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Seven Myths of Education 18 Jul 2013 | 09:36 am
Christodoulou's seven myths: 1 – Facts prevent understanding, 2 – Teacher-led instruction is passive, 3 – The 21st century fundamentally changes everything, 4 – You can always just look it up, 5 – We ...
It Takes More Than Love to Homeschool 17 Jul 2013 | 04:27 am
Joanne Jacobs quotes Paula Bolyard in How Badly Can we Mess up Kindergarten: “Parents, who love and understand their children better than anyone else in the world, are well-qualified to educate their...
Why I'm going slow with tech in the classroom. 15 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
I'm having trouble with tech in the classroom. It's similar to the complaint expressed a few days ago on DogHouse Diaries about the vast array of digital storage options and the call for simplificatio...
The trouble with False positives. 14 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
From Slahdot: "In many ways finding the small amount of terrorists within the United States is like screening a population of people for a rare disease. A physician explains why collecting excessive d...
Question about questions, SBAC edition. Graphs. 12 Jul 2013 | 07:04 am
So, the SBAC is releasing questions so that we teachers can't complain that they've done all this work behind our backs. At least, they hope we don't. But I digress. I got a list of some released qu...
Workfare is Detention for Adults. 11 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
And just as effective at getting the building cleaned. This little meme has been going around and it's obvious to me that no one is really thinking ... really using those critical thinking skills tha...
Please read a "Letter to the Idiot Nation" 6 Jul 2013 | 09:36 pm
From StoneKettle Station: A Letter to the Idiot Nation, in which he responds to the "Jeff Foxworthy" forwarded email/facebook bs. You know the one: "If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abi...
Surviving The Harry Potter Classroom 5 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
It's summer, the time when teachers start to second-guess themselves and their teaching. They read articles and research teaching methods. Let's try CoolMath's Cooperative Learning Article which start...
Happy Anniversary to me. 30 Jun 2013 | 04:35 am
I'll be damned. I've been doing this for just over five years. "Hello, World," indeed.
Innovative to the Point of Stupid. 28 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
Not completely obvious, though. Innovation is a good thing. It is a constant desire for improvement and change, but it must be tempered with reality. You cannot change for change's sake and you absol...
