Archive for June, 2008

The Importance of Imagination in Learning

Imagination is so important to learning. I’m afraid that we’re all so busy with the press of the day that we haven’t time or opportunity to wonder or create. I’m so glad that someone in my neighborhood was creative and took the time to make an air conditioner interesting to this passerby. (I think the [...]

The Importance of the right Questions

Bill Farren over atĀ Education for Well-beingĀ posts what I believe is the heart of the matter about all this talk about reform: the power to ask the right questions.
Are we asking students to wonder? To question? Or are we just asking them to tell us what was said? Are we asking them to consider the Big [...]