I have been interviewing at schools in Virginia over the past few weeks and it has forced me to think about the aims of education and the changes in society that are affecting what we teach and how we teach. Technology and diversification seem to be the hot topics of education right now; teachers must [...]
Entries from March 2006
Thoughts on Education
March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: Virginia · blogs · education · philosophy
Throw Away Your Television
March 9th, 2006 · Comments Off
From the Eastern Arizona Courier:
Study shows benefits of turning off TV
By Lindsey Stockton, assistant editor
When Ret. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman spoke to teachers on March 1 about the impact large doses of violent visual media has on youth, he ended his seminar with a case study that was hard to ignore.
Stanford University Medical School recently [...]
Tags: education
Finally, a voice of reason
March 9th, 2006 · Comments Off
Yahoo News posted this story on March 8 that every teacher should read. Teachers get too much of the blame for why our students do not succeed. In this opinion editorial, Patrick Walsh explains that there are many other factors that go into why students fail, starting with the student himself. You can have the [...]
Tags: education
Blogs for Everyone!
March 8th, 2006 · Comments Off
This blog was begun as an assignment for a grad class I am currently taking. I am enjoying it so much that I am definitely going to continue with it after the class is over. It also gave me the idea to use blogs in my classroom. I set up another blog for my humanities [...]
Tags: blogs · education · education tools · technology
