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Three movies that inspire me as a teacher (and they don’t take place in school)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream Like a lot of people, I’m a sucker for David and Goliath stories, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a great one. Preston Tucker battles the Big Three automakers in the hopes of producing the “car of the future” with safety features such as disc brakes, seatbelts,…
Sharing: Ashamed
Ashamed — Medium I despise the idea of reducing teachers to beggars. It’s a distraction from all the other important work teachers have to do It reduces their value and the perceived worth of public education with each round of fundraising. The conditions addressed by Donorschoose are not the result of a hurricane or epidemic,…
Sharing: The secret rules of the internet
The secret rules of the internet | The Verge Mora-Blanco sat next to Misty Ewing-Davis, who, having been on the job a few months, counted as an old hand. On the table before them was a single piece of paper, folded in half to show a bullet-point list of instructions: Remove videos of animal abuse….
Spring break is here!
I am going to spend the next few days recharging and I hope you get a chance to recharge too. For help, I’m posting a picture of a kitten… On a beach.
Martian perseverance
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On February 18, 2020, NASA landed the rover Perseverance on Mars. Half of all Mars missions end in failure, who knew it was so hard to land on a planet millions of…
Notification overload
The problem with alerts is that they don’t scale. They create noise. Every time you poke everyone with a bulletin, you’ve taken attention away with no hope of giving it back. Source: Bulletins vs bulletin boards | Seth’s Blog One of the best things you can ever do for yourself is to take control of…