April 6, 2010

Seeing is Believing but Moving isn’t Proving

In the professional development I've offered teachers for the past 15 years, I've cited experts plenty. When something didn't make sense to a student or a teacher, or to me, the only response I had was to cite the person or the resource that had said it was thus and so. Now, however, if something about written language isn't immediately clear to me, I've learned to investigate it: the evidence is right there, waiting to be discovered! I've stopped taking resources at face value, and started interrogating them instead.
June 30, 2015

Mad Scientist

Scholars who take the Old English for Orthographers LEXinar take a critical look at what’s said about the historical origins of words. Many categorically false, totally […]