Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions - ReadWriteThink - 7 views
Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views
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Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
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rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
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new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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Lesson Plan: Updating Orwell's '1984' - NYTimes.com - 7 views
The Associated Press: Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens - 5 views
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aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior
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It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites.About one in 25 fall into both categories.
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Hyper-texting and hyper-networking were more common among girls, minorities, kids whose parents have less education and students from a single-mother household, the study found.
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Open Culture - 12 views
Woophy - Home - 13 views
Teacher Magazine: Giving Classrooms a Purpose - 11 views
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“Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Never.”
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On our overhead, I enter the choices in side-by-side columns and give examples of the difference between the two.
Going Viral? Creating Dance Videos Across the Curriculum - The Learning Network Blog - ... - 4 views
R-word.org - Change the conversation... - 9 views
Firework by Katy Perry Song Lyrics Poetry Terms Figurative Language - Tracee Orman - Te... - 22 views
"Monster" analysis by Shmoop - 12 views
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I'm all for using pop culture references in teaching, and I did read what Shmoop had to say on this particular video, but would you really feel comfortable sharing this video in class and having a discourse on it? I'm a Jay-Z fan and a hip hop lover from its earliest days, but this video and song are reprehensible on so many levels. With so much else that we can "source" for instruction, why this? Please help me understand. And don't say it's a gangsta thang.
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To answer your first question about showing the music video: absolutely not. Why this? I'm still struggling with it. We're in an age where we are entertained by self destruction. Kanye (unfortunately, because I was a fan of his earlier work) is definitely becoming one of the monster / Charlie Sheen / Jersey Shore / reality TV burnouts. And yet, there is an audience for it... When I first skimmed the analysis, I thought I'd go back to see if Schmoop was established enough to have a worthy application of Freud to Kanye. Alas, I was mistaken. I haven't become a fan of Schmoop; they've got some work to do. I'm sorry I misplaced my "under investigation" tag in ECN's collection.
Word Spy - 11 views
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