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Anti-Creativity Checklist

by Mark January 29, 2012 instruction

My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo.

Somebody constructed this video explaining SOPA. It’s a great teaching tool for something few understand. It is also crafted in such a way that if SOPA were passed the distribution company of this movie would be able to pull down my site, and remove referenced to my entire site from all search engines. I would, [...]

Jay Mathews, Washington Post & Teachers and Lesson Plans

by Mark December 19, 2011 instruction

By Jay Mathews Maybe Bruce Friedrich raised the lesson plan issue because he was so out of sync with the recent college graduates who were the other Teach for America instructors at his Baltimore high school. … He thought it was odd that despite the forward-looking reputation of the Baltimore district and Teach for America, beginning teachers still had to construct their lessons from scratch, as teachers have done for centuries.

Revolution, Che Guevara and Occupy Wall Street/Everything

by Mark November 21, 2011 instruction

Che Guevara wrote about popular uprising and one of the main tenants is, one can’t win a battle against a major organized military force. One can create a climate of fear within the establishment which prompts violent and unwarranted backlash, and such force when seen by the general population is galvanizing for the great sea of populace [...]

Protests on Campus Turn Violent – We Need To Start Thinking

by Mark November 20, 2011 instruction

So the media lampooned the Tea Party, and nothing was done about them. Jokers in hats. Nobody in the group really stood for anything. Ignore them and they’ll go away, peter out, become irrelevant after their 15 minutes of attention. Then they came back in the mid-terms and kicked everybody’s ass, especially the Republicans who thought they [...]

Teacher Research and the Need for Experimentation to Drive Policy in Education