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  • Diversity Conference Forum

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    The Middle Georgia Diversity in Education Conference will be held at Georgia College on March 24, 2014. Dr. Thomas M. Philip of the UCLA Graduate School of Education will be the keynote speaker:  Beyond Disaggregation: Examining and Addressing Racialization in Classrooms and Schools. The url for  conference information and registration is http://diversityconference.gcsu.edu.  At Georgia College…

  • Teaching research methodology

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    This is a blog post I made after class, which started out as an email to a student who had to be absent. Like most successful students, she views the purpose of class as imparting information and asked me what information she had missed. Part of my role as an instructor is to pry students’…

  • what’s up with this?

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    How am I going to write about this topic which makes me so very angry? What is it we think we’re doing as educators? This is for real, it affects children’s lives. If teachers don’t do the best for kids, they are harmed, and if a ghetto child gets poor teaching 3 years in a…

  • Vygotsky and On-Line Learning

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    I’m in the midst of commenting on grad students’ lit reviews submitted electronically. This is our online class for the week. Many students profusely thank me for “helping” them. I reply that what I’m doing is teaching. Of course this is a different paradigm of teaching, one made possible by e-learning. Specifically what I do…

  • Common Core State Standards

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    I’ve just started researching the history of CCSS and standards in general because I’ll be teaching a special topics class about them. In the pre-standards days, textbooks determined curriculum. I started teaching  high school in the 80’s, and when I asked the department chair what the curriculum for earth science was, he said, "Well you…

  • Educational research in the service of children and youth

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    I’ve had a bit of an epiphany in the last few days. It started when I attended an NSTA regional conference for science teachers. All anyone could talk about was standards, especially Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). I attended a forum on NGSS and diversity. I left skeptical. The only ones who are likely to…

  • Social practice theories

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    My intellectual commitments derive from Jean Lave, Courtney Cazden, Fred Erickson, Kris Gutierrez–social practice theory. Linguists such as James Crashen come to the same conclusion from a different angle.  Teachers who  actually use an alternate definition of learning in their classrooms see students thrive as learners. That makes the scholarly work worthwhile. How then do…

  • Equity and learning

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    The issue of tracking-streaming-leveling, whatever you call it, is a knotty one. One thing we know for pretty much certain is that tracking hurts kids on the bottom. Once a child is placed in the bottom level, it’s almost impossible for them leave it, because opportunity to learn is decreased for the low-track students. I…

  • Namaste

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    All of what I write here will be bullshit. Still, I’m going to write it. It seems the Divine Shakti has inspired it. This is no claim to be special, since anything anyone does is through the inspiration of the Divine Shakti. In fact, I’m told by my teacher that anything anyone does is an…

  • Science Education for All. I Mean it: Each and All

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    I’m reading Larry Cuban’s new book, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice, which has a chapter on the history of science education reform. (Note the subtitle, Change without Reform in American Education.) He quotes Jonathan Osborne, who points out that the goals of science education appear to be contradictory. Are we aiming to produce…