What a terrible few days. I am up today for the first time since my cold had knocked me out.
While I was laying in bed dying, I read: What We Say Goes by Noam Chomsky. This book is a series of transcribed interviews with David Barsamian.
This is the third interview series I have read by Noam Chomsky. The other two were: Class Warfare and Chronicles of Dissent. I really enjoyed reading this book even though I was rather short. It reaffirmed many of the views and ideas presented in: Failed State, the last book I read written by Noam Chomsky. I would recommend reading Failed States (my new favorite by this author) over What We Say Goes. In Failed States, Noam Chomsky is assertive and confident in his message.
To start reading WWSG, I put aside: The Mess They Made, by Gwen Dyer. This was a good book at first but has hit a serious lull that I cannot overcome.
My cold has also put me far behind on my holiday work list. Here to hoping that I will be super productive over the next few days.
People are starting to aknoledge the fact that we are educating and training people for jobs that don’t exist. How can we be sure that we are teaching the “right” things?
I firmly believe that schools help build the core competencies that enable people to be successful later in life. This is the question: What are the tools that are going to enable people to be successful tomorrow? What about a year from now? Are schools going to help students learn to use the tools that they will need to be successful?
To think that a 2 year-old has already developed the basic skills to manipulate this device is not surprising. Children and people learn from manipulating and building an understanding of how things “work”.
In Canada we do not even have the network capabilities for iPhones.
I would love to read your thoughts about the youtube video and this topic in general!
In my lunchroom, we nearly fill one of these garbage cans (and they are large- 50L or so) when we combine our AM garbage with our lunchroom waste. In my lunchroom there are 26 children and one adult.
At our school we have a paper recycling and a juicebox/milk container recycling program. Glass and aluminum aren’t really an issue at our school.
Our school, like our city, does not have a plastic recycling program. Our school and our society produce huge amounts of plastic waste.
My reason for blogging about my school’s recycling stems from my personal belief that one 50L garbage bag per classroom for a lunchroom is excessive. I am wondering if anybody has any tips or suggestions for my school as to how we can encourage or model a way to trim down on lunch garbage, especially from containers and wrappers, knowing that families have less time to prepare lunches and are forced to buy pre-made packaged lunches. My school alone produce a real mound of garbage everyday. How can my school take a very real step towards sustainability?
I miss the golden color of harvest now that everything is white here in Saskatchewan. I made a new header for my blog. I found this picture on FlickrStorm. Here is the link the Stu Worral’s Flickr account.
What I have been viewing to make better presentations
Mr Meyer
Today at Apple
Being face to face people from my digital community
Need for human contact?
Do we need to physically do to get the experience?
Manipulatives!
Need for transparency in classroom practice
Open the classroom up to outside involvement
Educators as facilitators
Learning through manipulation
Learning is social
Adult workspace vs. student workspace
Feedback? Contact me!
I really don’t like podcasting by myself. I prefer the cooperative podcast that is interactive beyond the one person. Reminds me of 100% teacher-talk.
Please do leave feedback. Thoughts, similar experiences, differing opinion- let’s have ‘em. I will post the promised vodcast this weekend. Still looking for visual content that is really appropriate to my message.
