Teaching or Training — You’ve Got to Know Your Objective
My daughter, a high school senior, is presently working through a college-level literature course on-line. One of the assigned books […]
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Charity, Manipulation and Critical Thinking
Kony2012, a video about the Lord’s Resistance Army in Sudan and its guerrilla leader Joseph Kony has been front page
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Managing by Reason Rather Than Rules
When things are busy, it is always so much easier to simply answer a question rather than stop to reason
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What is the Consequence of “Dialing It Down?”
My friend, Jack, is a long-time youth baseball coach. I asked him the other day how he has seen his
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Technology Young People and the Demise of Vocabulary
One of the results of digital communication is turning out to be a more limited vocabulary. Texting and e-mail are
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The Impulsiveness of Teenage Communication
Earlier this month, there was a minor dust up in Fairview, KS when high school senior Emma Sullivan tweeted about
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Protecting Children from Reason
My daughter Katie needed a construction worker’s outfit for a school club activity.She wanted a couple of accoutrements to go
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Snow and the Work Ethic Conundrum
We have reached snow season in our part of the country and my 17-year-old daughter is discovering that it’s cool
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What Happens When the Phone in Your Hand is Smarter Than You?
With the release of the Apple iPhone 4S, users are discovering Siri, a new electronic companion. Siri is voice activated software
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How can we rely on young people to think if they don’t read?
In a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, Peter Funt, of Candid Camera fame, tells of surveying a class