Here’s a thought-provoking video from super-popular, biz-blogger Seth Godin. It’s five minutes but about halfway through he comments that education will stifle curiosity. And curiosity is what will distinguish one from mediocrity. Is all that true?

The Art Institute of Vancouver has this Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test. Results will let you know the percentages of dominance. The questions are very dependent on accurate self-assessment.
This quiz reminds me of the Gregorc Learning Style. I have no idea if the two theories sync or are compatible. You can take […]

Does anyone have this problem, too? You assign your child/student a list of math problems each requiring calculation. He/she hands you the completed work which is a bare list answers. Invariably, I ask, “Where’s your work?”
“I did it in my head,” he replies.
Aaargh! Many of the answers are wrong! And I have no way of […]

One of the many assessments in the Frontier Learning Profile is the Swassing-Barbe Modality Index. It’s the classic tool to determine cognitive input. It answers the question of how a person takes in information, visually, auditorially or kinesthetically and is an important element of the cognitive input portion of the Profile.
Tim Scott recommends a secondary […]

The New York Times highlighted a typical problem in the education establishment. Here’s some of the pertinent stuff:

A student needed a required course to graduate, did not pass the course and, thus, did not graduate.
She came back for a 5th year took the same course and failed again.
For the spring semester she enrolled in the […]

Part of the challenge of teaching older kids at home is staying digitally literate. At our house we joke about Planet 8-Track (where I was born and raised) and Planet iPod, a culural illustration from Earl Creps’ book Off-Road Disciplines. My kids are from Planet iPod. I try to keep up with what happens on […]

As homeschoolers we are really ‘innovators’ and ‘early adopters.’ I am convinced that the trend in mainstream education must move toward individualized education a la homeschooling. Each child is gifted and the goal of a parent or teacher is to equip a child to make the most of his or her gifts.
This video talk […]

Change the way we teach kids; don’t just throw more money at schools. That’s what David Reaume wrote in today’s Anchorage Daily News. What a breath of fresh air from a columnist I rarely agree with. He discusses the potential impact of a recent court decision, Moore vs. State of Alaska.
A few years back […]