1. Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm The best tests will not only find out what students know but also stimulate thinking in novel ways. This is much more than regurgitating memorized facts. The test itself becomes...
Finished in April: 1. Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus by Sherry Weddell. I’m working on a separate book review post. But realizing I want to go back and re-read the book first. So I’m re-reading and...
Ok I’m not on Pinterest. I do have an account, but I’ve pinned all of two things, both when I had this idea of doing a page of patron saints links or something like that. I never but never go to Pinterest. But I like Dorian’s low...
1. The Island-below-the-Star written and illustrated by James Rumford. Bella loved this delightful Polynesian tale of five brothers who journey across the Pacific in search of adventure and an island they are sure must be out there. Navigating by...
[I’ve been meaning to write this since February, but life keeps getting me muddled. Why are book reviews both the hardest and easiest blog posts to write? It’s a great mystery. Anyway, I had an inquiry about this book today and it...
This is what Adoration looks like. A dozen children, four moms, one grandmother, and an excellent priest who believes that children, yes even the youngest children, can get to know Jesus in this wonderful way. I think the oldest child here is 8. The...
Bella, Sophie and Ben finding familiar locations on a map of the Fertile Crescent and Eastern Mediterranean. Tuesday Dom took a comp day and we went to the MFA for a field trip. Oh how we love the MFA. Sophie looks at a variety of seals beneath a...
Yesterday in a brilliantly titled piece, So Long and Thanks for All the Intersex Fish (If you don’t get the Douglas Adams reference… I’m sorry.), Simcha Fisher writes about how “Michael Potter, the founder and CEO of the...
For all my out of town family and friends who are following the news this morning, we’re south of Boston and well away from the towns they’re talking about in the news, although we do have family and friends in the lockdown area so you...
1. Lucy is now three months old and suddenly is learning all sorts of new things. Tonight she figured out how to say “B”. She echoed it back to me after I said, “Boo,” and was so pleased with herself she said it again and...
