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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Pass It On Education Resources: More Politically Correct Editions Of Classics? English teachers, what is your take on the Huck Finn in high schools controversy? It is such a valuable piece of American literature and history. Yet, it portrays an uglier aspect of American linguistic history. The LA Times article below opines on the latest attempt to "modernize" Twain's works. Click on the image to access the full article!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 10:55 PM (permalink)
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Friday, April 1, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Do We Even Understand What Our Leaders Are Talking About? When It Comes To Money...We Should!Do you have an accurate picture of what our federal government spends money on? Countless studies show that most Americans don't. The piece below from whitehouse.gov gives a visual representation of what makes up our federal budget. If you click the image, you will get a copy of the image that you can mouse over to see exactly what percentage each item is in the federal budget. Foreign aid??? Merely .6 percent of our budget. NPR, less than .1 of 1%. When our politicians are talking about cuts that don't involve health care, national security, social security, and other income supports...they are not fundamentally discussing the budget issue.  This would be an excellent visual for young people to study in a Social Studies or Math course. If you know an educator who can use it... Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 9:26 AM (permalink)
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Friday, March 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Way Out There, Man!The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury. For the first time ever, humans (NASA) now have a satellite in orbit around this hot planet. It took over six years for the "Messenger" satellite to travel 4.9 BILLION miles! "Are we there yet???" Click the image below for the full CNN article  Check It Out! Pass It On! (I told you I was going Science heavy today!) Posted at 4:43 PM (permalink)
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Friday, March 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: It Only Happens Every Twenty Years--->This Weekend A Full Moon Will Be As Close To The Earth As It Gets!The moon will appear larger and brighter this weekend. Its orbit varies up to 31,000 miles from its closest location to Earth---the perigee--- to its furthest point---the apogee. Even this weekend, as close as the moon ever gets to Earth, it is still 211,600 miles away! Here are a few quotes from the CNN story that you can access by clicking the image below: "Saturday's full moon will be a super 'perigee moon' -- the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once about every two-and-a-half years." "The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993" Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 4:27 PM (permalink)
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Sunday, March 13, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Should 'Personal Finance' Be One Of Our Most Important Required Classes?I often wonder if there is anything we can teach in school that would surpass the value of quality instruction in both personal finance and parenting. These two subjects should probably be core courses. Besides literacy and number sense, what can be more critical in the twenty-first century than the two under-taught life skills of personal finance and parenting. Are these being learned at home? Could our nation be stronger if young people systematically "learned" these two life skills? The piece below is very interesting. Apple users, imagine how much money you could have made had you bought Apple stocks rather than Apple products. Take a look at how prudent investors become 'haves' while so many others become 'have-nots.' I have bought a ton of Apple products over the years, in most cases to improve my job capabilities and performance. In hindsight, I could be wealthy right now!!! I chose the path of priorities taught to me in secondary education.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 8:38 AM (permalink)
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Thomas Jefferson, Our Bibliophilic PresidentIf you know a history teacher or anyone who reads American history, this New York Times article contains quite a bit of interesting information about TJ and his books! Click the image below to access the full story.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 5:30 PM (permalink)
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Monday, February 21, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Humans Creating Heat Hotter Than The Core Of Our SunScience and math teachers will likely enjoy this article. Can you imagine that scientists in Europe are heating particles up to a mind-blowing 4 Trillion Degrees! That is hotter than the core of the sun! There are some fascinating numbers and facts in this article that are likely to catch the attention of young people.  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, February 14, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Mathematicians---->Are There Enough Email Addresses To Go Around?This is an interesting article from CNN.com that Math teachers and others could use to get the attention of young people. Young people love the internet; these numbers are mind boggling! If you know someone who can use this in their classroom or home---or anyone who just likes interesting information about the evolution of the internet... Posted at 6:32 PM (permalink)
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Sunday, February 13, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: A Fascinating Article About The Texas Declaration Of IndependencePerhaps my theme today is becoming "Texas"...or WFAA.com! If you know a history teacher...or anyone who loves Texas and/or history...pass this along to them! This is a well-written, detailed, and fascinating story! Posted at 11:51 AM (permalink)
