The birds have found the feeder. We moved it and a suet holder closer to the house this winter since the trees that used to shelter them were cut down over the summer. I was afraid that their proximity to the house might frighten the birds, but it has not been a problem. In fact, it has made it easier to watch the birds as they feed.
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I received the following email that I would like to share with the greater public community. The announcement of Matt's Safe School Law brings to fruition the work of many child and student advocates who would like to bring an end to bullying as documented in my blog from March 2, 2011 and told in a summary that I provided in the Fall 2008 issue of Colleagues magazine (pp. 8-9).
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In the spring of 2005, when my youngest son A.J. took our state's high-stakes standardized test, the MEAP, (now the MME) he had an ax to grind. Unfortunately, no one really knew how angry he was until after he took the exam. I received a call from the principal requesting a meeting.
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The end? Well, not exactly. Scratch that - not at all. I thought I was going to be writing about the amazing time I had in Atlanta, Georgia the at the NYLC National Service-Learning Conference. I mean, how pumped up can a person in my line or work feel surrounded by thousands of others who are as excited or even more crazy about service-learning? But there was something in the air the whole time we were celebrating.
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http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/guest-post-robert-lane-greene-on-language-sticklers/
When reading this post, I was struck with Greene's idea that more Americans are writing today (versus a century ago) because technology is providing new venues for us to write. He writes,
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Below is a link to an op-ed piece by Diane Ravitch, a well known educational historian and former assistant secretary of education under President Ronald Reagan, the misperception of whose legacy has made him a darling of the right (see here).
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Recently the College of Education Inclusion Committee hosted an event centered on the movie Bullied. This movie, available for free to educators here, was produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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I was recently part of a discussion of educators from all walks of life – new, novice, elementary, secondary, higher education – and the topic turned to nursery rhymes and someone mentioned that with today’s “results driven” requirements and assessment-based measurements, nursery rhymes were rarely, if ever, taught in schools anymore.
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The recent case of Fox v. Traverse City Area Public Schools (2010 WL 1948203) serves as a good reminder that the speech of public school employees is not always “protected speech” as most of us have come to understand that term in the context of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Jan 25
2010
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It is commonly known that some professions - like those in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields - have traditionally been typecast as 'masculine,' with women often being socialized away from these areas in our patriarchic, male-dominated society. Likewise, some careers - like nursing and K-12 education - have been viewed as traditonally 'female' work.
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Jan 25
2010
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Not all students own computers ... even now!Posted by: Deepak Subramony Tagged in: technology , poverty
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In my last blog entry I talked about a prevalent opinion among young people I teach that the whole brouhaha over the Digital Divide may be nothing more than a Clinton-era left-wing invention (just like Climate Change!). So I was intrigued to see the following article in the Grand Rapids Press, citing this year’s annual survey by the Campus Computing Project:
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Nov 08
2009
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Is the "Digital Divide" just Left-Wing propaganda?Posted by: Deepak Subramony Tagged in: technology , politics and education
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As an educational technologist whose specific area of interest lies in the attitudes and experiences of minority learners with educational and communications technologies (ECT), the concept of the "Digital Divide" - with all of its dimensions: the haves and the have-nots, the knowers and the know-nots, the doers and the do-nots (Tapscott, 2000) - has drawn much of my scholarly and professional attention over the years.
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Jun 15
2009
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Are "modernization" and "westernization" synonyms? Is "modern" technology essentially a "western" - i.e. Euro-American - invention? These are important questions for students and teachers to consider, especially in today's rapidly globalizing socioeconomic milieu.
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Jun 15
2009
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Classroom Visual Aids Have a Sell-by Date!Posted by: Deepak Subramony Tagged in: technology , culture
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As educators assigned with teaching the same or similar courses year after year, it is inevitable that we will reuse/recycle some instructional materials from course to course. This is especially true with foundational courses, since the fundamentals of the field rarely change much between one semester and the next. However, that being said, it still remains our duty to ensure that, in reusing course materials, we don't exhibit the kind of professional complacence/sloppiness that invites ridicule from our students!
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Jun 02
2009
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Those working in the field of multicultural education recognize that there are diverse ways in which human beings are diverse ... culture, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and so on. And when these multiple diversities interact, they produce patterns of breathtaking complexity reminiscent of fractal geometry.
