Comments for MJ's blog http://mjdelia.com Librarianship. Education. Experimentation. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Great (Education) Reset by rohitdubey http://mjdelia.com/2010/08/02/the-great-education-reset/#comment-112 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:33:34 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=333#comment-112 it is must for education life

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]]> Comment on HMW: How might we… by Vinay Dabholkar http://mjdelia.com/2010/01/18/hmw-how-might-we/#comment-111 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:49:17 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-111 Thanks, MJ for the informative post. I liked how your three example questions and how they can be improved with HMW. I plan to read Tim Brown’s book.

Vinay

]]> Comment on The Great (Education) Reset by Doug http://mjdelia.com/2010/08/02/the-great-education-reset/#comment-106 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:15:49 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=333#comment-106 Others agree … the higher education bubble …

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/

]]> Comment on Acting into thinking by Frances Miller http://mjdelia.com/2010/07/28/acting-into-thinking/#comment-74 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:17:52 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=322#comment-74 As I read your comment, I began thinking about a strategy we used with children in the elementary school where I was a principal. Chick Moorman, an outstanding author in education who focuses on empowering children to make good behavioral choices always tells teachers that when a child is “stuck” in their thinking, one strategy to use is to say, “Pretend you know the answer.”

When I taught this strategy to my teachers, they thought I was crazy! I think they thought I was telling them to ask the children to “fake it”. I was not! In reality, when you ask a child to “Pretend you know the answer” they actually “act” their way into solving the problem. What a great way to empower students into becoming good problem solvers.

As the teachers were reflecting on Chick’s strategy, one teacher, who happened to be one of my more experienced teachers, who rarely took risks, piped up. She explained that she told one of her more difficult students to “Pretend he knew the answer” to solving a social conflict he was having. She said it actually worked.. She also said that soon after that, she heard other students using this phrase with one another. Amazing!

So, when you are feeling stuck, “Pretend like you know the answer!”

]]> Comment on Analytical Skills and Social Intelligence by tsactuo http://mjdelia.com/2010/08/01/analytical-skills-and-social-intelligence/#comment-71 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:19:14 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-71 You’re exactly right. America’s education system, focused on it is on standardization and conformity and zero tolerance for deviation, really is short-changing everyone. To my eyes, it’s gotten this way pretty quickly, over the past twenty years or so. When I was a student in public schools in the 70s and 80s, I was recognized as one of the odd-kids-out. While they did try to keep my some corralled in with the rest of the kids, they didn’t actively discourage or punish my creativity and, er, social flair.

They did that in college.

]]> Comment on Oligarchy and Anarchy by Siva Vaidhyanathan http://mjdelia.com/2010/01/31/oligarchy-and-anarchy/#comment-62 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:39:13 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=303#comment-62 Thank you so much. I deeply appreciate that you took the time to read my book.

I hope you like my next one as well.

Siva

]]> Comment on HMW: How might we… by hazel wagner http://mjdelia.com/2010/01/18/hmw-how-might-we/#comment-61 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:25:15 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-61 It is amazing how a turn of phrase can open up thinking. I will add a link to my brainstorming-that-works.com website to this blog. Also, you didn’t mention the names of the books you have been reading but perhaps one of them was Power Brainstorming.

]]> Comment on Information Literacy in the Age of YouTube by cutii likes lingerie http://mjdelia.com/2009/06/18/il-age-of-youtube/#comment-44 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:00:04 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=250#comment-44 That’s good information: unknown person said he argued that we need to pay attention to images and other visual information for two main reasons 1 images tell stories and 2 stories help us understand our world.

]]> Comment on Against the Machine by govangogh http://mjdelia.com/2009/07/09/against-the-machine/#comment-43 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:13:31 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-43 As someone who has been participating in commerce or marketing online from 95 on, I am prepared to agree with Mr Siegel. As a worker, the internet aspect of labor means becoming a better interface for the machine. For the consumer it means being more minutely and completely marketed to. The appearance of unlimited choice filtered for you by the same folks who already know what they want you to buy.
I am a heavy user of the web, but like most things in the hands of a rapacious system, the results are often frightening.

]]> Comment on Book by dlc http://mjdelia.com/book/#comment-37 Sat, 16 May 2009 15:23:14 +0000 http://mjdelia.wordpress.com/?page_id=238#comment-37 … excellent!

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