10 things the ALIENS do NOT want YOU to KNOW!
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Written by Tracy J. Crockett
January 18, 2006
When I say "Aliens" know that I am referring to all of the humans who are cooperating with them as well.
10 things the ALIENS do NOT want YOU to KNOW!
1-The Aliens have spread out a darkening agent, over Earth's
populated cities(through the means of "jet" contrails)which
What do you think about NCTE's role for the Talkie community? Should it revive NCTE-Talk?
Submitted by eric on 24 February, 2006 - 21:23- Login to post comments
News Flash! Parents and Teachers have different views on education!
Submitted by eric on 12 February, 2006 - 12:00In a way, this strikes me as being similar to the bimonthly literacy crises the media reports: Not really a crisis, not really new, but cast in crisis clothing to inject newsworthiness artificially into the subject.
Parents, teachers have educational divide
Poll shows disagreements on vast range of topics
Still, it is an interesting, if unsurprising situation. What makes it worth reporting is not the fact that parents and teachers disagree, because I suspect the same applies to all professions in their relations with the laity (there's that great George Bernard Shaw quote, "All professions are conspiracies against the laity."). Same goes for doctors and patients, lawyers and clients, plumbers and home owners up to their knees in unwelcome water. And I suspect it has been true in education since it become professionalized.
ETS tests technology literacy
Submitted by eric on 4 February, 2006 - 16:45Certainly technological literacy is important. And I imagine most of us know when a student "gets" it and roughly to what extent. Whenever we introduce techstuff into our classes, how well students grasp the role of the tools in the pursuit of the subject is evident.
Still...
Exam measures students' 'information literacy'
Friday, February 3, 2006; Posted: 9:38 a.m. EST (14:38 GMT)
(AP) -- When it comes to downloading music and instant messaging, today's students are plenty tech-savvy. But that doesn't mean they know how to make good use of the endless stream of information that computers put at their fingertips.
Another literacy crisis again
Submitted by eric on 21 January, 2006 - 16:58Another "literacy crisis" story. I wonder why reporters, ostensibly inquisitive by nature, never think to ask the question of literacy crisis purveyors: If we're so woefully underprepared to survive in an info-rich world, how is it we keep surviving in an info-rich world? Each generation of students, horribly illiterate though they are, keep finding and succeeding at jobs in the modern work place. They get out of school unable to this or that or the other, but somehow they manage to do this, that, the other, and some new stuff besides.
Weird, huh?
Gardening & Teaching :)
Submitted by frstbrn24 on 21 January, 2006 - 13:18We can think of ourselves not as teachers but as gardeners. A gardener does not 'grow' flowers; he tries to give them what he thinks they need and they grow by themselves. (John Holt)
Every day is a new experience... for both them and for me. I tried to post a picture of our experiences with our SMARTBOARD yesterday, but was unable to do so here... so here is the link to our SMARTBOARD webpage... the pictures will be up on Monday, Tuesday the latest
SMARTBOARDS IN THE CLASSROOM
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McCarthyism Rebounds
Submitted by eric on 19 January, 2006 - 08:11So McCarthyism only had to endure half a century of ignominity before experiencing a big comeback. Not bad. Any ideas how we can escort it back to its place in the graveyard of bad ideas?
UCLA alumni group targets 'radical' professors
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views at the University of California, Los Angeles.
One of the professors calls it McCarthyism.
Students prefer online courses
Submitted by eric on 16 January, 2006 - 14:00Aha! Online education is moving from the margins to the mainstream. Interversity, of course, started with the idea that learning online was, in many ways, as productive as learning in traditional situations.
Vindication! :-)
Students prefer online courses
Classes popular with on-campus students
Friday, January 13, 2006; Posted: 3:18 p.m. EST (20:18 GMT)(AP) -- Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, so commuting to class isn't the problem. But he doesn't like lectures much, isn't a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles.
Teacher pay tied to performance: a merit system without merit?
Submitted by eric on 13 January, 2006 - 11:57Teacher reaction mixed, they say. I'll bet it is! What do you all think?
Houston to tie teachers' pay to test scores
Friday, January 13, 2006; Posted: 9:36 a.m. EST (14:36 GMT)
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Houston became the largest school district in the country on Thursday to adopt a merit pay plan for teachers that focuses on students' tests scores.
By a 9-0 vote, the Houston school board approved a plan that offers teachers as much as $3,000 in extra pay if their students improve on state and national tests. The program could be expanded to provide as much as $10,000 in merit pay for teachers.
Egads!!! Wish they could all be "Good" Days!
Submitted by frstbrn24 on 10 January, 2006 - 16:50I think that the main thing that kept me from posting often last year was the fact that I always want to post the positive... not only to focus on the positive, but almost like glossing over the stressful parts of this job ~ wish not only that I could continue to do that, but that every teacher could!
Today had some stressful moments... from first thing in the morning with one of my favorite students coming in "hacking" all over everyone, then throwing a hissy fit because a couple of students started wiping down their things with Clorox wipes in response to it... ending up with the same kid in a mood writing an essay...
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