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[Ir]Relevance.

SaraJoy Pond
Education

If relevance is really as simple as relation to the matter at hand, then the more matter I have "at hand" as a student; the more curious and engaged I am, the more connected I become to the people and processes of the world, the more there is to my LIFE, the more instruction I’ll find "relevant.”

"Ye Have Need of Patience"

"Ye Have Need of Patience"

SaraJoy Pond
Evaluation

I've been vexed all week. Really, vexed. Here's a selection of the blog posts I didn't write this week: "Why Open Education Won't Save the World," "Lurking and Ignorance in Qualitative Research" and "The Malignant Delusion of Educational Assessment.” Like I said... vexed.

Sense Memories

Sense Memories

SaraJoy Pond
Education

I call them sense memories because I don’t have any other word for them. Not even memories really, because I don’t remember them. I smell them. I taste them. I hear them. They’re just irrevocably there--fixed on my senses like nuclear-etched shadows on the walls in Nagasaki.

Becoming Skinner

Becoming Skinner

SaraJoy Pond
Education

Perhaps taking passionate, more-convicted-than-you-could-possibly-be stands that move the discipline forward is worth looking arrogant, short-sighted, and foolish several decades down the line…

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