Why this blog?

I have had another blog at edublogs for quite a while now, but it has sort of gone "dormant" in the last year or so. This depresses me. The reasons are various, and not worth going in to here.

I realized, a few weeks ago, that this does NOT mean that I am not learning and growing. It's just that most of the more interesting thoughts and growth that I've experienced lately has not necessarily been professional (I'm a teacher, and my other blog is more about using technology in the classroom and such).

The ways I have been stretched more recently have been personal and spiritual. This doesn't match the audience of my other blog (which is oriented toward education and technology). Maybe this is one reason I haven't posted there lately. It didn't seem right to blog about the environment, nutrition, or my faith on a blog that people hopefully go to for conversation and tips about technology. Yes, there's something to be said for being yourself and not hiding your faith, but it seemed best to keep the two purposes/audiences separate, at least for now.

I'm just setting this one up now, so maybe soon I'll blog about what I've been thinking about lately:

postmodernism
legalism
the (irrelevant) religious right
pacifism
food/nutrition (much more interesting than I used to think!)
and more...

How do we remember things?

We remember 10% of what we read.
We remember 20% of what we hear.
We remember 30% of what we see.
We remember 50% of what we hear and see.
We remember 70% of what we say.
We remember 90% of what we say as we do a thing.
We remember 100% of what we present.


This has terrific applications / implications for teaching. Having students present to each other is very important (they’ll remember 100% of that content). Sometimes harder to do as far as lesson plans, etc., but if our goal is for students to remember what we’re wanting to each them, we need to move in this direction. Of course, any of the other activities listed are an improvement on just expecting our students to read something and remember it. This as challenging to me as I am nearing the beginning of a new school year.