A how-to for online education videos “Based on such research and my own experience in the trenches—and always keeping in mind that today’s net gen “consumer-student” is accustomed to fancy and punchy video—I offer “Ten Commandments” of developing engaging and pedagogically sound online content.”

Safe Spaces As Shield, Safe Spaces As Sword “I support people creating “safe spaces” as a shield by exercising their freedom of association to organize themselves into mutually supporting communities, run according to their own norms. But not everyone imagines “safe spaces” like that. Some use the concept of “safe spaces” as a sword, wielded […]

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

Why education is productive — a parable of men and beasts “We know the paradox.  Education improves earnings but most formal schooling appears to be a waste of time.  Many economists claim that education is mostly a means of signaling quality. I view education as a self-commitment to being a more productive kind of person.  […]

Is Eating Animals An Act of Love? “When Jesus came eating and drinking with the sinners and the tax collectors, his radical notion of inclusion shocked the individuals who had long awaited his arrival History lends us to believe that eating a meal with one’s neighbor was as much of a social event then as […]

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? “Some mental operations which seem to me to rise to the level of developmental milestones”