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Paul Salomon

Life is not about discovering yourself. It's about creating yourself.
Paul Salomon has written 5 posts for Cooperative Catalyst

Facebooking with students

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via Lost In Recursion I know it makes a lot of teachers nervous/sick-to-the-stomach, but I absolutely LOVE communicating with students through Facebook.  Yes, I Facebook with students.  In fact, I accept every request they send my way, because it is an incredible way to take seriously what I believe about relationships and learning. I bring … Continue reading »

Don’t be Times Square. Be the Flatiron Building.

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via Lost In Recursion A surreal teaching video recently put into focus just how artificial class can be, and in particular how inauthentically the role of teacher is often played.  I want my students to see me as human, deserving of their respect.  I don’t want my authority in the classroom to arise from the power of … Continue reading »

The perfect marriage/school

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via Lost In Recursion I’ve been married a little over two years, so surely there are more experienced spouses in the world, but as I made the bed this morning, I had a nice little thought.  My marriage works, but probably not for everyone.  Shows you how nuts I am, but this somehow got me … Continue reading »

Letting students be dead wrong

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via Lost In Recursion My wife works at Penguin Group, where naturally they have an incredible “take pile” of books they publish. That’s where I found Number: The Language of Science, a fascinating and completely accessible history of the human traditions that give us today’s number systems. Apart from the amazing stuff about numbers, my favorite … Continue reading »

Let’s make school Facebook worthy

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via Lost In Recursion. Last year my favorite course was my hardest to teach. I felt very strongly about the material, thinking almost constantly about it and how we could spend our time experiencing it. And yet, most days I felt class was stale and that the students felt and thought little during the experience. … Continue reading »

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