2010 March

Entries from March 28th, 2010

Articulating our learning

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Web 2.0

The last two weeks I’ve worked with about 18 sophomore pre-AP classes who are in the midst of research papers on electronic privacy and intellectual freedom. After conversations with the teachers, I developed a lesson to involve the students in website evaluation–because particularly with this topic, I knew they’d be running across many points of [...]

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Philosophy and pickles: telling our stories

March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0

As I was writing this blog post, pondering advocacy programs for libraries, I was called away by a student query. His information need? “There’s a pickle in the scanner.” After registering my disbelief, I discovered that yes, indeed, there was a dill pickle squashed inside of our flatbed scanner, with a little ketchup on it [...]

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Share your stories

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0

How do we help others visualize the things that make learning and schools successful? Anytime we seek to make an idea “stick” stories and visuals are helpful. At the ASCD conference, Sam Chaltain, the director of the Forum for Education and Democracy shared a project called Rethink Learning Now. On the site, we are asked to [...]

Be the change

March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0

It seems that all I’ve been writing about lately are advocacy issues. I rarely do this in this space. But as an educator and Texan, I am incensed by the recent hijacking of our state education standards. It is more than time for a change. The Texas State Board of Education voted on a finalized [...]

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Followup on National Writing Project

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0

A day ago I emailed AskArne my concerns regarding cuts to the National Writing Project and Improving Libraries grants. This morning I received this response:

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Help save the National Writing Project

March 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0

Unbelievably, the National Writing Project is once again on the docket to be eliminated from the federal Education budget. It’s ironic that with Obama’s declaration of the importance of literacy that this program would be eliminated, since it does so much to support the development of excellent teaching. As with the Improving Libraries grant, the [...]