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Friday, January 21, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: A Brighter Day Could Be Just Around The CornerIn the dumps? Wish you could have more sunshine in your life? It may happen in 2012...or within the next million years or so at least. If you know a Science teacher...or just an inquiring mind... Posted at 4:40 PM (permalink)
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Monday, January 17, 2011 Photo Of The Day: New Life Magazine Photos Of The 1961 Freedom RidesCNN presents six never-before published Life Magazine photos from the Freedom Rides of spring, 1961.  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, January 17, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Muppet Names Venn Diagrammed!This would be a cute piece to use during an introduction to Venn Diagrams. I thought it was quite clever! I bet you know another educator who might like this. Pass It On!  Click here to download a larger copy of the image! credit: www.collegehumor.com Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 1:52 PM (permalink)
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Monday, January 17, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: MLK Day Information And ResourcesTwenty-five years in observance. From Wikipedia: "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King's birthday, January 15. The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, though the act predated the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by fifteen years. King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed on January 20, 1986. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000." View the entire Wikipedia entry here. Beyond that simple Wikipedia reference, the website below is sponsored by The Corporation For National And Community Service. It is loaded with information and action plans for those who want to make MLK Day more than just another date on their calendar.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: History For Music LoversThe New Yorker magazine recently spotlighted a group of history teachers who produce music video parodies to convey History content. Their project History for Music Lovers currently has 50 videos of a surprisingly high quality.  Here is one example of many worthy videos! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:40 PM (permalink)
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Friday, January 14, 2011 Communication: Even A Newspaper Can Save You From A Bad BurnFor as relatively carefree and innocent as the 1950s are often characterized, this widely disseminated attempt to inform young people of emerging dangers reminds us how scary the time was for a nation just learning the extent of human destructive capabilities. For some of you, this will bring back memories. For others it can lend perspective. Social Studies teachers, in particular, will no doubt appreciate you passing this along! And remember: "If you don't know what to do, ask your teacher when this film is over!" Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Doodling In Math ClassIn earlier posts I presented incredible visual representations of talks by distinguished speakers through RSA Animate technology (look for "RSA Animate" in the keywords to the left). These are excellent and worth watching if you have not had a chance to check them out. Less sophisticated, but rather engaging, is Vi Hart's "Doodling In Math Class" series. Each is only 4-5 minutes long. She has these posted on her blog, but I had more success viewing them on YouTube here. Two I especially liked are embedded below. Your Math and Art teachers will no doubt enjoy these and may be able to use them in instruction. I could envision them being used as the basis of an interdisciplinary lesson, to support Mathematics instruction in Art class. Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, January 3, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Freakiest Places In The Solar SystemDiscover Magazine has a really cool photo gallery entitled, "Freakiest Places in the Solar System." Seems like we all find this stuff fascinating. Students will too! As you educators know, young people love most anything with the word "freaky" in its title! Pass this along to your favorite Science teacher! Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Saturday, January 1, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsSo it is the new year! A time we are all seemingly especially motivated to do something different from the year prior in an effort to somehow improve ourselves. What motivates humans? While the answer to this question is simply too broad and deep for a full explanation here...or perhaps anywhere, RSA Animate illustrates in 10 minutes Dan Pink's longer talk on the subject, entitled "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us." If you enjoy the presentation style, check out other RSA Animate pieces listed in the keywords index to the left of this screen! Posted at 12:38 PM (permalink)
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Monday, December 27, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Blue BeautyA little closer to home...about our home...this PowerPoint is spectacular! Earth from space, with features pointed out and remarkable night/day transition photos. Make sure to let each slide "develop" before clicking through. Science and Social Studies teachers will likely love this! In fact, I bet most all of us can appreciate it! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:05 PM (permalink)
