after the bell

Vicki Davis is a Georgia computer science teacher who has emerged over the last year as a voice for utilizing aspects of the read/write web in classrooms.  In December, she partnered with Julie Lindsey, a teacher at an International school in Bangladesh, to span the globe with a FlatClassroomProject wiki that was created by their [...]

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This weekend, while grading some nicely done unit plans, I listened to an extremely disturbing radio show. This week’s episode of This American Life was entitled “Shouting Across the Divide” and featured tales of being Muslim in present-day America. The first story broke my heart, as it described the experiences of a young [...]

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I ran across this post by Chris Lehmann, a former tech coordinator and now principal of the Science Learning Academy in Philadelphia. He talks about two ideas that are probably central for a principal at a “progressive” school: Making decisions that push the envelope of traditional schooling and empowering students to deal with freedom [...]

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The public radio show “Speaking of Faith” has devoted two episodes to Einsteins spiritual and ethical views. The podcasts as well as a significant collection of related resources can be found in the SOF Archive.
In the ethics episode, I was especially interested in S. James Gate’s discussion of Einstein’s concerns for the apparent discrepancy [...]

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