Nate Noorlander, from the Nomadic Professor, joined me for this week’s episode.  The Nomadic Professor is an online, non-partisan, high school history courses that teach students the core narrative and all of its accompanying skills: taking notes, making original judgments, reasoning with evidence, reading between the lines, following a rubric, writing a defensible argument, working with bias, and much, much more.

I love talking history, especially when we can go deeper and see the connections that can be found.  Nate didn’t disappoint!  He has lived a fascinating life and has been a bit nomadic himself!  Be sure to listen where he and his family got caught during COVID!  I’m surprised he got out!

NATE’S BIOGRAPHY

In college I double-majored in philosophy and history teaching, then moved to Beijing, China, to teach IGCSE and A Level history at the Cambridge International Curriculum Center of Beijing Normal University. I also spent time touring in India and trekking in Nepal.

Worn out by the Beijing air I moved back to Utah with my family and taught English and history at Mountainville Academy, and then the American International School of Utah. At AISU I developed mini-courses in boredom and awareness, based on Heidegger’s ideas about technology, and Nicholas Carr’s ideas about what the internet does to our brains.

Worn out this time by life in the beautiful mountain west I returned to Beijing, where I taught IB history, IB English, and Theory of Knowledge at the Yew Chung International School of Beijing. When Covid-19 hit I was coaching the boys basketball team and gearing up for our end-of-season tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The trip was canceled, my family just made it out of Beijing on a flight three times its usual cost, and I stuck it out in the shuttered city for another six weeks. When life didn’t change, I left too. Since then it’s been all history with the Nomadic Professor.

LINKS

The Nomadic Professor

FREE Lesson Download – Introduction to Rhetoric and Logic

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