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Advice for Teachers Scorned
Why stay in an abusive country? A teacher recently dismissed, I gather, for encouraging critical thinking in her class in (where else?) my native United States writes: I am stunned by the number of...
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Of Confucius, Holy Clowns, and Holy Murderers: Some Advantages of China’s...
[This space has been quiet because I've been fact-checking and otherwise researching my Unsucky Gilgamesh chapters so far (which I hope to publish as a book when finished) and, since school started...
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Confucius on Teaching
Confucius and his students Not the most politically correct sentiment for our day, but still worth a share for its vision of what a student should — and can — be: Historians of religion consider Kongzi...
View ArticleHomework: To Flip? or to Toss?
Forays into Flipping I’ve been edublog silent for a long time now, but buzz about the Flipped Classroom actually hit me human-to-human instead of via the interwebs. Teachers in my school are...
View ArticleIn Which the Teacher is Sacrificial Poet at His First Poetry Slam
In which this teacher sacrifices himself as “Sacrificial Poet” to warm up and launch the First Annual IASAS Forensics and Debate Poetry Slam. SAS, March 2012. (The “Sacrificial Poet,” I was told, is...
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Back to Blogging Again–Elsewhere, and Elsewhat
But not here. I’m blogging with my History of China students here. Why? Crazy, beautiful backstory: Several eons ago, I wrote a “Must-Reads Before Dying” post that the inimitable Stephen Downes...
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Love at First Read–A Daoist Thanksgiving
The Great Clod burdens me with form, labors me with life, eases me in old age, and rests me in death. So if I think well of my life, for the same reason I must think well of my death. – the Zhuangzi,...
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