much any free time (when I’m not driving, sleeping or working on the [...]
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