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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested - 1 views

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henry louis gates APEnglish assumptions downplaying intensiifying

shared by Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The disorderly conduct charges
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      The disorder doesn't correspond well with the meek picture to the right of the caption, nor does it correspond with that of the passive victim depicted below.
  • the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of Harvard University
  • was driven
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      Here the author chooses the PASSIVE VOICE to downplay any aggression of Gates, and intensify his victim status.
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  • filming his new PBS documentary
  • attempted
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      Much less threatening than "Gates entered the house." Shows he might not have been successful. He may have been doing this as an academic exercise.
  • again attempted
  • With the help of his driver
  • requested
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      so polite, huh.
  • Professor Gates opened
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      Emphasizes his cordiality
  • observed
  • University identification and his valid Massachusetts driver’s license
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      ETHOS of officiality
  • Professor Gates then asked the police officer if he would give him his name and his badge number
  • He made this request several times
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      Emphasizes Gates' patience.
  • He was handcuffed on his own front porch.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
       
      Reiterates the absurdity/irony. Unfortunately, people are arrested in their own homes daily. This hardly would be a surprising tidbit, but for the preceding characterization of the author of Gates' situation.
  • Professor Gates’ home without ever acknowledging who he was or if there were charges against Professor Gates.
  • Bryan Lee on 23 Nov 09
     
    This is used when teaching Brent Staples's essay "Black Men and Public Space"
Bryan Lee

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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21stcenturyskills technology socrates teaching education leadership curriculum

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  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate.
  • sea of trivia
  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
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  • incessant communication is really a complex manifestation of miscommunication that does not lead to intellectual growth
  • unearned celebrity
  • creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
  • the European Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, both of which convinced us that we can make a better world through creating knowledge and applying it to human needs
  • fragments of thought.
  • Human beings already are prone to think in magical terms
  • manufactured culture
  • The celebrity cult replaces real heroes with made-up ones, much to the detriment of children's mental health
  • it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions
  • Critical Reflection
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events
  • please the gods or fate to survive
  • problem solving.
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
  • Yale Divinity School
  • Bryan Lee on 09 Mar 10
     
    Some of the down side of technological integration
Bryan Lee

Student Resource Center Bronze Document - 0 views

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21stcenturyskills publications technology education research web2.0 pbl project-based teaching learning apenglish

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  • Bryan Lee on 11 Mar 10
     
    An article about AP classrooms and the effects Google Web 2.0 applications have on acheivement.
  • Bryan Lee on 11 Mar 10
     
    An article about AP classrooms and the effects Google Web 2.0 applications have on acheivement.
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