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Friday, December 17, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Secret Powers Of Time"Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He is known for his Stanford prison study and authorship of various introductory psychology books and textbooks for college students, including The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox." The above is how Wikipedia introduces Professor Zimbardo. I became familiar with his work a couple of decades ago when watching a feature on "60 Minutes" about the 1971 Stanford prison study: "...in which 24 normal college students were randomly assigned to be "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison located in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford (three additional college students were selected as alternates, but did not participate in the study). The two week planned study into the psychology of prison life ended only after 6 days due to emotional trauma being experienced by the participants. The students quickly began acting out their roles, with "guards" becoming sadistic and "prisoners" showing extreme passivity and depression." This study was inspired by the work of Stanley Milgram a decade earlier, in 1961 at Yale University. The Milgram Experiment suggested the extent to which humans will follow the directives of authority figures even when it seems at odds with their belief system, their immediate comfort level, or even what most of us consider humane treatment of other human beings. These are two powerful psychology and sociology pieces that, as a teacher, I used in some of my classes in an attempt to suggest how humans are able to perpetrate the awful, even genocidal, events we were studying in government and history. The students really responded to this lesson! They would still be talking about the lesson for weeks afterwards! I recommend these studies highly, however the purpose of this post is to present some of Professor Zimbardo's more recent work. Specifically, RSA Animate (featured in earlier posts) and Professor Zimbardo teamed up to present one of his talks using the really cool RSA Animate presentation style. I just love this RSA Animate stuff! This one gets us to think a lot, including about how we reach others (students, for example) who do not share the same time perspective we follow (most often, subconsciously). Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, December 13, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: RSA Animate (21st Century Enlightenment)One of my new favorite things is a series of animated shorts by RSA Animate of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. RSA has been "a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress" for over 250 years. They describe their approach as "multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action."  In an earlier post I introduced you to perhaps my favorite RSA Animate piece: Changing Education Paradigms. I also posted a similar production by Steve Johnson (not related to RSA), Where Good Ideas Come From, promoting the thesis of his new book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Now, I'd like to introduce you to 21st Century Enlightenment, by Matthew Taylor. It is another exceptional, thought provoking 11-minute piece. Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Saturday, December 11, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Where Good Ideas Come FromA few days ago I posted a cool video from a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson about his perceived need for a genuine paradigm shift in education. Well, the same organization that produced that video, RSA, has produced several other similar videos. Edit: I just discovered that this is not one of them though! Instead, it is done by Steve Johnson as a promo for his book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. It is well-done nonetheless! What a talent it is to even be able to illustrate like this, beyond the other skills and talents evident in this production. Posted at 12:07 PM (permalink)
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Friday, December 10, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: MapsOne other resource on the CNN Student News website I love is the small collection of maps. They are large maps (8x11 at 100% resolution) in pdf format, available for download and free school use. There is a world map and a set of continental maps that look like the first two displayed below. There are also a few regional maps, featuring a key city, like the one of London below. I don't know if they add to or change the collection of these regularly. The available ones are valuable though! As you may or may not know, images in pdf documents can be easily "screen shot" and saved as images for use in presentations and such. If you can't use these in your classroom, I bet you know someone who can! Check It Out! Pass It On!    Posted at 6:30 PM (permalink)
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Friday, December 3, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Think DifferentThis most excellent Apple ad can be used with young people in so many creative ways! It is an important message for them to hear. Click here to download a slightly better copy than the streaming version...or just enjoy the streaming version here! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 5:13 PM (permalink)
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Thursday, December 2, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Academic Word ListThis is a really neat two page document educators in many disciplines are likely to find interesting. Many will also find it useful. If you can't use it, I bet you know a colleague who would really appreciate you Passing It On! The following description is from the top of the document: There is a very important specialized vocabulary for learners intending to pursue academic studies in English at the secondary and post-secondary levels. The Academic Word List, compiled by Coxhead (2000), consists of 570 word families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English but which occur reasonably frequently over a very wide range of academic texts. These 570 words are grouped into ten sublists that reflect word frequency and range. A word like analyze falls into Sublist 1, which contains the most frequent words, while the word adjacent falls into Sublist 10 which includes the least frequent (amongst this list of high incidence and high utility words). The following ten sublists contain the headwords of the families in the Academic Word List. In other words, the ten sublists contain the most frequent form of the word, more often a noun or verb form, although there may be one or more important related word forms. For example, the headword analyze would also include analyst, analytic, analytical and analytically in the word family.
