Archive for January, 2008
politically correct
Monday, January 21st, 2008To honor MLK’s birthday, I’d like to take a little stab at political correctness.
It is my view that promoting politically correct speech is a bad idea. Political correctness catches as many dolphins as it does tuna in it’s all encompassing net. It is the stuff of alienation and power playing, not community building. It […]
How?
Saturday, January 19th, 2008In my experience, classes that are heterogeneously grouped (or, in the case of an advanced group, include unable students) create slower moving classes that disadvantage better students and brings down the level of education overall. I know this is true in the middle grades, where most of the literature […]
unplugged
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Here’s an admission: sometimes…. surfing the net and social networking makes me feel guilty. It makes me feel the same way I feel about watching TV … I feel so guilty that if the phone rings and I’m watching it, I turn the sound down.. not so I can hear you, but […]
worried, night time headache thingy
Saturday, January 19th, 2008I work in a district that has a very active parent body. Most of the time and with most parents, that’s a wonderful thing. But around grading time,it gets a little sticky… mainly because parents want good grades and every year one or two of them try to bully teachers into giving grades […]
midwife syndrome
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Quick! a child wants something. Stop everything and help. Hurry! A parent feels the need to think about their child out loud. Clear your schedule.
I’m about halfway through my profession, and I realize (somewhat suddenly) that the choice to be a giver is NOT the […]
Accidental Kismet
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I’m reading Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi right now. In the section I am reading, Csikszentmihalyi describes a young man by the name of Sam who has had an accidental experience that will define the rest, or at least a large portion, of his life. Up until the moment described, Sam has […]
rhetoric and debate or saving your bacon
Sunday, January 13th, 2008This is a great video to use to introduce a unit on rhetoric and debate. The author is a high school science teacher and he has a series of videos on global warming. I plan to view them all and definitely use this one to intro our debate unit
Blog Benefits
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Okay… so everyone always talks about how children really need us to teach them about social computing. No they don’t. They do all the social computing they could ever need. But, they do need us to show them uses they aren’t thinking about. That in mind, my question to myself is […]
Up(dated)
Saturday, January 5th, 2008I’m updating by blog after a hiatus. (thank you Damien for the prod; I needed it)
I haven’t been updating of late because all I do is work blogging with my students. I spend a lot of my nights getting their blog entries up. The deal with my tech director for unblocking typepad was that […]