I recently read this article from the Harvard Business Review stating that “Feminine” Values Can Give Tomorrow’s Leaders an Edge. A study was done asking 64,000 people from over 13 countries all over the world for the traits, skills and competencies that were perceived to be appreciated in leaders in the world of business and […]
So the other day I read a tweet by Justin Lanier that really sparked my interest. We all know the scenario in classroom discourse where a student asks a question – a really great question – and you know the answer, but you hedge and you say something like, “That’s a great question! I wonder […]
OK, OK, I get the idea – not everything on the Internet is true and, for sure, not everything on the Internet is meaningful or helpful. Since April of this year I have started following a bunch of people on Twitter (before that I really didn’t even know what it was or care) and thought […]
I just finished listening to a great “blogcast” that Tony Wagner gave as an interview for Blogtalkradio about his new book “Creating Innovators:The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World.” Kind of a neat idea for a book in which he has done some great research looking into how some new ideas got started […]
Before I left for the Anjs S. Greer Math Conference last week, I read an amazing blog entry at the Math Ed Matters website by Dana Ernst and Angie Hodge that was talking about Inquiry-Based Learning and the mantra “Try, Fail, Understand, Win.” The idea came from one of Prof. Ernst’s student course evaluations this […]
What a great time we had this week in my courses! I am so excited by all of the folks that I met and the CwiC sessions of other leaders that I went to. Pretty awesome stuff presented by Maria Hernandez from NCSSM, my great colleague Nils Ahbel, Tom Reardon, Ian Winokur, Dan Teague, Ken […]
This past January, I gave a key-note address at the ISOMA conference in Toronto and posted my slides from that talk on my academia.edu site that I thought would be a good place for me to easily give other people access to my work. (along with my website). Academia.edu is great because it gives you […]
As someone who has used Problem-Based Learning for almost 20 years and sad to say has never been part of a full-fledged Project-Based Learning curriculum, what I know best is what I call PBL (Problem-Based Learning). I know there is a lot of confusion out there is the blogosphere about what is what, and with […]
So after nine, long hard years, I am finally at a point where I am proud to say, “I’m finished!” Woo-hoo and hurrah, tonight I will submit my dissertation electronically and you can call me Dr. Reading over my work has been probably one of the most fulfilling acts of my professional life, as was […]
Any Mad Men fans out there? I just love some of the characters and the struggles they put themselves through. In one episode from season 5, called “Signal 30,” Lane Pryce needs to take some clients out to dinner and Roger Sterling is giving him some advice on how to woo them to sign a […]