by Sean | May 25, 2016 | Education, Politics, Teaching
Anyone reading the news today would assume that bathrooms are the biggest issue facing our education system. Why are we fighting over something as trivial as which bathroom a student prefers to use when our education system is one of the worst in the modern world? In...
by Sean | Apr 23, 2016 | EdTech, Education, Learning, Teaching
What do you want to be when you grow up? How many times were you asked this as a kid? Was your answer ever the same from month to month? Chances are that you’re not currently doing that job (and maybe you never will). This question is bullshit. Every...
by Sean | Apr 19, 2016 | Education, Politics
As a country we’re more concerned about our economy than anything else during this election cycle. If you’ve been watching the primaries you might have noticed that there has been little to no discourse about education. According to Gallup only 3-5% of Americans see...
by Sean | Apr 15, 2016 | Education, Government, Learning, Teaching, Tech
Every child in America should be have access to the internet. It’s a necessity as learning moves online. And our children need to develop digital literacy to participate in the innovation economy. Yet 15% of Americans don’t have access to the internet....
by Sean | Apr 9, 2016 | EdTech, Education, NYC, Teaching
New York is an amazing city. It is one of the largest drivers of commerce in our country. And I’ve been privellaged enough to live and work in its economic bubble for my entire life. Most people don’t know that NYC has the poorest congressional district in...
by Sean | Mar 28, 2016 | Education, Learning, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Pschyology, Stoicism
I was observing a middle school math class a few weeks ago and the teacher started diving into an algebra problem. He was explaining to students how to solve a multistep algebraic equation. But the lesson finished without ever touching upon why students should learn...