Être Jeune Pour Toujours. De retour en Septembre.
#education
Algebra and gym are important. Critical thinking skills are the most important. Understanding that there is more than one point of view always. And that there is more to history and just the mainstream American History point of view.
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For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what’s known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.
The bell curve powerfully shapes how we think of human performance: If lots of students or employees happen to show up as extreme outliers — they’re either very good or very bad — we assume they must represent a skewed sample, because only a few people in a truly random sample are supposed to be outliers.
New research suggests, however, that rather than describe how humans perform, the bell curve may actually be constraining how people perform. Minus such constraints, a new paper argues, lots of people are actually outliers. -Shankar Vedantam
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed. They have no control over their bodies or their lives. They have no education and no freedom. They are raped, beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity. For most Western young women of today, being called a feminist is an insult.Isabel Allende (via lolixoxo)
This is the most well made movie about teaching that I’ve ever seen. I wish every person who has a role in education laws and budgets would be forced to watch it.
ABCYA.com
What a great website for all kids K-5th grade.
Here our kindergarteners are playing Alphabet Bingo where they have to match the letter sound with the letter.There are all sorts of games from typing to math to literacy, and fun games to create things like cars and pictures too.
Let me know which games you like!
Taylor Mali’s newest book, What Teachers Make, will be released on March 29. It is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and IndieBound.
I’m intrigued. It’s on the wish list.
Just finished reading it. Amazing and Inspiring !
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On Monday, the New York City Department of Education published its first set of guidelines for the use of social media, underscoring the importance for teachers and staff to keep a clear distinction between the use of their personal and professional accounts.
“In an increasingly digital world, we seek to provide our students with the opportunities that multi-media learning can provide—which is why we should allow and encourage the appropriate and accepted use of these powerful resources,” schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in an e-mail to principals, according to the Journal.
Mainly, teachers are expected to use common sense: inappropriate offline behavior would also be inappropriate online. However, teachers are being told that their interactions with students on professional social networking services will be monitored and that there is “no expectation of privacy,” and that administrators and officials should have access to the professional accounts.
» via ars technica
Nietzsche knew a thing or two about the filter bubble…
Lovely philosophy posters by Max Temkin embody in bold typography and astute insight what philosophy is.
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