A Learner's Experiment in Social Conformity. Currently, we are studying 'Stargirl' by Jerry Spinelli and exploring the ideas of tolerance, individuality, prejudice, and conformity.
The driving question behind this unit is, "Do you Dare to be Yourself? " with the sub-question, "Do you Dare to Let Others be Themselves? ". One of the assessments is an independent research project exploring the themes mentioned above, but of a topic and with a research question of each learner's own choosing. One of my learners has been exploring the idea of conformity and has been researching the Stanford Prison Experiment , the Milgram Experiment and the Asch Experiment . He had already written the draft of his report but we'd spent some time discussing his desire to conduct an experiment of his own along the lines of the Asch Experiment. Today, as our lesson began, he informed me of his plans. First, I created a short Google Presentation 'test'.
The three questions were shown successively, in the same order outlined above. 20 Cents. Investing in imagination.
Supermarket trolleys pose the annoying dilemma of having in your possession, the correct coin to release one. Here in Singapore, you require one dollar, elsewhere it could be a pound coin or a fifty cents. Bullied 11-Year-Old Son Of Lesbian Moms Has Inspiring Message For Local School Board. This bullied 11-year-old has a powerful message for his school board: "You have the power to make the changes.
" In recently promoted footage from 2011's "The Bully Project," Caine Smith, the son of two lesbian moms, says people pick on him because "they think I'm different... They want me to change who I am. But I can't change who I am. " Soft-spoken with long, brown hair, Caine says he hopes his attempt to confront the school board will "encourage other kids to do the same, to speak out and rise up and help each other out to get rid of bullying. " "Not a day goes by where I am not pushed, punched or called a fag," he tells Texas' Birdville Independent School District (BISD) board members in the clip. A good day for Caine is a one when "people [leave] their hands off of me," he says in the footage from the "Bully" movie vaults.
He explains that he's repeatedly threatened and abused by bullies who choke and punch him and call him names. (h/t Upworthy) "A wonderful contribution to the field of global collaborative projects" I am currently working on the culmination of my Flat Classroom Teacher Certification course, which is a collaborative Global Project Design.
I have worked with a colleague from Wisconsin, USA to modify and develop my 'Dare to be Yourself' unit, designed for my Year 8 and 9 learners this term. Originally written to address the problem of intolerance and lack of kindness, the 'Dare to be Yourself' unit, using the novel Stargirl, has been utilised to become a Global Project that can be delivered across the world and allow learners to connect and observe the similarities that exist in our world, with the hope of building individual, social and global conscience.
In preparation, the following feedback has been received from one of the course facilitators:- "AMAZING!!!! Seriously, this is one of the most thoroughly and thoughtfully planned out projects I have seen. To receive feedback like this from a respected global educator with extensive experience in this field is so heart-warming. Creating Characters Using Receipts. We are lucky enough to have published author, Sarah Froggatt, as a parent of one of our learners.
She came and shared her knowledge during Book Week and, this week, I invited her back to teach learners about characterisation. Sarah covered the basics and the essentials using lots of great examples from print and film, such as Roald Dahl's, The Hitchhiker , everyone's favourite detective, Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and even Pixar's The Incredibles. Once learners had learned about and discussed characterisation, I introduced the receipts! Having collected receipts from staff over the past month, I have a exciting selection of varied and wonderful clues about potential characters. The idea came while reading our current novel-study Stargirl , whose protagonist has a penchant for following people in malls and coming up with stories about them. "A wonderful contribution to the field of global collaborative projects"
I am currently working on the culmination of my Flat Classroom Teacher Certification course, which is a collaborative Global Project Design.
I have worked with a colleague from Wisconsin, USA to modify and develop my ' Dare to be Yourself ' unit, designed for my Year 8 and 9 learners this term. Originally written to address the problem of intolerance and lack of kindness, the 'Dare to be Yourself' unit, using the novel Stargirl , has been utilised to become a Global Project that can be delivered across the world and allow learners to connect and observe the similarities that exist in our world, with the hope of building individual, social and global conscience. In preparation, the following feedback has been received from one of the course facilitators:- "AMAZING!!!! Seriously, this is one of the most thoroughly and thoughtfully planned out projects I have seen.
To receive feedback like this from a respected global educator with extensive experience in this field is so heart-warming. Creating Characters Using Receipts. Building Believable Characters. Education.ed.pacificu.edu/sweb/jonathan/nounslesson.pdf. Writingframeworks - Lesson Ideas for Sentence Fluency. Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex. Experienced writers use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting and lively. Too many simple sentences, for example, will sound choppy and immature while too many long sentences will be difficult to read and hard to understand.
This page contains definitions of simple, compound, and complex sentences with many simple examples. The purpose of these examples is to help the ESL/EFL learner to identify sentence basics including identification of sentences in the short quizzes that follow. After that, it will be possible to analyze more complex sentence varieties. A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.
The three examples above are all simple sentences. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. The above three sentences are compound sentences. Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day". Stargirl by pie candy on Prezi. 'Stargirl Imagery. Project-Based Learning Idea: Students Create Their Own Viral Video. I am continuously inspired by the increasing number of shared video content which let’s face it, in this digital age, we can’t really avoid. The sharing and re-sharing of videos via email and through Facebook and Twitter have undoubtedly given rise to the phenomenon of these ‘viral’ videos. It goes without saying that shared video content is more popular than ever before, with more than 48 hours worth of video being uploaded to YouTube every single minute. Given that YouTube is the most popular video sharing website on the web, and only six years old, there is huge potential for virtually any video content to go viral.
What Is A Viral Video? A viral video is quite simply a video that becomes popular through internet sharing. For businesses it has become a widely used marketing tool; viral marketing dates back to the mid-1990s when marketers wanted to create slogans or taglines that would be spread through word-of-mouth. So what does it take for a video to go viral? Interesting Tidbits.