Author: EdwardBerger
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AIN’T IT AWFUL
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As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught of those planning to destroy the American way of life. From every quarter people are asking how can this happen? How can a pathological liar and con man be the tool…
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THE WOLF IS SNARLING AT THE DOOR
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Will it get in? As of this date it has clawed away the doorknob. It has been hunting and threatening us for a long time and it has already feasted upon the US Supreme Court and the GOP. It has hidden behind organizations with fake names. It has the face and bigotry of Leonard Leo,…
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WHAT PARENTS LEARN TOO LATE
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You are working toward a time, maybe 15 or 20 years in the future, when you transition from a parent role to that of your child’s best friend. Until that time, you have parenting responsibilities. You are a model, a disciplinarian, a teacher, a guide and you are responsible for setting parameters within which the…
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WILL YOUR CHILDREN SURVIVE ALIEN INTELLIGENCE?
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For more than a decade many educators have become aware that our educational systems are preparing kids for our past and not for survival in their future. Fact-based or data-driven education based on competition is over. Education as measured by standardized tests and measurement form the basis of our past educational systems. That type of…
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EMBEDDING EMOTIONS
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It doesn’t take long for it to sink in that your children emulate your good and bad habits. It’s really jolting when your four-year-old tells someone to fuck off. If you come home filled with frustrations from a day spent fighting with others, you probably like to unwind by elucidating to your mate that so-and-so…
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PARENTHOOD
In 1984, after many years working with other people’s children, Jo and I decided to change our lives so we could start our own family. In 1985 when our first son was born, this new reality forced us to change the way we defined ourselves. We had been operating as if we were the leading…
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FINDING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
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AI Requires Entirely Different Communities (Part 7 of 7) A few years ago, I created the Facebook site, Education For Their Future Not Our Past. I was aware that with the coming of AI, the way we presently educate students is ineffective and does not prepare students for their future. The idea that students need…
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FINDING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Examples of Experiential and Collaborative Learning (Part 6 of 7) I think that some people imagine that experiential education is what happens if you don’t wash the dirt off your hands before eating. To Jo and me it meant leasing our home for a year, packing our belongings in backpacks, buying airline tickets and Eurail…
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FINDING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Educational Practices Limit the Effectiveness of Our Schools (PART 5 OF 7) When Jo and I left Crow Canyon, we decided that parenthood would be the most important focus of our lives. As the boys neared school-age we studied the educational systems driving the schools our children might attend. We did not find any educational…
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FINDING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Fighting Loneliness, Isolation and Lack of Purpose Part 4 of 7 Nations full of good people understand that they can enhance the value of their own lives by working together and building collaborative communities. As this happens, fewer people are isolated and alone. These ways of organizing to solve structural and/or social challenges are multi-age…