Missouri Education Watchdog offers us today's article: These videos are hysterical. It is amusing to watch an animal who can’t help himself chase the shiny object.  It is less amusing when it is human beings who are chasing something shiny that is not real. In 2013, to much fanfare, the US The U.S Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) posted a report for public comment: Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century. Here was this shiny moving target telling us we needed to teach and measure other, more important, things in our kids than just academics. We needed to be teaching them important “life skills” like … [Read more...]