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Recent Articles

• Complexity: students learn “success” is getting multiple-choice questions right … no wonder graduates are stunned by the intricacy of real life
  January 24, 2019
• Development-based: redo levels or episodes as often as necessary to master the material
  January 23, 2019
• Editable: Students cheat – those that do not, worry that others will; ergo, any assessment tool must be quickly and easily mutable
  January 22, 2019
• Foundational: schools are all about memorization of concepts; success in life is about the application of mental models
  January 21, 2019
• Grounded: we cannot effectively get children into adulthood until we get the ivory tower out of higher education
  January 20, 2019
• Hypothesis-driven: good strategists develop hypotheses, then test them to see if those chosen strategies can be successful; do you?
  January 19, 2019
• Individual: I confess that I have given passing grades to hundreds of students who did not deserve it
  January 18, 2019
• Judicial: education is feedback; student decisions must be constantly critiqued, not just “scored”
  January 17, 2019
• Kinetic: to engage students keep plot, place, and people are constantly on the move – our brains learn and retain more in unfamiliar setting
  January 16, 2019
• Logical: many top graduates do not know how to make a coherent, consistent argument and defend it – but even in the Attention Economy, it must be taught
  January 15, 2019