I believe to understand where we want to go, we first need to remember where we have been. Because the article I wrote is long, I’m taking a page from Charles Dickens, and publishing it in 3 shorter installments.

Hopefully, I can write a decent cliffhanger at the end or each part to make you want to come back for more.

Incunabulum \In`cu*nab”u*lum\, n.; pl. Incunabula. [L. incunabula cradle, birthplace, origin. See 1st In-, and Cunabula.] A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500.

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This piece was written by a friend of mine Clark Aldrich, who also authors one of the best blogs around the blogosphere about digital education in the Knowledge Economy. He is also the simulations Guru. Check out his terrific blog at Unschooling Rules

For the later part of the 19th century and the first half of the twentieth, the number of doctors rose dramatically. This is despite the fact that doctors did not help the patient, and in many cases made things worse. The truth was that there was a desperate need for doctors that overwhelmed the reality.

That brings us to today’s school-based technique of testing. The vision is to have concentrated moments of pure evaluation, where students are asked to demonstrate what they know.

And we want tests to work so badly. We love the idea of a simple to deploy, objective mechanism that can sort, motivate, and diagnose – the equivalent of quality control at a car manufacturing plant looking for defects in parts after they have been produced.

The only problem is that test do everything wrong. Read More

Sometimes you can learn a great deal about learning while you’re learning to do the potatoe dance. Take a minute to watch this lesson about two forks and two potatoes …

Hello. My name is Jesus of Nazareth. I am the son of God and have come to preach God’s word to man. I thought Facebook would be a good place to start with so many million faces to talk with.

Comments:

Susan: Hey what about women? As in the womb of men?

Jesus: All men and women are God’s children. Man is a short way of saying mankind.

Susan: Still don’t like but okay. Preach on!

Jesus: Today I spoke to many followers of The Word on Mount Olive. My followers filmed my sermon and I’m posting it here for those of you who could not make it to the mountain.

Roman Legionnaire: I watched the video and was not impressed.

Jesus: I have proven I am the Son of the Father many times. I raised Lazarus from the dead.

Lazarus: Hey I’m the Lazarus you raised form the dead. I hate you for bringing me back to this camel dung heap. Thanks a lot. Not!

Jesus: I’m sorry you feel that way. Its part of God’s plan and you are among the blessed.

Lazarus: Blessed my He-Haw Ass. There was nothing but oblivion. Even a truly bad day here in the village is a nicer place to be.

Jesus: Oblivion is but a waysation on the path to heaven. A gate before the throne. God would not have sent you back if you had passed though to the Heaven from which I come.

Lazarus: Then I can’t wait to die again and get past all that nothing.

Peter: I have written down some of the words of my Lord here, and for those few of you who can read, I heartily suggest you spend the time and commit them to your memory.

Judas: Ha! I’d have to go away and live in a cave to do that!

Paul: Well here’s another link to some of the words I captured and I added some nice pictures of Jesus and his wife Mary as well. The kids in the background are also his.

Susan: Cute kids!

Margaret: I didn’t know he had so many! And they are cute.

Rabbi Abraham: Are they also the Sons and Daughters of God?

Jesus: No, sorry but they are the issue of Mary and I, as human as any children born of woman and man. I am who I am.

Rabbi Abraham: So what does that mean ‘I am who I am’? I am who I am also.

Jesus: It means I am the Son of The Father. I am who I am. Get it? Only my Father is God the Almighty. Now do you get it?