Quote of the day - Gandhi
Sunday, July 20th, 2008You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008OK, I'm finally blogging about this article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, by Marc Prensky. Get it here from the author. It's been around since 2001, and has been talked about and referred to at almost every Educational Technology conference I've been to since that time. The terms "digital natives" and "digital ...
Traffic magazine - We’re famous!
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Well, my family's famous! Some of you might be familiar with Traffic magazine. It's a magazine that is circulated free of charge in our community (Reedley & Kingsburg, CA). It features local people, businesses, and issues. This month, my family was interviewed about the issue of adoption. Our picture, we think, ...
CST testing emotions
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008So, it has finally come. My students are taking the California Standards Test (CST's) today. Lots of emotions on this day, on the part of many stakeholders. Fear and anxiety – on the part of students. "Will I do well? Have I learned enough? Will I please my teacher/school/parents? Can I ...
Long time, no blog! - New purpose
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008As I think about how long it's been since my last post, I feel depressed. This has been a tough year, or at least a very, very busy year: We adopted another baby, which involved a month-long trip to Chicago, which is where he was born. We're trying to move from our ...
How do we remember things?
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Just ran across this in some of my notes from a while back... We remember 10% of what we read. We remember 20% of what we hear. We remember 30% of what we see. We remember 50% of what we hear and see. We remember 70% of what we say. We remember 90% of what we ...
Pi Day fun!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007This last week was "Pi Week" at my school. We made a big deal of this, for several reasons, one of which was that we teach geometry, including the circumference and area of a circle, which is where the marvelous number pi shows up! On Wednesday, Pi day, we had an Albert ...
“Scat” at Scicon :)
Saturday, March 17th, 2007Earlier this school year, I was able to take my 6th graders to Scicon, an outdoor school near Springville. It was a marvelous experience! One of the favorite parts of the year for both students and teachers. The other two teachers and I had a few minutes' break one day, and ...
Creativity
Monday, February 26th, 2007I was listening to an address titled "Do schools kill creativity?" by Ken Robinson, in Monterey, CA, 2006 The following quote really made me think about how prepared I am to be wrong, about how much I risk, and how aggressively I try to come up with original ideas. "If you're not ...
Mneumonic for the Quadratic Equation
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Here's a quick mneumonic a friend of mine shared with me. For those of you that teach the quadratic equation, this will help your students to memorize it. I found it rather amusing... There was a negative boy who couldn’t decide whether or not to go to a radical party. The boy ...
