Vision

What We Do Best

Posted by on March 6, 2012 at 11:31 pm

The picture to the left is the back of Ben’s art project (which came home today).  It says: Baldasaro P3 Blue It represents what we do best. Sort kids. We sort them into homeroom. We sort them into pods. We sort them into classrooms. We sort them into periods. We sort them into math, english, [...]

Students Don’t Fall Behind (without deadlines)

Posted by on March 5, 2012 at 11:27 pm

I have explored this thought before (here, here, and here), but I still don’t understand why we always want to put a stopwatch on learning.  Yes, I get the constraints that physical schools and systems have and how hard traditions are to break.  But, one of the things I love about working in a virtual [...]

What If Time Was Not a Limiting Factor in Learning

Posted by on February 23, 2012 at 9:35 am

Thanks to KreativMagazin for sharing this on YouTube.

“Get A Life”

Posted by on February 15, 2012 at 10:46 am

Over the weekend, my son Ben, a friend of his, and I clicked across a show called “Finding Bigfoot”.  In it, a team of scientists scurry around forests in the middle of the night in search of a “Squatch”.  In this one particular episode, two gentlemen armed with parabolic microphones, heat sensors, night vision cameras, [...]