Thunderstruck

I just finished Erik Larsen’s Thunderstruck, the tale of Guglielmo Marconi’s quest to bring wireless telegraphy to the world and the famous Hawley Crippen murder case that finally established its viability and value. I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. Marconi may have founded the world’s first tech startup, and [...]

Kata, Major Scales, and Bloom’s Taxonomy

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/i1qiQwLIICg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about something that has nothing – and everything – to do with educational technology. I’ve been thinking about higher order thinking skills and the emphasis that educational reformers place on them. There is definitely a bias among progressive education critics against rote memorization [...]