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- Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me 2020/08/13
- The Bomb, Duck-and-Cover Drills, and You (today, right now) 2020/08/11
- A Two-Track-Option Approach to Teaching and Learning 2020/07/20
- …on what is called “deep learning” 2020/06/24
- Authentic Questions and the Perils of Expertise 2020/06/23
- Podcast Recommendations (assignment) 2020/03/20
- March Madness: Worst Disease in History 2020/03/06
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- I wrote a letter to my naively racist and classist younger self. I hope I get the message and start making changes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
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Category Archives: Rough Ideas and Arguments
Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me
Steve, I’m here to address a problem that you’re going to want to dismiss as soon as you hear it. I’ll cut to the chase. When people talk about systemic racism, you are a part of the system perpetrating the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Teaching Memos
Tagged classism, classist, education, education system, educational system, elitism, ideology, racism, racist, systemic racism, Teaching, teaching all students
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A Two-Track-Option Approach to Teaching and Learning
We can give students most comfortable with predictability and control over tight scheduling one track/option that suits their needs, and we can give students who prefer a flexible, thinking-skill-driven, personalized learning experience that choice as a second track. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Teaching Memos
Tagged choice and voice, critical thinking skill teaching, learning, mastery, mastery-based teaching, pedagogical practice, pedagogical strategies, pedagogy, personal learning, personalized learning, skill-based teaching, skill-mastery teaching, student centered teaching, student choice, student voice, student-centered teaching, Teaching, two-track teaching, voice
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…on what is called “deep learning”
I’ve been taking an online course lately through edX called “Deep Learning Through Transformative Pedagogy” and I’ve already found a mission for academic educators to sort out for us practitioners to improve our teaching outcomes. As an aside, I’ve been … Continue reading
Conference Week, 2019! UCSS and AMLE19
Things are about to get quite a bit [more] interesting for me. Saturday, bright and early, you’ll find me at the Utah Council for the Social Studies (UCSS) presenting a gamified hour on the topic of gamification. Here’s my blurb: … Continue reading
Posted in Conference Presentations, Conference Submissions, Games and Gamification, Rough Ideas and Arguments, Teaching Memos
Tagged American Middle Level Educators, AMLE, AMLE19, board games, conference, Conference Presentations, conferences, game, game night, games, gamification, UCSS, Utah Council for the Social Studies
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The Bomb, Duck-and-Cover Drills, and You (today, right now)
Burt the Turtle is getting old enough that he requires an introduction where for a long time none would have been needed. In the 1950s through the 1980s, there existed a real threat that everything on Earth would end in … Continue reading →