Gary’s Blog

Another post based on my file clean-up. This is from about 25 years ago, and it largely still accurate. So just what are the things that I believe about learning?

Prior to starting work compiling the portfolio, one should compose two statements of purpose: The brief statement will serve as the first page of the portfolio and the longer one is a brainstorming and clarification document. Composing each will focus the portfolio creator’s attention on what is being done, why it is being done, and Read More

I recently found this piece I wrote several years ago about a book written by a high school classmate: In 2018, one of my high school classmates wrote Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America’s Students (Baker, 2018) in which he takes a close look at the myth “we are spending more, Read More

I am in the middle of cleaning out old files. I discovered a assignment for my doctoral studies in which I commented on my observations of school principals and their collective ignorance of technology. I am unsure of it is still true. I hope my observations are les true than they were, but I expect Read More

Media theorists tend to understand information technology as a non-neutral aspect of culture. These scholars recognize characteristics of cognition and interaction that are attributed to the effects of information technologies.  Walter Ong used the term primary orality to describe cultures that are free of writing, so the only way to recall was to “think memorable Read More

Cognitive and learning scientist are finding evidence that brains process the information that is stored in memories. The processing allows the learner to find connections and organize the memories. As a result, what one “knows” is not a collection of discrete facts, but it is integrated and one’s knowledge can be used to create new Read More