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The courage to make mistakes is related in some measure to curiosity, exploration, and the ability to speak honestly about a topic and about ourselves.

We are born curious—so what happened?

That is, demonstrating our own curiosity and inspiring and cultivating the natural curiosity in others.

To a B.C. (before computers) generation, today’s students are courageous thinkers, innovators and fearless warriors.

The Teacher’s Role in the New World of Blurred Boundaries

The Value of Private Space

Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.

"Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."

So perhaps the answer is to prepare our students for a world that will require them to learn continuously, to find and solve problems, to act with empathy so as to bring hope and equity to many and strive to live a life full of a passionate pursuit of beauty and wonderment, to live and learn today as da Vinci might have done.

Assessment involves timely, detailed  feedback based around clearly defined learning outcomes.  Evaluation is “giving a grade”

the collation marks too often includes work which was done before students had mastered the material

pursuit of ‘marks’ often distracts students’ focus from the work at hand