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Goomoodleikiog: Transforming Teaching in Plain English

what all this “21st Century” hype is all about

Common Craft-style video by Leigh Murrell and Heidi Beezley:

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We have had the privilege to work with a Native American school on an Indian Reservation in Coulee Dam, WA for the past several weeks where we have collaborated on our writing, shared about the community in which we live, and have learned about perspectives as we have become more familiar with a culture that was once thought to be very different from our own. There was a connectedness that PDS boys from Memphis, TN realized existed between two different cultures: the same interests in sports, technology, the love of outdoors, and music.

Give struggling students time and take it slow.

If students, not just struggling students, were given time and space to write and think about and talk about their writing and then write it again....what would happen?

semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

Seinfeld and Chris Rock talk about how much material Jerry has assembled for the new act. “I have fifteen minutes of good material after four months,” he tells Rock, who immediately responds with evident respect and even surprise, saying how remarkable that is. All I could think was: Fifteen minutes!? In four months?! All I could think was: Teachers have to go in five days a week and do five shows a day for fifty-five minutes! If Barry Bonds goes up to bat five times in a game, he will likely strike out twice, get walked, maybe single, and probably homer once. And they consider him “one of the greats.” There are no performance enhancing drugs for teachers; there is only the steady work of the master, carefully attaching what might to what does work, then shaving off what does not fit, to eventually produce what is worthy of their name...