Category: random
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Identity, Bias, Differences and Change
In his Velocity 2014 New York Ignite talk titled, “Unicorns and The Language of Otherness” Aneel Lakhani makes some thought provoking points about identity. At 4:04 of the video he states: We have to separate our identities, who we are and who we will be, from who we were, what we have done, and what we…
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Don’t Equate Competency With Identity
The tendency to stereotype, define, and “put someone in a box” may be universal in our U.S. culture. Lots of people seem to have an innate desire to label others. Adults may sometimes think this is a youth behavior, or just something kids do at school, but I think many (if not most) adults follow the same…
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Long Term Sub Needed: Positive Tomorrows of Oklahoma City
If you are or know a certified teacher interested in a GREAT and challenging long-term sub position in Oklahoma City, please contact or have them contact Positive Tomorrows as soon as possible. Positive Tomorrows is a FANTASTIC private school in Oklahoma City exclusively serving homeless students and families. My wife, Shelly, teaches 3rd and 4th…
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Distressed Over the Rising Costs of College (and other things)
If you are not distressed over the rising costs of college in the United States, you are not paying attention. When I worked at the College of Education at Texas Tech University from 2001 to 2006, my first and WONDERFUL boss (Fred Hartmeister) used to compare the skyrocketing costs of a graduate course during the…
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Free Play and Our Overscheduled Lives
Consider these words from Peter Gray, author of “Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life:” Free play is nature’s means of teaching children that they are not helpless. In play, away from adults, children really do have control and can practice…
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We Love our Transportation Play Town Rug by Kidcarpet.com
(This post is sponsored by Kidcarpet.com. In compliance with 2013 FTC .com Disclosures, the author discloses he was given an 8′ x 8.6′ “Total Transportation Play Town Rug” by Kidcarpet.com to create this review. See the author’s blog disclosure policy for additional details.) I love playing on the floor with kids. In school classrooms, classrooms…
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Guerrilla Health Message Marketing
Guerrilla marketing can work for health education campaigns. This sticky note was left in a men’s bathroom in the College of Education at the University of Central Oklahoma today. I am not sure if a student club or class is doing this. It was effective: I read it, and now you did too! – Posted…
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Track your baby’s every move with Baby Connect
We have several new babies in our extended family, and today I learned about a new app my cousins are using to track the activities and development of their first child. http://www.baby-connect.com/ Baby Connect is a web app and an iOS app. Log times your baby eats, mom nurses and pumps, diaper changes, hours of…
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IMPACT Oklahoma Grant Workshop 2010 Notes
These are my notes from the February 4, 2010, informational meeting held by IMPACT Oklahoma at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. I’m here on behalf of our Storychasers nonprofit and the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices oral history / digital storytelling project. MY COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS DURING THIS WORKSHOP ARE IN ALL CAPS BELOW. According to the…
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Some recent notable pics and reflections
I love to take photos. My iPhone is the best digital camera I’ve ever owned, because it is almost ALWAYS with me. Here are a few recent photos I’ve snapped which have seemed notable for different reasons. These are all posted to my Flickr account. I found this juxtaposition of the high-tech digital and the…