Archive for the ‘ Teachers ’ Category

Save the Planet or It’s Into the Compost Bin With You!

Yes, anyone who fears a dead-planet future has strong feelings about the humans who actively contribute to global warming at an alarming hourly rate. But I don’t think those incomprehensibly asinine poopheads deserve instantaneous annihilation. [ READ MORE ]

Kids Understand Sarcasm. Great.

According to this study, kids can get the drift of sarcasm from the age of four. Apparently, this goes for all kids, even the ones who weren’t born into my house. My daughter was onto me and my sarcasm bent when she was three. [ READ MORE ]

Equality In the Public School System (Or the Lack Thereof)

Two great reads from the Oxford University Press (if you’re an education nerd like me): Five Miles Away, A World Apart[link and italics] by James E. Ryan, and In Brown’s Wake[link, italics] by Martha Minow. [ READ MORE ]

Intense and Intents and Intensive Purposes (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure as I am on vacation. Kids who grow up with no television in their homes either (a) make friends quick with a kid whose family worships the ‘mote, or (b) they read a lot. My utter lack of pop culture references from the mid-seventies through [ READ MORE ]

Academic Freedom (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure while I’m on vacation. The notion most of us have when thinking about the University (read that with a deep and important voice, please) is of a well-architectured limbo-land full of higher thought, in-depth learning, and forward motion steeped nicely in tradition. The University isn’t [ READ MORE ]

Problem Solving 101

Being ill-equipped for the solving of the problems turns out to be somewhat of an issue in the real world[ READ MORE ]

Maybe It’s Better Not to Know What Kids Think

It’s cringe-y and funny and it just upset me and made me laugh until I snurfed green tea out my nose. I think you should read it too. Chag Holland is Cynical Dad and he is capable of making your day better. I help out in my daughter’s class. I used to just do simple [ READ MORE ]

One Must Always Be Learning

We know that you can’t be who you really are in someone else’s language[ READ MORE ]

Star Trek: Teaching Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics

And I find it hard to believe that any other series has inspired for-credit college courses in cultural anthropology and linguistics, including: “Xenolinguistics: The Anthropology of Alien Language.” [ READ MORE ]

Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able

Watch it. It takes about 15 minutes; that’s less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. And no way one cup of caffeine will blow your mind like Michael Wesch can[ READ MORE ]