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Turn anything into a lesson, but will it stick?
A friend of mine has done something unusual with the celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday this year. She teaches young adolescents with moderate cognitive disabilities and behavior problems, and this year, she chose King’s 1964 Nobel Prize acceptance speech as the basis for a series of lessons in reading, language arts, civics, etc. […]
License glasses
Ju Honisch responded to the idea of Egypt’s copyrighting antiquities with a wonderful comment that reminds me of Andre Codrescu: I think soon somebody will invent license glasses. They will be a little like blinkers and will only allow you to see those things you have paid your share of license fees for. There will […]
Whose values would be valued in a neoliberal education world: Michelle Rhee’s or Marc Dean Millot’s?
Marc Dean Millot explains why he’s a critic of DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee (hat tip), and here’s the key paragraph: What I see in Chancellor Rhee’s approach, abetted, permitted or endorsed by Mayor Fenty, is 1) insensitivity and arrogance towards others, combined with 2) a reliance on fear to control staff, and 3) a considerable […]
E-book versions of “Schools as Imagined Communities”
You can buy Schools as Imagined Communities as a Kindle e-book or through eBooks.com, with royalties going to non-profit organizations.
Zotero – love at first byte
This tells you something about my semester: it’s taken until this weekend for me to try out Zotero, essentially an open-source citation database system. (I do wait until others on the bleeding edge show a new tool is useful, but I try to be in the second wave of adopters of useful tools.) It’s free, […]