K2Twelve
Posts on education that were on my now defunct education blog K2Twelve.
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A friend sent me the video above after my post on Tom Bronson’s presentation. Then I found this video…
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Among the more interesting workshop topics at this year’s National Middle School Association conference was text messaging as an educational tool. The workshop was called: If You Can’t Beat ’em… Staying true to the title of his workshop, presenter Tom Bronson asserted that currently banned or discouraged student behavior of sending text messages during class
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I hated school as a teenager and maybe even before that. The institutionalization of my intellect. The fascist policing of my imagination. The “marginalization” of my individuality. The co-opting of my identity. I cringe when I read writers like Victor Davis Hanson denounce public education. In his article, “Back to School Blues,” he condemns the
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Inspired by the great experience we had at the Cai Guo exhibit at the Guggenheim a few months back, my wife and I did not think twice about bringing the boys when we were invited to a tour of the American Folk Art Museum. It could have been the sophomore jinx. The Folk Art Museum
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The rest of the photos are here.
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I am in Salt Lake City, Utah for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) conference. One of the things that drew me out here was an announcement that Malcolm Gladwell would be speaking at the conference’s opening ceremony. I was not disappointed. I have read (or read most of) his books, The Tipping
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