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Chomsky. 1. The first thing I write down is TADOMA METHOD OF LANG. ACQUISITION. Later, I Google it. The top hit is Wikipedia: “Tadoma is a method of communication utilized by deafblind individuals, in which the listener places their little finger on the speaker’s lips and their fingers along the jawline. The middle three fingers often…

I feel overwhelmed by the amount of educational theories that have simply been mentioned or listed at this point in the semester. I do not understand how all of this research fails to be debated, or even utilized,  in actual classrooms. Worse still, school boards are populated by elected members rather than appointed scholars or…

Simplifying my ideas down to a dichotomy for easy digestion, technology impacts communication in two opposing ways: barrier or asset. When message reception is unwanted, technology disrupts communication with a convenient distraction. When message reception is desired, technology enhances communication with additional assets such as real-time exchanges over distances, and optional visual components like one-to-one…

What does it mean to know? At some point I read or heard that the human brain (mind?) has finite capacity for remembering, making the “use it or lose it” maxim true. What you learn, but don’t need, or don’t occasionally exercise, is forgotten to free up space. It doesn’t need to be useful, but…

A major problem in “Power/Knowledge for Educational Theory: Stephen Ball and the Reception of Foucault” by Chia-Ling Wang is the writer’s implication that educational systems can be evaluated as a single structural paradigm. Wang seems to avoid any specification of who the students are or how they factor into her battle of thoughts and the…