Archive for the ‘maxims’ Category
“On Two Ways of Reading” (Maxim)
Second draft:
On Two Ways of Reading: Slavery reads on its knees. Freedom reads on its feet.1
So a high school teacher’s job: to teach students to find those feet?
I’m just looking for snappy first principles here. Ones within the 15-year-old attention span.
- I know, I know — wannabee Nietszchean aphorist indulgence. But cut me some slack. Time is slow here on this beach. [↩]
What is Schooliness? Maxim 1: Writing Lessons
School writing: Assignments by teachers who don’t want to read them, to students who don’t want to write them; a perpetual and unnecessary misery upon which hinges the student’s future, and the teacher’s present, livelihood.
Maxim: “Give Me a Unit I’ll Learn for a Day…”
Give me a schooly unit, I’ll make an ‘A’ for a day. Teach me how to make a Personal Learning Network, I’ll learn for a lifetime.
–from a comment I left on David Warlick’s riff off my podcast conversation with Chris Craft yesterday. Exciting times.
