January 2011
16 posts
Your investigation made a big difference in my...
Thank you for your ProPublica article “Furious Growth and Cost Cuts Led To BP Accidents Past and Present.” I hope you enjoy my students thoughtful and sometimes lively comments on your writing and their replies on each others’ comments. Posted via email from New Journalism | Comment »
“Systems Thinking
She pointed to the Gulf of Mexico is as a prime example of...”
– Jacques Cousteau’s Granddaughter Continues His Legacy - Georgetown University
Nancy Mintz and Felicia George
Nancy Mintz and Felicia George
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“Your love for seafood reminds me of my family’s addiction to seafood. As I...”
– Response of a high school student at the East-West School of International Studies in response to an article by an Lousiana State University at Eunice student:
Potential Health Effects of Food Contamination From the BP Oil Spill | Voices on the Gulf
“In 2010 alone, there have been major oil disasters off the coasts of China,...”
– The Gulf Between Us | Terry Tempest Williams | Orion Magazine
Skype in the Classroom with George Mayo and...
Skype is trying something new, and we wanted to find out what it’s all about. Do you use Skype in your classroom—or have considered it?
Join us this Wednesday, January 19 at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA (World Times).
We were intrigued when we saw “Skype in the classroom: A free directory that connects teachers and helps them use Skype to...
“The blowout from the Macondo well has created a terminal condition: denial. We...”
– The Gulf Between Us | Terry Tempest Williams | Orion Magazine
“Adaptation often gets kicked to the curb in hopes of getting people to focus on...”
– Australia’s Floods: A Climate Change Opportunity? | Climate Change
WatchWe’ve been playing Ayiti: Cost of Life, and some of us are getting good at it! We’ll be publishing our essays about Ayiti next week on Youth Voices.
Help me to build a more explicit community around...
I want to invite you to join me in an experiment in collaborative curriculum building this spring. With your help and the help of other teachers, I want to create and launch a series of challenges or missions that we can pose to students on Youth Voices and Voices on the Gulf. I’m not sure if the word challenge captures what I’m talking about. What I have in mind is to provide students with a...
“Place-based education (PBE) immerses students in local heritage, cultures,...”
– What is PBE | Promise of Place
“Each mission has three objectives.
LEARN - Investigate our great challenges...”
– How To Play - Urgent Evoke
You didn't miss Travis! Join us on Wednesday...
If you thought you missed our show with Travis Powell on Teachers Teaching Teachers last month, the good news is that you didn’t! We were planning to have a conversation with with Travis last month just when Skype went dead for several hours. We had to postpone until this week. So please plan to join us this Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live. We’d love to have you join us via...
“I think it’s important for all leaders, not just leaders of the Republican Party...”
– Representative Gabrielle Giffords on Violent Political Rhetoric, March 2010 « Student Activism
“The panel referred to “compartmentalization” of information within and between...”
– Gulf Spill Was Caused by Series of Errors, Panel Says - NYTimes.com
This paragraph points to one of the lessons we should be learning from the Gulf oil spill and from 9/11. Like bookends at the beginning and at the end of the last decade, these are the defining events of our time. As a teacher,...
Charlie Freij will be joining us on TTT tonight in...
Charlie helped found East Brooklyn Community High School, Canarsie, NYC, USA last year, and his students have been using Youth Voices more and more! If you are interested to have your students on Youth Voices — or curious — this would be a great show to join us via Skype! Check out Charlie’s students’ work here. We’ll also get an update on his school’s program...