December 2011
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A Vienna of the Mind
http://prufrocksdilemma.blogspot.com/2011/12/vienna-of-mind.html
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Why don't we value spatial intelligence?
Consider this. Ever since you were a kid, can you remember taking a standardized test that didn’t have a math or verbal section? I can’t. Pretty much all of them have math, science, English, reading, and maybe writing sections. Even when you got to high school, and you took the SAT or ACT, there were verbal, math, and science sections.
So what’s missing?
For many students, everything is...
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"There is nobody in this country who got rich on...
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“How do I get a job lobbying the U.S. government... →
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To: The Upper Ones, From: The Strategy Committee, Re: The Alarming Behavior of College Students
The committee has been reconvened in haste to respond to a disturbing new trend: the uprisings by students on elite college campuses.
Across the Ivy League the young people whom our Wall Street…
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Meltdown in the Bunker: Hitler Gets the Test...
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‘You don’t suffer from Asperger’s, you suffer from...
poughkeepsieday:
Girls on the Spectrum: Q&A with the Author of Aspergirls
Is Asperger syndrome really less common in girls and women, or are females just better than males at masking autistic symptoms?
Rudy Simone, a San Francisco singer, writer and stand-up comic, didn’t learn that she was on the autism spectrum until her mid-40s. Simone has Asperger syndrome — a high-functioning form...
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Helen Frankenthaler Dies at 83 →
rhubarbic:
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 83
by Reid Singer on December 27, 2011
Image via NYdailynews.com
Helen Frankenthaler, one of the earliest and most influential contributors to the Abstract Expressionist movement, has died at the age of 83.
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Street Cricket
Photography involves two main distortions - the simplification into black and white and the seizing of an instant in time. It is this particular mixture of reality and unreality, and the photographer’s power to select, that makes it possible for photography to be an art. Whether it is good art depends on the power and truth of the artist’s...
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Getting To No: Building True Collegiality in... →
Nice shout-out for the value of Critical Friends Groups in building a collegial faculty culture.
Getting To No
Building True Collegiality in Schools Robert Evans Winter 2012
Amid all the controversy about how to improve America’s schools, the importance of strengthening collegial collaboration among teachers has drawn almost unanimous support. Fostering teachers’ collective engagement...
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Alf Garnett argues politics Christmas 1966
Thirty five years since this was shown on Boxing Day 1966. And the BBC switchboards were jammed with complaints.
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Jamaica's Patois Bible: The Word of God in Creole
And be sure to check out the two girls in the video.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16285462
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It's Wonderful World and a Wonderful Film
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Quotation at the front of the PDS brochure for...
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Before there was Monty Python...
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…there was this joyfully perverse animated Christmas card from Terry Gilliam.
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"Not where the light is": Schools and Creativity
There’s a really useful article in Education Week that reviews, summarizes and connects the basic thinking and research out there on what helps promote creativity and helps children incubate the curiosity that leads to innovation, discovery and invention.
There’s little here that is new and indeed I have written on all of these topics many times but it is encouraging to see the...
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Looking out to the North Sea and down to...
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Moulic '08
poughkeepsieday:
Awarded The Rousseau Prize at Smith College. This prize is awarded annually to a member of the junior or senior class studying with the Smith College program in Geneva. The prize was established by members of the French department and other friends in honor of Denise Rochat upon her retirement from Smith College in December 2006.
This photograph was taken at the...
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Scientists to study psychological benefits of...
Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and we would have to cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our sense of wellbeing is to be explored in a three-year research project at the University of Surrey, supported by the National Trust and Surrey Wildlife Trust.
The study will examine the psychological impact of being exposed to ...
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Washington Post →
A guest post on The Answer Sheet this month about a school board member in Florida who took a version of a standardized test and was horrified at what he found drew an unusually large readership. It could be a fluke that the post went viral, but it is more likely that the Dec. 5 post, written by veteran educator Marion Brady, hit a nerve with an audience increasingly disturbed about test-based...
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Wrandomness Written: Meta-Education →
clifhirtle:
Did you see the headline? Stanford professors this fall opened up their class on AI from 175 local students to 23,000 global students. On locally-proctored exams, most global students scored similar to those students paying $40k/year at Stanford. In speaking on the issue, author Michael…
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The Compass Point: Bad Online Behavior Jeopardizes... →
poughkeepsieday From Education Week:
Stellar transcripts aside, students now have to worry about an increasing number of colleges peering at their social-networking pages online—and potentially denying their applications because of what they find there.
