Check out this great post on The Committed Sardine Blog by Ross Crockett. With my kindle, smartboard, and droid phone, I can’t imagine what the future will hold when these things become obsolete because they have changed the way I live and teach today. To think that I dream of having a classroom that is completely paperless and wired… I wonder what my students dream of in their ideal classrooms. I think I’ll ask them tomorrow!
Check it out…we were on Good Morning America on the “Your 3 Words” segment!
Here are the original videos by my 7th grade classes:
We will be supporting the Aeropostale Teens for Jeans program again this year! We will be collecting jeans (teen size to adult) from January 19th until February 11th. The advisor with the most jeans donated will win a dress down day!
The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Click here to explore Time Magazine’s photoessay section.
Click here to go to the NYT’s multimedia page.
NPR has great current even resources here. They also have an incredible multimedia page that has video and podcast articles about what is going on in the world today as well as in the arts. You can even listen to podcasts of the news on an hourly basis.
We are what we do is a small way to get your students thinking about doing things to help make the world a better place.
