Tiny Planet animation video tour – 9/12/2018 – Preparing for Hurricane Florence
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Tiny Planet – 9/12/2018 – Preparations for Hurricane Florence
Yard cleaned up and waiting for Florence
Why aren’t kids being taught to read?
Emily Hanford investigative report for American Public Media. All annotations in context. The stakes were high. Research shows that children who don't learn to read by the end of third grade are likely to remain poor readers for the rest of their lives, and they're likely to fall behind in other academic areas, too.People who struggle…
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
Computer science and the technologies it enables rest at the heart of our economy and the way we live our lives. To be well-educated citizens in a computing-intensive world and to be prepared for careers in the 21st century, our students must have a clear understanding of the principles and practices of computer science. The CSTA…
Drew Spangler on Twitter – Student self-assessment
Students self assessing themselves as they leave PE. We are working on being honest and being better than we were the day before. #hardwork #honesty #bdp3 #kmdolphins #physicaleducation pic.twitter.com/VFKelQyhLL — Drew Spangler (@DSpanglerPE) September 5, 2018
An Avalanche of Speech Can Bury Democracy
Zeynep Tufecki in Politico Magazine. All annotations in context. But in the digital age, when speech can exist mostly unfettered, the big threat to truth looks very different. It’s not just censorship, but an avalanche of undistinguished speech—some true, some false, some fake, some important, some trivial, much of it out-of-context, all burying us. Perhaps…
Teaching in the Age of School Shootings
Jeneen Interlandi in The New York Times. All annotations in context. Teachers were the first responders. Before police officers and medics arrived, they gathered sobbing, vomiting, bleeding kids into the safest rooms they could find, then locked the doors and kept vigil with them through the stunned and terrified wait. They shepherded the injured to…
Social Media Is a Weapon of War
David Axe in Motherboard. All annotations in context. Trump's unlikely rise to the White House was symptomatic of social, political, and technological trends decades in the making—trends that gave rise to the internet and social media and which, in turn, transformed the way we control, spy on, and kill each other. It is interesting to…