Core 1: Go over Vocab homework. Play Vocab basketball. Find words to substitute for the five words you crossed off. Wordie Double-Tonged Dictionary Pseudodictionary Reverse Dictionary Core 2: Discuss-on: What can 10 words do that 10,000 cannot? What is framing a debate? What would have been the great debate about …
This podcast was brought about because of the classroom discussion that my eighth graders had about what a terrible affect Myspace can have on their lives. I wanted to start brainstorming a school-sponsored space that we could substitute for Myspace that would be an extension of the classroom. This space …
Core 1: Close to 50 people have downloaded your two conversations on Perfect Learning Environments and the Internet as Utopia, and about 100 more have listened to them online. Not many students have the kind of audience that you do. Discuss-On: How would recording each class for a worldwide audience …
Cores 1-4: Read the Google Video Challenge See the new type of Nomination on del.icio.us Get comments from Mr. Wilkoff on del.icio.us Trade Comments Write your Weekly Authentic for Sem2_Week7 and submit to del.icio.us.
This was a discussion I had with my 8th graders about how the Internet could be used as a vehicle for creating a utopia in their everyday lives. I was truly surprised and intrigued by some of their responses. Many of the students believe that the internet is a “0.” …
Cores 1-4: Revisit Personal Curriculum. Write out on a half sheet of paper: What you have done for your Personal Curriculum Project. What you still need to do in order to present. Core 1: Take the Internet as Utopia poll as a class. Discuss the four chapters of Utopian Art. …
Core 1: Discuss-On: What is a society judged upon? Continue to work on the Utopian Art projects. Core 2: Write-On: How can a movement be influenced by mood or tone? Read Excerpts from Life in the Iron Mills. Describe how these Excerpts represent industrialism. Core 3: Continue to become an …
Convincing parents that the skills of School 2.0 are important is going to be one of the biggest jobs facing all teaching in the very near future. I have outlined in this podcast three possible ways of accomplishing this goal: 1. Student exemplars of continual advancement. 2. Constant communication and …
The first piece of my personal curriculum that I have decided to tackle is reading 3 boy coming-of-age novels and starting one of my own. This is not something I have done absentmindedly, but rather with the strange focus of something that has true importance for my life. You see, …
Core 1: Based on all of the things that you have seen, what are the truest statements that you can make about utopias? What does a Utopia visually look like? Can we visualize it better than we can do it? Explore the Utopian art exhibit at the New York Public …