Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave

There continues to be resistance among some in education who see learning social networking skills and online publishing as somehow outside of the framework of the set curriculum. I could not disagree more. I have seen my learners’ writing skills improve astronomically via use of our classroom blogs, and recognize that so much of social [...]

Interesting self-assessment here which attempts to identify how good we are at specific problem solving in the workplace. Produced by VitalSmarts.

In his article, “Pleasure, Beauty, Wonder,” John M. Eger, communications and public policy professor at the University of San Diego, intones a familiar refrain in today’s discussion over how to educate students: Is the beauty in our world and in education being lost in the race for information? Eger points out the following statistics to [...]

Andrew J. Rotherman analyzes “21st century skills” and confronts the perennial conflict between content-oriented and skills-oriented education and comes to the conclusion–with which I agree whole-heartedly–that this discussion presents a false choice. Rotherman correctly contends that whether to focus more on how to learn rather than what to learn has been debated since the days [...]

I have a broad and effective skillset demonstrated by the following: Educational systems creation and management Curriculum development and management Squeezing the most out of an administrative budget Educational marketing Developing outside support networks IT skills, including Word, Excel, Acrobat, Photoshop, Dream Weaver, html and css, Publisher, etc. Current with and excited about all the [...]