Between the By-Road and the Main Road. In light of Tom Whitby's "modest proposal" to post a blog about positive educational reform on 10.17.10, I found myself thinking about reform and redesign. Now, I am not much for reform as I think the word, the process, and what it has come to mean is at best, tired—and for the last 40 years, increasingly divisive. I do believe though that redesign is needed in public education and I offer here a simple way to revolutionize public and private education. Be a learner (your choice of passions and interests), study how you and others learn, and bring all of it with you to your classroom, school or district, and show it off via public exhibitions. Personal learning passions and public exhibitions of learner's work are more important than national and state standards movements, national and state testing, national and state curriculum maps, and the like.
Listen to Whitman, who in Song of Myself , wrote: The past and present wilt - I have fill'd them, emptied them. So what am I advocating? Literacy Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources. Movingforward - Education Blogs by Discipline. iLearn Technology. Free Technology for Teachers. School tools.