January 2012
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0080: Teaching for Democracy #SOPA #PIPA
Blackout SOPA and PIPA. We need freedom of information. Call a congressman. Keep the first amendment. Talk to your students tomorrow. Help them participate. Write letters. Assign them something that requires Wikipedia. Then let them write letters to congress asking for help rectifying their missed assignment. Tomorrow is a great day for learning about the power of the people and true democracy.
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0079: #SOPA to Close the Achievement Gap in Public...
#BlackoutSOPA #education #J18 #satire
Finally a piece of legislation that has our students in mind! I have no doubt that SOPA will level the playing field. You see the kids at my school don’t consistently have access to the internet at home, and at school it’s already heavily censored. The kids across town do. So SOPA will make everyone even. It will also make me a better teacher. In...
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America's Teachers See Poverty Up Close →
#teacher #poverty #edreform
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“Adaptation is behavior characteristic of the animal sphere; exhibited by man, it...”
– Paulo Freire from Education for Critical Consciousness
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0078: On Teacher Education. In Opposition to...
#teaching #education #edreform
Teachers should enter the field with a working knowledge of pedagogy built from a strong understanding of theory and nurtured through actual practice. They should know how to engage students in dialogue, and properly mediate discussions. They should know how to reflect on their own practice, and make decisions based on their reflections. They should know how to...
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Please Read: The importance of the teacher in... →
Discusses the importance of teachers in education reform from which they are often absent. There are millions of teachers in this country. We are a powerful force if we use our voices.
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0077: #Teacher Training, Professional Development,...
#education #critical #edreform
I gave my students a quiz this morning and I asked them to fold their paper lengthwise and pass it in. They didn’t exactly understand lengthwise so I said “a hotdog fold”. They quickly made the correct fold and passed in the papers.
The term “hotdog fold” brought about a series of flashbacks to undergraduate education classes and...
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“#revolution #education #occupy
All is lost, in spite of glittering...”
– Denis Goulet’s Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Education for Critical Consciousness
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0076: Sharing the #Power: Fault with myself as a...
#discipline #school #critical
I feel that I often lack the courage to eliminate myself as a figure of authority in order to allow true learning. Given I must support learners as they develop their own self-discipline. I simply have trouble allowing them this freedom. Perhaps it is because of time constraints or the truth of impending assessments and projects, but that hardly seems to suffice as...
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0075: Re: The US 3rd World, Its Children, and the...
#teaching #poverty #revolution #occupy
Dear Readers,
I teach, like many of you, invisible children in an invisible neighborhood. They are, to many, the nameless, faceless children of the third world within these United States. They will grow up witnessing violence and drug use. They will be victims of violence. They will commit acts of violence. They will be victims of every sort of abuse...
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“#revolution #education #occupy
…theory or introspection in the absence...”
– Denis Goulet’s Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Education for Critical Consciousness
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“#revolution #education #occupy
…action without critical reflection and...”
– Denis Goulet’s Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Education for Critical Consciousness
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0075: Re: The US Third World, Its Children, and...
#teaching #poverty #literacy #revolution #occupy
Dear Readers,
I teach, like many of you, invisible children in an invisible neighborhood. They are, to many, the nameless, faceless children of the third world within these United States. They will grow up witnessing violence and drug use. They will be victims of violence. They will commit acts of violence. They will be victims of every sort of...
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“#occupy #education #ows
As teachers, we deal with people, with children,...”
– Paulo Freire from Teachers as Cultural Workers
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0074: #Occupy and #Anonymous in the Classroom: To...
@UnicornsImage #censorship #discourse #legion
I received a response to a Tweet I made regarding the importance of helping students understand the occupy movement. The response stated: “@educatedtodeath Teachers should TEACH our kids not BRAINWASH them! #ows DOES NOT belong in ANY curriculum!” I tweeted back that I agreed. The Occupy Movement does not belong in a standardized...
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“…studying requires the development of rigorous discipline, which we must...”
– Paulo Freire from Teachers as Cultural Workers
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“Studying is a demanding occupation, in the process of which we will encounter...”
– Paulo Freire from Teachers as Cultural Workers
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0073: #Education as Utopia, or Heaven, or Not so...
#SOS #revolution #teaching
If I had my way, if schools were to slide from the dystopian clutches of training and ennui, then how would they look? I struggle to produce an image, and I find it hard to recall what I know about how people really learn and function. But, here goes.
We’ll start with the teachers. Teachers would work together, and now just during rare and pointless faculty...
