למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

One of the things that can help you balance your intellectual life is to read outside your subject area. And you’d be surprised at how much of a difference that deviation from the norm can make to your own studies.

The people who set your assignments are at least smart enough to ask specific questions about the specific things that you were told about in class or directed to read about. You will never, at university, get an assignment to simply ‘write about volcanos’. Your task will always be specific enough so that you will have to engage with the material, reflect on what you’ve learned and say some interesting things about it.

I think we need moderated social networks in schools where students have opportunities to make mistakes and learn from them

I want to reverse the ethics: why in the world would someone like me want to be giving away all her own ideas for free?

what I have learned is that ideas themselves are rarely original. We all borrow and all think up the same thing at once. It is shaping, fashioning, implementing, developing, and communicating ideas that is the point. That's why I blog every day. It helps me fashion and also helps me create a community whose ideas nourish my thinking.