Surfing the Contrived Sluice to a Citizen Fit for Constitutional Democracy So...
I want you to think of the kind of sluice you knew from the log ride at an amusement park with two sides that force all water down the same pathway. That’s how learning standards and competency-based...
View ArticleCritical Race Theory as a Tool for Social Reconstruction: Why Consistently...
Welcome to 2022. This post starts a series that once again gets to the essence of what educational practices and standards are intended to act as a handmaiden for–the transformation of individual...
View ArticleExceptions For Ideals and Principles Backfire When Liberty Becomes a Marxist...
Despite all the uses of the terms ‘grassroots outcry’ and ‘organic movement of parents’ with reference to the widespread sudden outcries over CRT–Critical Race Theory (which I deplore, which is why...
View ArticleShared Reality is Essential but Not Enough. Shared Values Must Also be...
After the last post insisting we must all shift to new mental models, the drumbeat of the need to “create a shared reality” as this article laid out...
View ArticleWe Must Reframe Americans’ Mental Models toward Shared Fate and Equal...
Our LMS from the last post will be useful for that, won’t it? Let’s get to several quotes before I get to the document called “Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in...
View ArticleEducation as a Form of Brain Surgery Means We Better All Appreciate the...
Gone for a while and here I show back up with a new acronym. An LMS is a Learning Management System. It provides the learning experiences, prescribes the activities, and collects tremendous amounts of...
View ArticleIntrinsic and Collective: Race and Restorative Justice as Visions to Upgrade...
If I have ever in my life said the trite phrase “may we live in interesting times,” I take it back. Hopefully, we are not all suffering too much from “What Next?” exhaustion because we have some...
View ArticleRemaking, Remodeling, Redesigning, Reprogramming the Mind and Heart for...
One of the striking things in the last violent week here in the US and in the city I call home is how the sought remedies for the supposed Pandemic are also being touted as the remedies for the tragic...
View ArticleParrhesia, Bill Ayers, Reinventing Schools for Meaning-Making, and Rewiring...
Does that title seem a bit like a Jeopardy Question that starts with an unusual word and then leads to a notorious name for click bait? I wish, but Parrhesia is a Greek word that was in the last post’s...
View ArticleStealthily Weaving Cybernetic Citizenship at the Requisite Neural Level in...
Getting back to our theme of how useful this Pandemic Hype and the mandated shutdowns of schools, colleges and universities, and many businesses has been to the already announced global agenda for...
View ArticleHotwiring the Second Wing of the Eagle: Utilize the Human Brain as the...
I suppose I am giving away both my age (autos before too many electronics) and geography (southern) with that metaphor, but it struck me on a walk yesterday that the old technique for surreptitiously...
View ArticleDestination Identity: Scaffolding the Collective Images of the Desired...
Let’s go back in time to the 1960s for social plans before comparing them to plans from last month in the UK clearly following the same long desired blueprint. The back cover of The Art of Conjecture...
View ArticleDiscerning and then Retraining the ‘In-Order-To’ Image that Will Guide Future...
From the Ford Foundation’s Realizing Democracy template that lays out how “Fixing Democracy demands the building and aligning of people’s motivation and authority to act”...
View ArticleCollective Cognition: Stipulating Right Thinking and Prescribing Prevailing...
Never heard the phrase ‘collective cognition’ before? Wouldn’t creating required learning standards and then assessing for their presence in guiding a student’s thoughts and actions amount to learning...
View ArticleStandardizing Self-Transcendence & Psychological Attributes to Deliberately...
Since none of us were probably invited to NYC for the United Nations General Assembly last month, they just announced the roll out of a Futures of Education initiative with a ‘Learning to Become’...
View ArticleTotalitarianism or Rightful Regulation? The Reasons for the Redirection of...
When I wrote Credentialed to Destroy and then later started this blog, I knew I could trace what was actually occurring, even if I did not always understand precisely why or the reason for so much...
View ArticleEpiphany Moment: Education as Cultural Transformation Using Heart and Mind...
Eureka! When I wrote the last post I recognized the common vision, but had not yet fully tracked down the why. That shifted quickly though when I followed up on one of the attendees at the Humanity 2.0...
View ArticleRebooting the Mind and Heart to Get at Humanity 2.0 and a Global Convergence
We are going to do a travelogue today using quotes from a UNESCO institute in India with a vision written by American education profs, hen a May conference at the Vatican we were not invited to, on to...
View ArticleAspirations of Controlling Consciousness, A New Kind of ‘Thinking Beast,’&...
In the last post, we talked about the planned evolution of human cognition using curricula for K-12 and higher ed, as well as through learning standards that are consistently misexplained to obscure...
View ArticleUnleashing the Power of Disruptive Imagination in Every Citizen to Avoid...
Educators, think tanks, and other social scientists are not the only ones who can ‘backwards map’ from desired individual and social outcomes to the policies that need to be prescribed by law to put...
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