The Academic
Word List is not restricted to a specific field of study. That means that the words are useful
for learners studying in disciplines as varied as literature, science, health,
business, and law. This high
utility academic word list does not contain technical words likely to appear in
only one, specialized field of study such as amortization, petroglyph,
onomatopoeia, or cartilage. Two-thirds
of all academic English words come from Latin, French (through Latin), or
Greek. Understandably, knowledge
of the most high incidence and high utility academic words in English can
significantly boost a student’s comprehension level of school-based reading
material. Secondary students who
are taught these high-utility academic words and routinely placed in contexts
requiring their usage are likely to be able to master academic material with
more confidence and efficiency, wasting less time and energy in guessing words
or consulting dictionaries than those who are only equipped with the most basic
2000-3000 words that characterize ordinary conversation. (The word lists follow the description above) Source: Coxhead, Averil. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterrly, 34, 213-238. Averil Coxhead's website.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: EDS Commercials Here they are, all three in one place. Yes, these three EDS commercials have made the rounds at education conferences and staff developments. If you've never seen them, you are missing out. Download them all from the links below, or just view the embedded versions here! Download them here: Cat Herding Building A Plane In The Sky Running Of The Squirrels Posted at 6:26 PM (permalink)
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Friday, November 26, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Think Before You PostThis is a 40-second PSA with an important message for our young people to see and hear, repeatedly. Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 6:48 PM (permalink)
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Monday, November 22, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Bill of Rights Rock!If you like either James Brown or America, you'll probably enjoy this. If you love them both, you are more likely to just love it! I especially enjoyed the rare footage of a young Abe Lincoln. Only to be outdone by "The Right To Bear Arms." I bet you know a Social Studies teacher who would like it! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:01 PM (permalink)
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Monday, November 22, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Poetry Terminology PowerpointAn English teacher you know would like for you to Check It Out! ...or, at least, Pass It On! This is a pretty simple, but also a pretty useful introduction to basic poetry terminology.  Posted at 1:28 PM (permalink)
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Friday, November 19, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Periodic Table of ElementsThis is a really nice .pdf version of The Periodic Table of Elements. I bet you know a Science teacher (or a few) who might like to receive this from you. Check It Out! Pass It On!  Credit: http://education.jilab.org/ Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 11:19 AM (permalink)
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Why Learn Spanish?I bet your Spanish language teachers will really like this Powerpoint! Maybe this makes up for my earlier post highlighting World Lingo! It makes a fine case for learning Spanish in school, though a couple of the sparsely planted sound effects took me by surprise. Check It Out! ...or, just Pass It On to your Spanish teaching colleagues! credit: Aimtrans1's Docs at teachertube.com Posted at 3:55 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Instructions Commonly Used in Content Area CurriculaInstructions Commonly Used in Content Area Curricula This is a simple document you can download here to Pass It On! to colleagues who may benefit from it.  (from Kate Kinsella, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and College of Education, San Francisco State University) Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:01 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Electing a US President In Plain EnglishThis is a really neat video from Teacher Tube, a place where there is plenty of junk but some hidden jewels. I'll find many of them for you. Check back often! You've probably seen other videos in this series. Blogs in Plain English, is one. Wikis in Plain English, is another. I bet you know some educators (and parents) who would like for you to forward this video on to them! |
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Thinking Skills Mind MapPass It On Education Tools is a recurring feature on this blog. It features educator tools and resources so cool you are likely to pass them along to colleagues and friends! This is an interesting Mind Map of Thinking Skills. It can be downloaded here: Thinking Skills Mind Map  My only credit information is Renetwork from You Tube. Thanks to you, Renetwork! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 7:12 PM (permalink)
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