Banning Facebook in school: Interview on the Craig Fahle Show, WDET
I was a guest on WDET’s Craig Fahle Show yesterday. The topic was the the recently passed Missouri law that bans teachers from interacting with students on Face...
Category: Politics
iVideos from Australia, the 2011 edition
Last June I had posted a note (Teacher as filmmaker: An update from down under) about the iVideos created by students from the University of Technology, Sydney ...
Reading Obama, and getting it right!
I rarely if ever blog about politics – though I follow it avidly. I spend large parts of my day reading the news, keeping up with what is going on. Most o...
MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted —in Strength to Love, 1964
21st Century Skills? What do they mean?
A decade into the 21st century, how are we doing with the movement to “position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education.” The Nationa...
Darwin film can’t find distributor
Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’ How sad is that!
Keeping tabs on the experts
In an age where experts are a dime a dozen, willing to pontificate at the drop of a pin, it is hard to tell whom to believe, and whom NOT to believe. In comes P...
Of certainty & doubt
The NYTimes has a op-ed piece today by Max Blumenthal about an obscure letter Eisenhower wrote to “Robert Biggs, a terminally ill World War II veteran....
The revolution will be twittered
The recent (and ongoing) evens in Iran sadden me deeply… but also give me hope. The scenes and news emerging from there speak of courage and a need and de...
The first 100 days, on Facebook
This is just absolutely brilliant!! In particular check out the URL that Dick Cheney sends to Obama, approximately half-way down the page. (You will have to cop...