Fall in Love with Blended Learning, Like I Did in 1975

I am a product of Public Television. As a child, my hours of daytime television were limited to the line-up on local Channel 13. Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood taught me how to interact with others and “play nice.” Sesame Street introduced counting, the alphabet, and how to identify commonality among objects. (“One of these things is not like the other…”) The Electric Company opened up the world of multiplication tables and grammar. Whenever I think of the silent letter E, I recall that words are indeed more powerful than a locomotive.

On Saturday mornings I was fixated not on the cartoons depicting superheroes and talking animals but on the enchanting series Schoolhouse Rock! Those wonderful five-minute videos (we would call them "short-form documentaries" today!) explained the U.S. Constitution, the line-up of the planets in the solar system, and the difference between verbs and adjectives.

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