Placing a Global Bet that Psychology Infused Via Education Can Change Human...
Supposedly for the better which is why the initiative is called Positive Psychology to sound inspirational. But citing back to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rodgers’ work as foundational makes this push...
View ArticleWhen Gaming Intends to Shape and Distort Our Perceptions of Everything Around...
A title that provocative really should be based on at least some speculation. Maybe with me looking bug-eyed and highly excitable. Nope. Everywhere I looked to try to make the K-12 gamification focus...
View ArticleTriune Consciousness-A $100 Phrase We Need to Grasp Why Every Wrong Leads to...
For those of you excited to hear your State may be reconsidering the Common Core, my research has always shown that CCSSI is a Bait and Switch tactic. So I am going to continue my focus on the real...
View ArticleConclusion: Now Enacting the Long Sought Planned Economy and Society Via the...
I did not take you through excruciating details on what has been sought since at least the 60s to fill you with a sense of woe but to ground present known intentions in their proper foundations. This...
View ArticleChange Perception, Change Behavior, Change Rules, Change Systems–the Real...
Today’s post reenforces my consistent point that what is going on in education ‘reforms’ at all levels is not about the how and what of getting as many students as possible as knowledgeable and able as...
View ArticleDeep Diving to Internal Mental Models to Increase Leverage for Accomplishing...
No, deep diving is not a Grab Your Attention Play on the ubiquity of the ambiguous term ‘deeper learning’ as a fundamental goal of 21st century education globally. The last fundamental transformation...
View ArticleEverybody In! Instilling the Proper Mode of Human Conduct to Capture Hearts
In the last post, the cited Behavioral Scientist article justifying the need for #Charlottesville Conversations in all schools nationally, in turn cited a 1987 book The Battle for Human Nature by Barry...
View ArticlePrerequisite for Social Justice and Equity: the Evidence Base for...
I found a good example of why social and emotional learning, under its various euphemistic names, just keeps being inserted as a critical, mandatory component of what Preschool through College...
View ArticleInstilling Desired Dreams to Cultivate Personal Identities and Purpose to...
Let’s go back in time again to a 1955 book cited in some footnotes on social and emotional learning. Called Utopia 1976, it alerts us why values, virtues, and imagining a different tomorrow are...
View ArticleSeduction rather than Overt Compulsion: Hubs, Spokes, DeVos Dictates, and...
Anyone hoping for at least a PG-13 post with that title will be disappointed I don’t mean the sexual definition of seduction. Instead, this type of seduction is when someone changes what they support...
View ArticleLucrative Deceit: Managing Consciousness By Conjoining Social Media & Charter...
This post was outlined before the outcry over Facebook’s gathering of data, but the outside in power of all that data on so much of the population should be kept in mind as we look at the Chan...
View ArticleMain Threat & Main Challenge Lies in the Organization of Our Individual &...
That quote came from a fall 2017 slideshare down in South America by Pavel Luksha, the Director of the Global Education Futures Initiative where he went on to post in his next sound byte that “The...
View ArticleImplanted Thoughts Never Had Before Via Citizen Science and the ABCD Framework
That was a longer writing break than I had intended but I got called up for jury duty, needed CLE credits, threw a 90th birthday party, and kept everyone happy last week with turkey, etc. Mostly though...
View ArticleAnother Gear Change: Perceiving the Patterns Underlying the Human Learning...
Over the weekend, I was reviewing my notes and trying to figure out how to explain the common transformative aims of what has arrived in my inbox since the beginning of 2019. A quote Kenneth Boulding...
View ArticleEpiphany Moment: Education as Cultural Transformation Using Heart and Mind...
Eureka! When I wrote the last post I recognized the common vision, but had not yet fully tracked down the why. That shifted quickly though when I followed up on one of the attendees at the Humanity 2.0...
View ArticleCollective Cognition: Stipulating Right Thinking and Prescribing Prevailing...
Never heard the phrase ‘collective cognition’ before? Wouldn’t creating required learning standards and then assessing for their presence in guiding a student’s thoughts and actions amount to learning...
View ArticleProspection: Training the Mind to Reject the Pre-Given World In Favor of What...
Most of us, at least of a certain age, see the word ‘Understand’ and then it has something to do with how the world actually works or events that transpired in the past and what likely caused them and...
View ArticleParrhesia, Bill Ayers, Reinventing Schools for Meaning-Making, and Rewiring...
Does that title seem a bit like a Jeopardy Question that starts with an unusual word and then leads to a notorious name for click bait? I wish, but Parrhesia is a Greek word that was in the last post’s...
View ArticleCritical Race Theory as a Tool for Social Reconstruction: Why Consistently...
Welcome to 2022. This post starts a series that once again gets to the essence of what educational practices and standards are intended to act as a handmaiden for–the transformation of individual...
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