When in the course of one teacher’s career, it becomes necessary to record his thoughts about teaching, history and the changing environment of education; a decent respect to the opinions of the blogisphere require that he set for the reasons for this blogging.
I hold these truths to be self-evident, that not all education is created equal, that seismic shifts in humans’ relationship with information are changing our process of critical thinking, expression of acknowledged competence, and nature and manner of collaboration.
That to secure a valid and complete education, learning experiences are designed by teachers and schools. That whenever these learning experiences do not acknowledge humans’ changing relationship with information, it is the right, it is the duty of individual teachers to devote their efforts to creating more valid learning environments, designing student assignments on such principles and organizing their learning experience in such form, as to prepare them for the world in which they live, rather than the world in which the teacher grew up.
Such has been the patient work of this teacher; and such is now the necessity which requires him to alter his teaching and record his experiences here.
To prove this, let the following posts be submitted to a candid world.