Conventions & Conferences
Pictures and reflections on conferences, conventions, and events I’ve attended.
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I was looking forward to the New York Comic Con (NYCC) panel on National Gaming Day. And was disappointed when I missed it. I think even in the age of “blackening in the Bubble” and the determination of a “good teacher” is how well he or she teaches to the test, it is still easy
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Like talking to teenagers about sex, not enough conversation happens between elementary/middle school students and their adult counterparts (teachers and parents) about video games. If the questions are asked the responses are finite “Nos.” (I don’t think I need to tell you how well abstinence works as birth control.) At my local library kids stand
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Good friends tell each other the truth. They are honest with one another. But sometimes good friends allow each other to keep certain “rationalizations.” I tell my good friends I go to the annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) for the sake of my kids and to fulfill my professional obligations as an educator. My
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Maybe it was a just the times – Leonard Nimoy on In Search Of narrating the mysterious death of Howard Carter and asking: “Could it have been the mummy’s curse?” The curse was missing from the Discovery Expo’s King Tut exhibit. In its place facts about his family tree. The sheer size of the
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When I think “asylum,” I think of safety as in to “give asylum to.” Then I think of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson and its penetrating whites. And then I remember a documentary I saw as a film student at the University of Buffalo. Black & White (or just very subdued
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What would you do to change education if you ruled the world? That’s how Jon Snyder began the Bank Street Niemeyer Panel at the Times Center on 41st Street – March 1, 2010. The discussion: Race, Class, and Reform. The panelists: Irving Hamer Jr., Peter McFarlane, Michael Nettles, Jeannie Oakes, and David Sciarra. The mental
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Marita doesn’t need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. She doesn’t need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. She doesn’t need a higher IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan’s. All those things would be nice, of course. But they
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