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The Evil Spawn doesn’t have a phone. She has two parents who work, eat, and sleep technology but she doesn’t have a phone. Why? One, she doesn’t have a job. So how would she pay for it? Two, she is twelve going on thirteen going on forty, but up to this point her parents (mainly mom… and mom is always right) don’t think she is emotionally ready for a phone. Sure, she would know the technology portion forwards and backwards, but we weren’t sure if she was ready with the emotional responsibility that comes with putting a computer in her pocket. There are mean people everywhere, but owning a phone just gives them more access to our kid.
It’s a big world out there and we weren’t sure if she was ready to carry it around in her back pocket. Lastly, our daughter goes from home to school. I’m not one of the parents who believe my child will always be safe and never in danger just because she has a phone. Do phones help with safety? In 2014, cell phones (and all technology) is wonderful. My money. 1. ScienceFix - Science Fix. Integrating Tech. Learning Is Messy – Blog | :Roll up your sleeves and get messy. “Reading” Sebastien Wiertz Close reading is one of the “strategies du jour”. From the Common Core State Standards in ELA: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. In addition from the Harvard Writing Center: The second step is interpreting your observations. In pretty much all trainings and presentations I deliver about STEM learning, I stress how STEM is language intense.
STEM learning is somewhat its own enemy because often the activity or experience involved is so interesting, intriguing or engaging (or all 3) that the students get excited and talk about it excitedly (and often parents voice how excited their child was when they came home) and teachers assume everything (or enough) important was learned. This is a powerful learning opportunity missed. “The second step is interpreting your observations. Learning is messy! Needleworks Pictures.com. Blogs That Promote Unconventional Discussion. We were thrilled to see The Teaching Palette as a featured blog in the May/June issue of SchoolArts Magazine! If you missed the article, “Building Your Personal Learning Network, Part 2,” by Craig Roland, you can read it here.
Like an artist that visits a museum for inspiration, we visit blogs to challenge our teaching and thought process. Put simply, a blog is like a living website; it continually digests and shares information. Considering our forum, we thought it might be appropriate to add to the SchoolArts list of blog resources: There are some amazing art classroom blogs certainly worth exploring out there, so please list yours or any you follow in the comments area below! Art Education Resource blogs: Art Inspiring Blogs: Esty – that place where artists sell their stuff has a “Handmade Blog” too.
General Education blogs: (because we are all in this education thing together) Teach For America teacher blogs are on Teach For Us. Kathy Cassidy -- Blogmeister. This spring, our class has been working with other classes around the world--sharing and learning together. Several collaborative projects have resulted. The book below is one of the products from that collaboration and contains pages created by various PreK - 2 classrooms from around the world as part of the Flat Classroom Project. Each of the participating classes focused on "A View From the Window" of their school in a different way.
Our page (containing photos and text created by the students) is first, but it is fascinating to see what all of the other classes have created as well. Click on the image to see the finished product. Teaching Blog Addict. 4Teachers : Main Page. Tales from the School Bus.