Does Our Culture Care Too Much About Answers? July 28, 2021July 27, 2021Jace Bower Are we doing it wrong? It: the learning model we’ve built our education system on. The current learning model that much of our education system uses is an answers-based model.…Continue readingDoes Our Culture Care Too Much About Answers?
Community-Building Requires Skill, Here’s Your Practice Turf July 14, 2021July 13, 2021Jace Bower One of my favorite quotes comes from American novelist Kurt Vonnegut: “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to…Continue readingCommunity-Building Requires Skill, Here’s Your Practice Turf
Why Free College Won’t Fix Higher Education’s Deeper Problem July 7, 2021July 6, 2021Jace Bower The idea of free college is controversial. A certain political movement on the Left has thrown their support in for free college. Others view plans for free college for everyone…Continue readingWhy Free College Won’t Fix Higher Education’s Deeper Problem
Pursue This, Instead of Perfection June 30, 2021June 29, 2021Jace Bower Sometimes life requires us to make little distinctions that have big impacts. We all want to do things well. But there’s an important distinction we should make between pursuing perfection…Continue readingPursue This, Instead of Perfection
How Project-Based Education Frees Students To Fail June 23, 2021June 16, 2021Jace Bower Project-based education is so effective because students learn by doing. But what happens when things don’t go as planned? How do students deal with failure in the context of project-based…Continue readingHow Project-Based Education Frees Students To Fail
Your Student Desperately Needs This Life Skill Before They Launch June 9, 2021June 8, 2021Jace Bower How many hours of practice does it take to master a skill? The popular answer is “10,000”, spread by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. Although there’s a lot of…Continue readingYour Student Desperately Needs This Life Skill Before They Launch
