Reflections on Teaching

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The week was choke full of stuff and had a good start, but ended with me getting a nasty upper respiratory infection which I’m still nursing.
Fifth Grade
Work continued on election ads. I had a whole long list of ads to get through, but got to just the first three on this list (which were from [...]

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Who says that Doug Noon gets to have all the political fun these days! You don’t have to live in Alaska to have the confluence of third world banana republic politics intersecting with first world government accountability.
First, let’s start with Dan Meyer’s crush. She’s a maverick educator, who started out with no more than [...]

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I saw this recent Plurk about a Measles Outbreak, and my eyes rolled. This is one of those times when I have to shake my head and wonder, am I living in some developing country or third world nation? It’s embarrassing, and you don’t have to look to far to see what is causing [...]

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Lot of great projects underway. It feels like I’ve got a good start going:
Sixth Grade
They are doing a unit on Perseverance. To peak their interest, I showed two music videos, Chris Brown’s Forever, and Rihanna’s Take a Bow. I had students look at the narrative arc of the videos, the visual symbolism, and how [...]

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I will be interviewing my principal, Stephen Lewis, on It’s Elementary at the Ed Tech Talk network this coming Monday, September 22, at 4/6/7 p.m. P/C/EDT. The topic will be an administrator’s perspective on technology in a Title One elementary school. Please join us for the conversation by clicking on the link above.

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It’s come to my attention that there have been problems with the standard RSS feed for this site. I have recently upgraded to Feedburner for feeds from this blog. Please switchover any feeds for this blog to the following:
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for Posts, and
http://feeds.feedburner.com/edublogs/fytv
for Comments.

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I’ve been getting a few of what appear to be press releases/marketing spiels from the contact page and some comments of the same sort on this blog recently. In general, if I am not using your product, and what you say is only tangentially related to the topic at hand, I’m not going to post [...]

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