March 2012
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Catholic school fires gay teacher planning wedding →
A popular music teacher at St. Ann Catholic School in north St. Louis County recently was fired after church officials learned that he planned to marry his male partner of 20 years in New York, one of a handful of states where same-sex marriage is legal.
The teacher, Al Fischer, confirmed to the Post-Dispatch that he was fired Feb. 17 from his job of four years at the school. When asked to...
February 2012
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“We are very saddened by the loss of our son and others in our Chardon...”
– Chardon High School Shooting: Third Student Dies In Ohio
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newjerseykeepmybones asked: Can you recommend a good Praxis book publisher? I need one for English, but I really just a general idea of what to look for.
pooptaco asked: If you had $10,000 to spend on technology for your classroom, how would you spend it and why? I'm doing a course right now (IT in the Classroom) that asks this very question. I've been asking different educators their opinion and thought I'd ask your's. BTW I love your Tumblr! It has given me tons of inspiration to use once I'm done with my maternity leave (I live in...
umihime asked: in your last post i noticed that the science room looks a lot like the 9th grade science lad in Port Townsend, is that true?
jbizzle329 asked: Did you see that the Zombies Run app comes out this week? I think it's only for iPhone, so if you get it, maybe you can let me know how awesome it is?
meghandoesschool asked: Have you ever worked with Skeleton Creek? I am having some trouble wrapping my head around teaching it. Its a multi modal text.
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Google-Trained Minds Can't Deal with Terrible... →
visualturn:
infoneer-pulse:
College and university librarians are concerned about students’ search skills, and no wonder:
At Illinois Wesleyan University, “The majority of students — of all levels — exhibited significant difficulties that ranged across nearly every aspect of the search process,” according to researchers there. They tended to overuse Google and misuse scholarly databases....
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The number of penguins with red toenails.
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I miss:
You.
Your smile.
Your face.
The way you crinkle your nose.
Your randomly placed winks.
Your water bottle.
Your scattered mess of bobbie pins.
Your wavy Jesus hair.
The Clam Day song.
The southern drawl you slip into when you tell a story about a southerner you talked about.
When you say you need to take out your eyes.
The endorphin rush you get after a run.
You closing the...
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“Serendipity provided the breakthrough he needed. Reviewing the test of...”
– Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques
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Study Finds More Young Kids Can Work a Smartphone...
mobiletechlearning:
A new study also found that 2-to-5-year-olds are also more likely to be able to open a Web browser than swim on their own. Mobilized thinks it is time to make cellphones waterproof so these kids can text for help if they ever fall out of a boat. Via allthingsd.com
This line is going into my next presentation.
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The 28 most tried and true writing prompts
writingprompts:
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“Speaking about the lawsuit, Founding Partner of Murphy P.A, William Murphy Jr....”
– Facebook Faces A Nationwide Class Action Suit (via thenextweb)
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50 Alternatives to the Book Report →
theteachersdesk:
Character Astrology Signs
Heroes and Superheros
Create a Childhood for a character
Critique from the point of view of a specific organization
Social workers report
College application
School counselor’s recommendation letter
Talk show invitation
Radio exchange
Movie recommendations
Create a home page
Chat room conversations
E-mail directory
Title acrostic
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Library budgets continue to shrink relative to... →
infoneer-pulse:
The percentage of university funds allocated to academic libraries shrank for the 14th straight year in 2009, dipping below 2 percent for the first time, according to updated figures from the Association of Research Libraries.
The latest decline, culled from Education Department data for 40 institutions, is part of a decades-long trend that has seen libraries get gradually...
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This is on my mind tonight:
ohmuffins:
I believe in education.
I believe in teachers.
I believe in teachers who are passionate and loving.
I believe in teachers who do their best every day.
I believe in a staff that supports their teachers.
I believe in a community that supports their teachers.
I believe in parents who support their children and teachers.
I do NOT believe in individuals who try and stand in the way...
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Five Reasons I don't Assign Homework →
A short, but provocative article. This one may be the most incendiary thing on the list:
3 — Homework impinges upon a student’s time with family and on other, more valuable, activities — like play. As Alfie Kohn states in The Homework Myth, why should children be asked to work a second shift? It’s unconscionable to send children to work for nearly eight hours a day, ...
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Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students... →
Redish has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1970. When he started, he lectured because that’s the way he had been taught. But after a few years in the classroom, Redish was meeting with one of his mentors, a famous physicist named Lewis Elton who had begun doing research on education.
“He asked me, ‘How’s your teaching?’”
Redish told him it was going well, but that he...
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Lesson Ideas...?
iteachilearn:
So.. I am now working on teaching my students how to divide decimals by whole numbers. And to be quite frank their long division skills are AWFUL. I assessed them today, only to find very few students showing that they are proficient in the skill. Any suggestions? I have used T-P-S, writing the steps, mnemonic devices, small groups, and modeling. Please help?!
Signal boost.
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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal...
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How to Set Up a Classroom Blog: 10 Essential Steps →
There’s some outstanding advice in here, but this is one of the most important steps:
2) Understand why and how you’ll use it in your class. This may sound obvious, but poor lesson planning will result in problems including misbehavior, technological breakdowns, and angry administrators and parents. My advice for beginners is to look at blogging as 10% of your syllabus – use a blended...
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“Five wealthy people, led by Dallas industrialist Harold Simmons and Las Vegas...”
– Five people. FIVE PEOPLE are controlling 25% of the national conversation.
We need campaign finance reform, and we need it now.
25% of super PAC money coming from just 5 rich donors
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iPad Screencasting: Educreations and Explain... →
Sharing because there’s a reasonable review of Explain Everything, one of my new favorite iPad screencasting apps.
Explain Everything is another iPad-friendly screencasting app with even more capabilities. While Explain Everything costs $2.99 in the iTunes app store, the features of this application make it worth the price. In addition to the basic editing features that Educreations...
