Education
My opinions as an educator.
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I’ve gotten into the habit of including a You Tube video in my posts to distract from the monotony of text. When it came to choosing a video for money, I found it harder than usual to decide on one video that would best accompany the post. I ended up selecting the Flying Lizards cover…
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Starting in elementary school, my sister and I got a dollar a week in allowance. It may not seem like much now but back then it was enough for two Spider-man comics or four Hershey’s bars or a large handful of Bazooka Joe bubble gum. I know because between us, my sister was the saver.…
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We should be able to look every second grader in the eye and say, ‘You’re on track, you’re going to be able to go to a good college, or you’re not,’ Right now, in too many states, quite frankly, we lie to children. We lie to them and we lie to their families. Where were…
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One of the reasons my wife and I decided to stay and raise our boys in Manhattan instead of joining the homesteaders in Westchester, New Jersey, or Connecticut is we are only 20 minutes away from a unique and engaging cultural event. However, finding the time to take advantage of these events is a different…
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From the outside it sounds facetious, “teaching to the brain.” Of course you teach to the brain. Teaching is expression: the telling. Learning is cognition: the synthesizing of what is being heard. Teri Cox’s presentation on the “middle school mind” at the 2008 National Middle School Association conference left a lasting impression on me. It…
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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…
Vincent Young 