I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“. […]
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Maladaptive Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Let’s come to a shared understanding of the term “maladaptive learning“. What does the term mean to you? Maladaptive learning, in my understanding, refers to a learning process where an individual acquires or reinforces behaviors or thought patterns that hinder their ability to adapt effectively to
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Turning Up the Learning with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Because the greatest crises facing the next generations are not independent naturally occurring crises, because, instead, they are themselves the results of how past generations learned to respond to their crises and learned to share what they learned in responding, the most minimally presumptuous maximally
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The following occurred during a conversation about the potentially profound life-benefitting effects of learning to experience yourself as “always learning to become who you are becoming”. Just after describing the benefits to young children who learned to learn that way. I Am Always in All Ways Learning to Become Me And, after a rough outline
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Over the last decade or so educational conferences seem to have devolved from collaborative learning events to marketing events. Typical conferences of the past, I did over 100 of them, would pay speaker’s fees and pay their travel expenses because they wanted to choose speakers according to their conference’s learning values – according to what
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Its hard for kids who “fall behind” in school NOT to take one of 4 paths: 1 – they have a recognized talent that provides opportunities to ascend that are less dependent on learning in school. 2 – someone in their world recognizes their danger and mentors them into catching back up. 3 – they