The New York Sophist

I got a new GoPro so what better way to break it in than to walk and talk through something on my mind about teaching.

I think what explains the lack of student motivation best is that they have only one measure to evaluate things in this world: entertainment. Is it entertaining? If not, they won’t do it.

How do we engage a generation of people whose only reason to engage anything is that they think it is entertaining?

On Friday I’ll post the second vlog on this topic. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get the first look!

I don’t put a lot of personal stuff on here, but thought I might start doing some different kinds of posts to keep up the variety. You can of course blow past these if you are here to read my thoughts on education, debate, and rhetoric.

We had a big Noreaster -biggest one in a few years – yesterday and it was impressive. I wasn’t brave enough to go out in it last night, but here’s the tail end of it the morning after the storm hit.

This was shot with my new GoPro 9 that I was suspicious about at first but really do think is a vast improvement over my trusty GoPro 7.

Well, it might be more than the halfway point, but here are some reflections from the participants in the 2009 Japan-U.S. debate exchange so far. More to come!