Can You Teach Innovative Thinking To Your Kids? A new book The Innovator’s DNA by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen, challenges the old assumption that innovative thinking is something you’re born with rather than something you can learn. Studies have shown that only around 25-40% of innovative thinking is genetic, but that leaves Read More
Worldviews, Homeschoolers, and Differences Among Us I happened upon this blog a few days ago–by Dr. Jay Wile, a PhD in nuclear chemistry and a Christian. I loved what he had to share about his first time speaking on worldviews at a homeschooling convention. He started off saying that he’d never been around homeschoolers much Read More
Read Baktar for Halloween! One of my books is a kind of crazy story within a story about a black cat called Tar who actually turns out to be more than just a cat. And it’s also about Baktar, ancestor of Tar, who lived among the ancient Incas. Baktar, A Tale From the Andes makes Read More
Write Your Name in Other Languages I’ve had a link up on my website at various times for students to write their name in hieroglyphs or in cuneiform, but here’s a place to go to get the script for your name
Some Surprises about Study Habits Recently I dug up an old New York Times article that I wanted to re-read. I’m doing a little research on techniques that might help my new group of GED students that I’ll be tutoring in the weeks ahead (I’m a literacy/GED volunteer teacher). I decided this article was definitely worth posting Read More
