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Sunday, February 10th, 2008There is so much spin on how innovative and transcending the new world is. How much is going to change for nearly everyone. I’m not so sure. For one, I’m not so sure how new any of this is… it seems to be that new technologies are layered onto universal ideas […]
The only way out is through
Sunday, February 10th, 2008I opened on Scott McLeod’s post about a technology facilitator named Pam who felt misused by the response she got from teachers and administrators to her presentation on web 2.0 tools. My thought is that the best use of a bad experience is self reflection. When people don’t respond the way we want them to.. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Open letter to a parent that asked…
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Public or private?
Dear Parent:
It’s not about whether the school is public or private. It’s about the individual school or district, the resources available to it, the quality of teachers and administrators, the philosophy of the school system and how committed the investment in that philosophy is. Some private schools are mom and pop stores with […]
toxic
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Miguel Guhlin writes about career suicide. He wonders if a person should act out of their integrity and move from a position even at the expense of their career.
Well…. How do you really know when is it time to leave a place? When is it better to take a stand and when is it […]
Blog Pride
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I’m really proud of my students… not all of them… but most of them are up and running with their blogs. I’m still struggling to get an organization that I can live with, and typepad is not my favorite tool for this. I’m thinking of migrating to Wordpress, because it does so […]
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