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Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as […]
Category Archives: citizenship 2.0
The Most Important Edu Website I Know: Education for Well-Being Strikes Again
May 13, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Project Global Cooling Blows in to Bangkok
April 23, 2008 – 4:43 pm
International School of Bangkok’s Justin Medved asked me to spread the word about their elementary and middle school Project Global Cooling events, both of which will be Ustreamed:
Middle School Concert for Climate Change - 12-2 pm Bangkok Time on Thursday April 24th
Elementary Earth Day Festival - 8am - 1pm Bangkok time on Friday April 25th
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Tune in to Melbourne’s Project Global Cooling uStream Today
April 19, 2008 – 10:34 am
This is pretty amazing.
From Jenny Luca and the students at Toorak College, an all-girls high school in Melbourne:
Yes, today is Friday and time for the customary school’s out post. This week it’s different, because school is definitely on for me and my students tomorrow as we stage our Project Global Cooling concert. Tune in to ustream […]
Six Countries Collaborate on Project Global Cooling, a K-12 “Live Earth”
April 17, 2008 – 6:01 am
I just finished watching Al Gore’s new TED Talk - the debut of his first new presentation since An Inconvenient Truth, called “How Dare We Be Optimistic?”, and will embed it at the bottom of this post. As TED describes it, Gore “presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than […]
Fear-Based Curriculum: A Language Arts Tragedy (More on Teaching Lolita)
April 15, 2008 – 6:39 am
Extending my last post on why I think Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita should be required reading at some point in high school language arts classes:
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus kills his father, then marries and impregnates his mother: we teach this parricidal, incestuous, antique “classic” to 14-year-olds.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the prince’s uncle murders his brother […]
