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Tag: Education

  • Computers in School: A Letter to Ann Arbor Parents

    “I believe that education which does not occur through forms of life or that are worth living for their own sake, is always a poor substitute for the genuine reality and tends to cramp and to deaden.” -John Dewey Consider the scenario: A salesperson for Skittles makes a case that every student should have a…

  • Competence = Confidence

    Every fall, my dad and I head north for our annual fly-fishing trip. It’s a chance to reconnect with each other and with nature, and to feed my soul with sustenance for the long Michigan winter. I have this trip circled for 364 days, and yet every year, a few days before I leave, I’m…

  • The New TikTok Challenge

    For the impossible task of choosing a film for movie night with my kids, I’ve resorted to Googling “Best kids movies of 1984” so I can force them to watch what I watched as a six-year-old. They give it twenty minutes before they can turn it off. Last Friday I chose The Neverending Story, a film…