Test Scores & gay index

International Test Scores do not correlate to Anything!  Plain and simple.  Sorry Superman you can go back to the ice cave.

What does matter?  I am with Florida, the author, not the state.  Hyperpowers matter.  That is what we should be teaching.
Technology, Talent, and Tolerance!

I also appreciate Florida's use of the gay index. And living in Seattle is the perfect example.  This city is the world leader in technology.  It is full of talented people with terrific educations.  And it is extremely tolerant of others.  And it has a great gay population flourishing in this city.

My friend Mark Galbo, creator of the real "Rock and Roll Academy" in Telluride, always spoke of turning students from consumers to producers.  He was on to something!  It needs to go beyond music.  Education need to work with strengths.  Students need personal learning of their own choice and design.

And my last idea today is a little off the previous thread.
Coltrane saw the Circle of 5ths.. Some time you need to learn the basics or the rules in  order to improvise, change it, and make it better.  You need a data base to draw conclusions.  You need to memorize in order to improvise.

The five R's are tired!  School curriculum haven't changed and they need to.  The world doesn't have silo problems.  It has multi-level integreated problems.  It is time to create a school curriculum that doesnt' spend so much time seperating subjects.  Math is in every class.  What class don't you need English in?
I like the TED idea.  Technology, Entertainment, and Design

The Talent of Teaching

The Talent of Teaching = Empathy! or Theory of Mind!
The opposite of theory of mind = autism.  No social cues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

Dunbar's number -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
The number of people that you can maintain a social relation ship with, guess what a good number for schools to use would be...  At high school maybe per class, but that would be max!
Middle School division = 150

Best empathy training = theater arts

What was a brain designed to do?

• Solve problems
• Survival
• In changing weather
• while in motion

Our traditional classroom are a  bad idea for brains and brain development.  That goes for cubicles too.

There is no none correlation to content and critical thinking skills.


We have been seduced by short term outcomes!  We live in a culture looking at the immediate.  Education is a long term ride, it should be a lifetime.  Not the hours spent in the walls of a poorly designed classroom.

Choice shouldn't be a choice.

First of all this school reform attention is painful to watch.  Same stuff different day.  I have been hearing about how we are falling behind since I started school.  Bunch of garbage.
The model is broken, deal with it.  I could say the same thing about the government and lobbyists, but that is a conversation for another day.  The school model is broken.  There is a reason Prussia isn't around anymore, time to say the same fore their model of education.  When someone wants to really take a look at change in education give me a call, I will do all of the work.

Here is a good article on Choice in schools.  duh!
http://connected.waldenu.edu/archive/item/606-making-room-for-the-self-in-school