Search results for: “human rights”
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Discussing ClassenSAS Future at Northeast Academy in OKCPS
Today Shelly and I spent 2 1/2 hours at Northeast Academy in Oklahoma City Public Schools, attending an OKCPS sponsored information event for parents, students and families. On January 22, 2019, OKCPS district officials presented the “Pathway to Greatness” proposal at the monthly board meeting, which includes 3 different options for closing, consolidating, and relocating…
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Arab Spring and the 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout
In this post, I’ll summarize a few key ideas I’ve been thinking about over in the past week as we’ve had the start of a populist uprising in our state reminiscent of other eras when activists have taken to the streets to change government, both here in the USA and in other countries. I pray…
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Interactive Google Earth Updates and Map Tools: Solar System Exploration and Nuclear War
In this week’s EdTech Situation Room podcast (tomorrow/Wednesday evening at 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain) I’m going to share several new space related features in Google Earth as well as some new Google Maps mashups (at least new to me) that can be used in the classroom to interactively explore and discuss current…
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Cautiously Optimistic About Iran and United States Relations
I’m cautiously optimistic about Iranian and United States relations in the wake of the July 14th announcement by President Obama of the Iranian Nuclear deal and his hour long press conference yesterday focusing primarily on that accord. We live in the day of 140 character information bites, but I encourage you to fully watch both these…
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Speech Tournament Naps, iPod Policies, Laptop Lockdowns and Student Inspiration #cwf2010
Yesterday and today my son and I spent quite a few hours at Putnam City North High School, northwest of Oklahoma City, at their annual speech and debate tournament. I snapped these photos today in the student commons area. Weekend tournaments can be tiring! Some of the students on our team didn’t leave Friday night…
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English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders #collab21
These are my notes from Ruslana Westerlund‘s keynote presentation “English learners in the digital age: natives, immigrants or outsiders” at the “Co-teaching and Collaboration Conference” in St Paul, Minnesota on 12 Nov 2010, at the School Community of Excellence. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Ruslana’s website: http://ellbillofrights.com Facebook: Educators of English Learners…
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China, Democracy, Charter 8 and Liu Xiaobo
Students in your class are likely to know at least a little bit about China and the concept of democracy, but do they know about Charter 8 and Liu Xiaobo? They should, and so should we as educators. Liu is this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and his courage to publicly sign Charter…
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Mexico Cleaning up Police Corruption?
I’ve watched the news with considerable interest in the past few years as Mexico’s incredibly high levels of drug related violence continue to make headlines. When I lived in Mexico City in 1992-93 and wrote both “Mexican Security” and “U.S. Drug Control in the Americas: Time for a Change” (2 of my 4 Fulbright-funded papers…
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Skirky and Pink on Cognitive Surplus, Motivation & Social Media
Via: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_pink_shirky/all/1 Pink: I think our nature is to be active and engaged. I’ve never seen a 2-year-old or a 4-year-old who’s not active and engaged. That’s how we are out of the box. And if you begin with this presumption, you create much more open, flexible arrangements that almost inevitably lead to greater satisfaction…
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New Oklahoma Digital Stories: Integration, Boy Scouting, Italian Food Festivals and Planting Trees
This week another fantastic group of Oklahoma educators completed our 2.5 day Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling workshop, this time at Lowrey School about 30 minutes north of Tahlequah. Lowrey is one of the most innovative public schools in our state, with a 1:1 laptop program for students in grades 3-8. We have over 530…