STEMs of a New Education in America

For those of you who don’t know, Colorado is currently undergoing a massive educational reform (or, at least it’s trying).  Here are some scary statistics (and if you don’t believe me, look ’em up):   *The average cost of educating one child annually is nearly $13,000 *District 11 (here, in Colorado Springs) is suffering from a lack …

Creating Inspired Adults, Not Worker Bees

I’m currently taking the class Frameworks in American Education with Mike Taber (who is incredible, by the way).  Today we brought up the idea of the new paradigm.  That is, we discussed in class possible paper ideas where we propose a shift or change in the American educational system.  One of the ideas that came up …

The End of the First week!

Wow I honestly can’t believe it is already the end of the first week of block 4!  Time flies when you’re having fun in a lab class. But really this week flew by.  That always seems to happen the first week after block break though.  This block I am taking Bacterial Genetics and Physiology.  It is an upper level elective for Biology, and …

Ignorance, Knowledge, Dejection, Power, and Contextualization of Self in Outer Space. A Cycle.

We’ve just come to the end of third week, which means that we are approaching the dreaded FOURTH WEEK. This is when students survive on pizza, candy, and coffee. Lots of coffee. The end for my class in particular involves a systematic organizing of the concepts we’ve learned. Part of this is asking questions: Have …

Hellenistic Poetry and Philosophy

Last week we moved on from Herodotus and began to read selections of poetry from the Hellenistic period in Greece from around the fall of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. up until the eventual conquest of Greece by Rome in 146 B.C. The selections included Appollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, Theocritus’ Idylls, and the Epigrams …

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