Category: Buccaneering
Why current education models don’t work: it’s in our genes
| 12 November 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Education |
Peter Gray at Psychology Today has posted a thoughtful blog article entitled Why Children Protest Going to School: More Evolutionary Mismatch. I find it an insightful argument in favor of homeschooling and several other education methods that do not lead to a factory model of schooling.
Fostering creativity
| 27 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Miscellany, Thoughts |
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A little earlier I posted an article about the creativity crisis covered by Newsweek. They also posted a good practical article on fostering creativity called Forget Brainstorming. Here’s a summary of their points: Don’t tell someone to “be creative.” Get moving. Engage in aerobic activity regularly. Take a break. This isn’t about stopping so much…
Drop in creativity documented
| 26 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Employment, Miscellany, Thoughts |
Read between the lines of Newsweek’s report The Creativity Crisis, and you are likely to pick up the idea that America’s declining educational effectiveness stems, at least in part, from misguided federally-imposed standards. The average person thinks “art” in its various forms when you say “creativity,” but as this article points out, creativity is much,…
You must be willing to create crap…
| 19 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Communication, Education, Journalism |
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…in order to find the good stuff. That’s sort of what Anne Lamott advised in her book Bird by Bird. One of her chapters was titled pretty much that (using a stronger term than crap). Daniel Pink posits a similar idea in his piece entitled Why you should come up with at least 1 bad…
Taking part in evolving model of education
| 18 January 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Education, Technology and learning |
I’m taking part in a course that illustrates in a lot of ways the changing face of education. Just as I don’t know exactly how that face will change, I don’t know yet exactly how the course works, but I get the feeling that the not know will likely be an integral part of both…
Finding your passion
| 10 September 2010 | Posted by Donn King under Bliss, Buccaneering, Education, Thoughts |
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There’s a lot of discussion around passion and finding it for college students. No, not that kind of passion–get your mind out of the gutter. Passion as in caring deeply about. Cal Newport’s guest post on the Zen Habits blog goes into many aspects of this. Here’s a quote from The Minimalist’s Guide to Cultivating…
The changing “delivery” of education
| 10 May 2010 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Education, Technology and learning |
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We have many conversations going on in the Pellissippi State community concerning what constitutes acceptable or effective or “real” college education. I came across an interesting article that adds fuel to the discussions, potentially boosting velocity in several directions. When you first start to read “How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education,” you might…
Education essence: knowing we don’t know
| 21 February 2010 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Education |
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It’s an ongoing frustration of mine that I don’t have (or, perhaps, take) the time to write on this and other blogs. I can’t believe I haven’t posted since December. But the evidence is right there. I still don’t have time to go into depth, but I wanted to share a post called What We…
New category, extending old principle
| 7 December 2009 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Education |
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This is the first post in a new category for this blog, called simply “Buccaneering.” The idea comes from an approach to education explicated by James Bach in his book Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success. Some people love the book, some hate…
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