thinking about education
The American Anthropological Association has a new website entitled, Race – Are We So Different? Interesting way of looking at the way race is constructed historically and personally. The underlying argument seems to be that race is more about how we look than how we act. Here’s a paragraph from [...]
Professor uses Spider-Man to teach physics
It just makes sense…combine comic books and physics! I am just starting to learn more about “graphic novels” and have read The Tarot Cafe by Sang-Sun Park along with two pieces from Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue trilogy.
tags technorati : comics, manga
My colleague, Donna, asked, “What would you show educators as an example of what 21st century learning looks like?”
I would start with my upcoming trip to Texas. I’m giving a paper at SITE, any my husband and I are going early and poking along the gulf coast looking for lighthouses and whooping cranes. [...]
France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence
From InfoWorld, an article describing the French government’s attempt to reign in citizen journalists by making it an offense for anyone to film and distribute acts of violence unless they are sanctioned journalists. So, they are trying to unblur the very blurry lines between bloggers and journalists. [...]
Reading, like a brick, forms strong foundation – USATODAY.com
I’m posting this because it relates to some research I’ve been reading that says that teachers are either ignored in the media or only presented in negative ways. I was reminded of that as I read this really nice feature about a 50-something teacher who makes [...]
During the summer of 1998, my husband and I drove across the United State in our Tioga Arrow motor home, following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. Besides using the web to do a lot of our planning, we used technology to record the trip, too. We took a Macintosh PowerBook and a [...]