Philosophy Without A Home

Making Decisions   After doing the readings and listening to the Elluminate session during this week’s edfutures lesson . I just keep going back to how can I use this new-found knowledge of decision-making in the classroom.   Basically, as I understand it decision-making is making educated guesses about what the future is going to hold. We base these decisions on past events and past experiences. We can train for eventualities, but at least for me, that doesn’t really help as much as having the real experiences.   I’ve read before that Captain Sulley was the exact right person to be flying a jet that was going to have to make a crash landing into the Hudson River because he lives and breathes flying. When the birds hit the jet he didn’t panic, rather he fell back onto his training and did what he had to do to land the plane safely. Recently, I’ve heard that other pilots working in simulators have managed to return the jet to the airport.  Whoopie do! First, there is a difference betwee

The world is changing that is a fact. Education is changing. We seem to be transitioning from a set quantifiable collection of facts that make up being educated and we are moving towards an idea of lifelong learners or critical thinkers or creative learners. At least educators are doing this, it seems that the politicians are doing the best they can to stop the march of change. Edfutures started this week talking about creating an artifact. We want to create something so when we come back years later to reference what we learned in this course we would have something to point to. But in reality the creation of an artifact is just the top level of Bloom’s taxonomy . We are creating something new from what we learned. What we are doing this week is discussing creativity and critical thinking. Then I listen to Jesse Schell and his Designing Outside the Box presentation at DICE . And he talks about games. As he started talking about Facebook and Farmville and how th