mis-education – Acts of Being

We Americans Love to Stay in Our Comfort Zones

April 27, 2012 by loydf

Math is hard, Barbie, and that goes for you too, Ken. It’s hard like tennis or basketball or baseball, requiring hours of hard work on basic skills when you really have little clue how those skills will really be used. When you have the basic skills of arithmetic or of fielding and throwing the ball, … [Read more…]

Now Can We Use Video Screens for Target Practice?

June 3, 2011 by loydf

This article, Poorer Reading Skills Following Changed Computer Habits of Children, discusses a study in which the reading abilities of children have deteriorated since 1970 in two countries in which children use computers more often in school and outside of school. That is, reading ability “has fallen rapidly since 1991 in both the US and … [Read more…]