While chatting with a colleague, they made the following observation about my work as a K-12 educator in educational technology. I found it a fascinating perspective and insight. So, I wrote it down, waited a few years before sharing it online. ;-) At the end, I share the results of The Orwell Test …
Photo by Soledad Lorieto on Unsplash “You’ll be happy to know, Doug, this isn’t a dead horse.” Over at The Blue Skunk blog, Doug “Old Timer” Johnson, quotes someone who asks, “Is blogging dead?” (paraphrase). Doug writes: The Blue Skunk was started in …
Earlier this year (2024), I had the chance to facilitate a workshop on a topic I’d spent a LONG time reading about and researching. I felt ignorant about it, so much so that I started out studying logic, what constituted logical fallacies, types of bias, and more. It was great because I was …
When watching evangelicals on television, listening to incessant political adds of 2024, I am often reminded what theologian Dick Westley calls “religion vs faith” conversation. Here’s an excerpt from his book, Redemptive Intimacy: For many evangelicals, it seems Christianity is a …
Thanks to Stephanie DeYoung, I had a chance to see again how history is hidden. Like the person in the video at the top of the Wakelet shown below, I was ignorant of my U.S. history. I can claim it as a descendant of Norwegian immigrants. We are all ignorant of our history, there should be little …
As I take the time to read the history of my Panamanian roots, I realize how much I don’t know. But I do have threads to cling to, that I can grasp and pull greater truths closer. One of the words my mother told me of as a child as that of “The Guaymí.” I never understood what the …