Tag: Curiosity

Outside of smalltalk, most conversation is filled with rich indicators of someone’s personality and interests. Unfortunately because of the lack of the terrible ratio of teachers to students in an average school, the caring attentiveness required to extract meaning from these conversations and apply them to the learners is quite difficult. Essentially, the ability that…

Schools are meant to prepare learners for the future but they are quite often robbed of that until they leave high school. With the speculative learning method, the idea is to try and have learners invent the future by employing and, in doing so, immediately contextualizing the variety of things they have learned to shape…

It’s no secret that traditional academic grading is a short-sighted and limited assessment tool for students and teachers alike. The information that can be extracted from a report card is often little more than “this student knows 80% of what we call ‘Math’.” Without going much further into this, as it has been discussed to…

I wrote recently that I’m stepping away from redesigning school for the time being. Defeated, I was biking back home when I started speculating about the future of the middle eastern world, my heritage. With all the hate directed to and from the Sham region, where would our broken internal politics and exaggerated external influence…