Core 1: Write-on: If you had a machine that could create anything, would you use it? Why or why not? Read: How the World Was Saved. What is the virtue of thinking through each of your actions? Core 2: Write-on: Finish this quotation any way that you think makes sense …
Cores 1-3: Revisit how you are going to prove to your parents that you learned something. One Idea Another Idea Field Reading for AR and Partner Passes. Core 4: Work on your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic and finalize your Survival Simulations.
Cores 1-4: Write your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic. Self-Assess with Mr. Wilkoff your best post of the quarter. Nominate in the new del.icio.us process.
Core 1: Do your Write-ons on the Discovery Message Board. Flip back to the Vocabulary books with some Vocab Basketball? Core 2: Write-on: What is the most significant movement of our time (literary, social, political, etc.)? How was it defined/started? Explore the definitions of Transcendentalism through author’s quotations. Core 3: …
Core 1: Write-On: How equal should people be in a society? Read Harrison Bergeron and look for who’s Utopia the story is? What is Kurt Vonnegut critiquing by writing this piece? Core 2: Write-On: What are all of the ways that you can be a non-conformist? How is Emerson a …
I have been thinking a lot about how we have the same graduation requirements that we have always had. We may have upped the number of Math and English classes, but each student has to do the same things in high school, jump through the same hoops. Why is it …
Core 1: Check out the rest of the “Ideal” vacations, meals, and cars. What does your ideal item say about the society that you think is perfect? What does it say about the society that you do not think is perfect? What is a utopia and what is a dystopia? …
I created this podcast because I was frustrated with the way our vision of education seems to conflict with the reality of education. I know that the administration at my school wants only what is best for kids. I do not have any doubts in their abilities as leaders. Yet, …
This podcast is of a discussion that I had with my 7th and 8th grade students about what they think the perfect learning environment would be like. I asked them a few guiding questions, but their ideas were purely their own. I think there is a lot of insight here. …
Cores 1-4: Day 2 of trying to get Learnerblogs to cooperate. If it will: Post your Sem2_Week4 Weekly Authentic and Del.icio.us post. Comment on other Del.icio.us posts. Nominate for Authenticity Awards. Work on Personal Curriculum. If it won’t Door Number 3.