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MATTHEW HAMMOND
Aspiring Social Studies Teacher,
former Antitrust Enforcer & Dad
The Northern Lights near Reykjavík, Iceland (Feb. 2023, MCHammond)
Magritte's Missives

Conscience
For my last currere blog post of the year, William Ayers' Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World: An Invitation gives me my...
Matthew Hammond
Dec 20, 20243 min read

Social Studies Rocks!
In this post, I expect to focus on the analytical and turn of the currere cycle even though as a preservice teacher, I lack a classroom...
Matthew Hammond
Dec 11, 20243 min read

Curriculum as Culture
I had really not considered curriculum to be something more than a roadmap for lessons in a class, but I find the different ways of...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 31, 20248 min read


A Currere State of Mind
As I dive further into my classes preparing to be a high school social studies teacher, this is the first of a series of blog posts using...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 30, 20248 min read

WoW (NCL)
The last chapter of A New Culture of Learning (NCL) focuses on World of WarCraft  (WoW), a massively multiplayer online game (or MMO),...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 19, 20243 min read

NYT's Flashback Quiz
My new favorite online quiz is the New York Time 's weekly history quiz— Flashback . One at a time, it presents 8 events in history that...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 12, 20241 min read

Digressions (NCL)
The themes in the next three chapters sent me on a few digressions as I pondered the absorption of tacit knowledge, the need to focus on...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 7, 20245 min read

Learning from the Collective (NCL)
First, I'll get this out of my system since it is the first thing I think of whenever I hear the word "collective." We are the Borg. You...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 1, 20243 min read


Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (NCL)
Chapters 2 and 3 of A New Culture of Learning (NCL ) immediately evoke David Bowie's Changes : Another post related to A New Culture of...
Matthew Hammond
Sep 21, 20242 min read


A New Culture of Learning (NCL)
I am reading Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown's A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change...
Matthew Hammond
Aug 31, 20246 min read
It's a start . . .
Previously, I was on Blogger, but posted on rare occasions. As I transition from federal antitrust enforcer to high school social studies...
Matthew Hammond
Aug 31, 20241 min read
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