Blueberries . . . Soft Semantics

Continuation of my discussion with Dr. David Thornburg: David, I think that you are getting caught up in “soft semantics.” Whether you want to admit it or not, education has a set of products. Dictionary.com defines “product” as: 1. Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural […]

Blueberries . . . But curriculum isn’t our product

Continuation of my discussion with Dr. David Thornburg: David, I must disagree about curriculum being our product. The success of our students’ learning is the product. The students are clients but their parents are as much the clients as the students. It is the parents who move their students to […]

Blueberries . . . But curriculum isn’t our product

Continuation of my discussion with Dr. David Thornburg: David, I must disagree about curriculum being our product. The success of our students’ learning is the product. The students are clients but their parents are as much the clients as the students. It is the parents who move their students to […]

Blueberries . . . But curriculum isn’t our product

Continuation of my discussion with Dr. David Thornburg: David, I must disagree about curriculum being our product. The success of our students’ learning is the product. The students are clients but their parents are as much the clients as the students. It is the parents who move their students to […]

Blueberries . . . But curriculum isn’t our product

Continuation of my discussion with Dr. David Thornburg: David, I must disagree about curriculum being our product. The success of our students’ learning is the product. The students are clients but their parents are as much the clients as the students. It is the parents who move their students to […]

Our kids aren’t blueberries

I recently sent a link to a great story that connects kids with Blueberries. No, these are not computer-Blackberries.It is about a lecture that was given by Jamie Volmer. Jamie was giving a speech to teachers where he was connecting education with a business model.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhttp://teachers.net/gazette/JUN02/vollmer.html I sent this link to […]

Our kids aren’t blueberries

I recently sent a link to a great story that connects kids with Blueberries. No, these are not computer-Blackberries.It is about a lecture that was given by Jamie Volmer. Jamie was giving a speech to teachers where he was connecting education with a business model.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhttp://teachers.net/gazette/JUN02/vollmer.html I sent this link to […]

Our kids aren’t blueberries

I recently sent a link to a great story that connects kids with Blueberries. No, these are not computer-Blackberries.It is about a lecture that was given by Jamie Volmer. Jamie was giving a speech to teachers where he was connecting education with a business model.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhttp://teachers.net/gazette/JUN02/vollmer.html I sent this link to […]

Our kids aren’t blueberries

I recently sent a link to a great story that connects kids with Blueberries. No, these are not computer-Blackberries.It is about a lecture that was given by Jamie Volmer. Jamie was giving a speech to teachers where he was connecting education with a business model.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhttp://teachers.net/gazette/JUN02/vollmer.html I sent this link to […]

Building Community through Blogs

Blogs . . . Blogs . . . Blogs . . . Blogs are a wonderful way to communicate with others about your ideas and develop a community of like-interested folk who want to discuss things. At first, I wrote “Like-minded folk” in the previous sentence, but that could and […]