In my last post I discussed Benjamin Bloom and how Bloom’s Taxonomy can be a guide to helping us determine if we’ve truly learned something, as well as give us objectives in helping others learn concepts in such a way that they can understand, apply, analyze and improvise them.  Throughout Bloom’s career he sought [...]

How do we learn?  What constitutes comprehension of a particular subject?  What about mastery and the ability to improvise?  These kinds of questions trail about behind me constantly like the wake of a high speed boat.  I love to learn, and I discover more every day about how I best acquire certain types of skills.  [...]

Recently I started reading “Get Out of Your Own Way”, by Dr. Robert K. Cooper.  While discussing some fascinating aspects of how the human brain operates, Cooper states the following:
“The writer Walker Percy once said that a tragedy of our modern life is that everything is interesting but nothing becomes deeply important.  One of [...]