The number of college-admissions officials using Facebook and other…
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The Physics of Angry Birds →
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School Day Afternoon
School Day Afternoon I climb the steps of the yellow school bus, move to a seat in back, and we’re off, bouncing along the bumpy blacktop. What am I going to do when I get home? I’m going to make myself a sugar sandwich and go outdoors and look at the birds and the gigantic blue silo they put up across the road at Motts’. This weekend we’re going to the farm show....
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Absolut Power
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Absolut Power (2003), by Hank Willis Thomas, at lat year’s Museum of Art and Designs’ exhibition The Global Africa Project,
Look closely: It’s a mash-up mashup of the Stowage of the British Slave Ship “Brookes” (1789) and the Absolut Vodka ad campaign. This was one of many wonderful pieces on display.
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Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator?
lareviewofbooks:
RENATE STENDHAL on Gertrude Stein’s latest revival and the enduring questions about her wartime years. Gertrude Stein © by Carl Van Vechten 1944, Courtesy of Marquette University, Raynor Memorial Libraries
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories Contemporary Jewish Museum May 12 - September 6, 2011 The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde SFMOMA May...
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And that's when the presents exploded...
poughkeepsieday:
And That’s When the Presents Exploded - A True Christmas Tale on Storybird
An hilarious true tale to debunk all those silly myths. Go Alice the elephant!
Collaborative storytelling from Storybird. Start with the image and unlock the story.
Curious about Storybird? Read their “About Us” Storybird. And then maybe make your own. Great holiday activity.
About us: a...
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A Modern Village School: Christmas 1944
Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From the Imperial War Museum collection.
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NY School Decline: 10 Years of Assessing Students...
In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children’s academic progress. Thanks to the best education minds in Washington, Albany and Lower Manhattan, we now have finely calibrated state tests aligned with the highest academic standards. What follows is a look back at New York’s long...
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Want to be a teacher?
Learn by doing: The Progressive Education Lab is accepting applicants.
Energetic, Intelligent, Reflective and Creative Individuals
PEL seeks energetic, intelligent, reflective and creative individuals who aspire to become skilled and artful teacher-leaders in progressive schools. Successful applicants will embrace the challenges of learning-by-doing in schools as the central component in...
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The 10 key skills for the future of work — Online... →
courosa:
What are they?
Sense-making. The ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
Social intelligence. The ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
Novel and adaptive thinking. Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or...
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From The Atlantic: Class of Civilizations - The... →
Reasons why critical thinking (in all interpretations of the word) should be driven by exploration of common values as well as cultural competence. Nationalism and patriotism (ours, theirs and everyone’s) usually at odds with broader human values
“After all, Race to the Top — a competition that has states vie for federal funds...”
– Jon Stewart takes on Obama’s school reform — again - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post (via holeycynicism)
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Facebook fight or flight
Facebook has stored away all the breadcrumbs of your life and is about to roll out a trip down your memory lane.
With the launch of Timeline comes a choice - batten down the hatches and close the account or take advantage of a rather elegant new tool for creating and presenting a personal online history.
Either way it’s an opportunity to take control: Either rein in and prune that...
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A Curious Cat Discovers Christmas
Whose children have been left behind? →
teachlet:
This year at the Opportunity to Learn Summit, Diane Ravitch, an education historian who previously openly supported the No Child Left Behind Act and charter schools, gave a keynote speech on the Act’s legacy and its failures. You can find the whole speech HERE. I will refrain from commenting, except to ask that people keep in mind when she mentions the success of Finland’s public...
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BBC Nature Video Collections →
world-shaker:
The BBC Nature Video Collection is a large library of video clips from the excellent BBC Natural History archive, many narrated by the legend that is Sir David Attenborough.
The video clips include some from the amazing Frozen Planet, the latest exploration into the remote and isolated polar environments. Some of the scenes are totally jaw-dropping. For example the Brinicle;...
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What I Learned About the Wired World on Jury Duty →
Jon Mitchell served on a jury. He learned a great deal about the power of a digital footprint:
Before long, I could tell why I was chosen. It was a civil case, and practically all the character evidence was in the form of email, Facebook and Myspace posts. That’s all we had to juxtapose with the in-person testimony and figure out who was telling the truth. It was a bit embarrassing at...
