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This is an interesting photo essay that centers on what people around the world eat and spend on food for a week. I see many applications regarding social studies, ELA, math, etc. Here are several resources on this I've found:
Time photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
YouTube video
Educator's Guide
Hardcover Book for Kids
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Literature Links
Check out a preview of this entire book online: Igniting a Passion for Reading
On Shakespeare Searched, created by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, you can search all of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets for words, phrases, characters, topics, and themes (for example, love)
Wonder how many times certain words are used in a work? Try this out: Wordle
On Shakespeare Searched, created by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, you can search all of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets for words, phrases, characters, topics, and themes (for example, love)
Wonder how many times certain words are used in a work? Try this out: Wordle
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Teaching in the Knowledge Society
I started reading a book for my doctoral program and am very excited about it. (Click on title to go to book ordering site.) Here's the rundown of Chapter 1:
It's basically how we are now in a knowledge-based society, and education needs to change the way we educate students.
Some tidbits that hit home with me:
"Nations and groups that do not or cannot participate in the informational society become increasingly marginalized by it." - pg. 18
"But schools and their teachers cannot and should not stand aside from their responsibilities to promote young people's opportunities in, engagements with, and inclusion within the high-skill world of knowledge, information, communication, and innovation." - pg. 21
"Subjecting them to more of the same does not change what students are achieving at." - pg. 21
"The regulations and routines of factories, monasteries, and self-perpetuating bureaucracies provide young people with poor preparation for a highly innovative, flexible, and team-based knowledge economy where rountine is the enemy of risk." - pg. 23
"Schools that are learning organizations for everyone build capacity to develop these essentials of collective intelligence." - pg. 27
"If we are to encourage students to be risk-takers, teachers must be risk-takers, too. Teaching is not a place for shrinking violets, for the overly sensitive, for people who are more comfortable with dependent children than they are with independent adults. It is a job for grown-ups, requiring grown-up norms of how to work together." - pg. 28
Take it for what it's worth. I think it's stellar.
It's basically how we are now in a knowledge-based society, and education needs to change the way we educate students.
Some tidbits that hit home with me:
"Nations and groups that do not or cannot participate in the informational society become increasingly marginalized by it." - pg. 18
"But schools and their teachers cannot and should not stand aside from their responsibilities to promote young people's opportunities in, engagements with, and inclusion within the high-skill world of knowledge, information, communication, and innovation." - pg. 21
"Subjecting them to more of the same does not change what students are achieving at." - pg. 21
"The regulations and routines of factories, monasteries, and self-perpetuating bureaucracies provide young people with poor preparation for a highly innovative, flexible, and team-based knowledge economy where rountine is the enemy of risk." - pg. 23
"Schools that are learning organizations for everyone build capacity to develop these essentials of collective intelligence." - pg. 27
"If we are to encourage students to be risk-takers, teachers must be risk-takers, too. Teaching is not a place for shrinking violets, for the overly sensitive, for people who are more comfortable with dependent children than they are with independent adults. It is a job for grown-ups, requiring grown-up norms of how to work together." - pg. 28
Take it for what it's worth. I think it's stellar.
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