Links to SOS March videos: Save Our Schools Rally For Education July 30, 2011 http://bit.ly/n4kNvk [1] Save Our Schools: The March to the White House July, 30 2011 http://bit.ly/nCI1Ge [2] John Kuhn, Superintendent of Perrin-Whitt School District in Texas speaks at SOS March and National Call To Action on July 30, 2011 “I will march headlong into the… [Read more…]
July 2, 2011
There’s a blog post by Miguel Guhlin in which he says something like, “For the most part, with black and brown kids, the computer tells them what to do. Only white kids get to tell the computer what to do.” I’ve paraphrased those lines dozens of times since, and now I’m launching the idea as… [Read more…]
June 22, 2011
Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child as a Wordle Link to the public file – click on the small image
June 18, 2011
Many thanks to Elisa Gopin @edtechtoday in Israel, who has this posted on her website http://www.lifelong-learner.com/ and to the Twitter hashtag #digitalstorytelling which introduced us.
June 5, 2011
the brain of the day… Today as we were leaving clay class with Tom, he said, “I want all your work to come from the heart of darkness.” And I asked, “What about the liver of twilight?” I thought, but didn’t say at the time, the completer of the triad, “The brain of the day.”… [Read more…]
April 14, 2011
Rachel Maddow had a brilliant analysis of Obama’s budget speech on her show last night. She lauded the President for “committing math” in public, and made a great show with freeze frames of recreating his image for what the Republican tax cuts for the wealthy plan (erroneously referred to by the rest of the press… [Read more…]
March 20, 2011
Let's harness the teaching potential of the real world, and provide our students with the tools to do authentic writing which can change that world.
March 12, 2011
Yesterday, an old family friend who homeschools her two sons came to pick up my step-daughter and take her along on a vacation trip for the weekend. She mentioned how her older son has become an avid string gamer since I introduced him to Cat’s Cradle and other string games during a similar visit they… [Read more…]
February 9, 2011
Fascinated by the parallels between these observations by Michael Wesch from last March and the turmoil in Egypt, the razor’s edge of the communication changes and their potential impacts. I love the story that at some point during the internet shutdown, people in Tahrir Square strung dozens and dozens of extension cords to enable someone’s… [Read more…]
August 4, 2011
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