While trying to understand Barbara Carrasco’s recent fever dream word salad OPED: “Decisions And Dangers Lurk For Covid Generation Of Children” (Aug 6) I was struck by the randomness of her accusations, which read like Q-Anon conspiracy thread had mated with the One America News Network and had Tucker Carlson’s love child. I THINK I […]Read More
What do these 100 things all have in common? Critical Race Theory Black Lives Matters ANTIFA Rock Music Sharia Law Violent Video Games Transgender People Gay Marriage 1619 Project Benghazi Covid Vaccines Nationalism Culturalism AIDS Welfare babies Pizza Gate United Nations Area 51 Barack Obama Ukraine Jews Death Panels Health Care for All Food Stamps […]Read More
A few years back, graphing calculators were introduced almost universally to math classes across the US in secondary grades. “Well, teachers, said back then to their students, “Don’t get too attached, You won’t have a calculator with you everywhere you go.” Lo and behold, now, with smartphones ubiquitous, everyone pretty much has a calculator with […]Read More
A big trend in high school public education is the “Dual Credit” course. This type of course provides students a parallel avenue to take college courses while at the same time getting high school credit. For instance, a student might take a “Dual Credit” Chemistry course where the course is taught both at a Community […]Read More
My friend Kevin Honeycutt used to tell a story of a professor of American Literature who was droning on about a particular short story in his class and became increasingly frustrated with a student in the back row who was paying more attention to his laptop than to his lecture. Finally, attempting to get the […]Read More
I am a big fan of the podcast “Pessimist Archive (PA).” If you have never heard of it, the PA documents with humor the sadly regular, negative reaction that society, usually western society, has to things that we now take for granted. Episodes include how people reacted when margarine was first introduced, how elevators scared […]Read More
A recent tweet went out where a parent mentioned that her daughter was only able to complete her homework after she had been able to use a home printer, a laptop, home internet service, a large pair of scissors, glue sticks, white and colored paper as well as some other materials. The parent wanted to […]Read More
What if teacher evaluations were written as Movie Reviews? Here is my ode to Roger Ebert, Education Evaluator… Corina Tipton – High School Biology 2019 ★★★ ½ Ninth Grade – Release Date: 6-5-2019 I once had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Corina Tipton at NSTA several years before she became the Worchester High School […]Read More
Over the years, I have had my fair share of conversations with teachers and administrators that don’t want to incorporate technology into their lessons. They typically have excuses for ignoring edtech ranging from not having “enough time” to “it is a fad” to “the kids know more than I do.” Pretty much every excuse is […]Read More
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