Just Me: Tales from A Teacher

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Image of the Day

Pacific Ring of Fire 2004 Expedition. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration; Dr. Bob Embley, NOAA PMEL, Chief Scientist.

Friday, March 27, 2009

2 + 2 = 5

An article on how technology can not just impede on education, but bring it to a full stop.

Kids still need to learn how to add, subtract, multiply, and so on - BEFORE they pick up the calculators! If we start giving them calculators from age 5 on, they're not doing anything but going through the motions - learning which buttons to push. There's no active construction of mathematical knowledge going on there. We all should know that: I purposely use calculators because it makes my life easier. And I pay for it too - after years of having technology do it for me? I'm a lot slower at simple mathematical operations than I used to be.

Imagine if this was the only way we ever had done math: how would we ever continue to advance mathematical knowledge?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Image of the Day: Signs of Spring

Image by Flickr User Muffet, Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Image of the Day

Kelley Elliot, Hidden Ocean 2005 Expedition: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration.

Expect the Unexpected.

Oy! My little one's been sick and I've gotten buried under work as a result. Thinking I'm finally making my way out.

Lots to talk about! Education speeches, some stories from local schools, and more. Hoping to get up and running again this week. Thanks for sticking around!

In the meantime...Twitter. I tried to get into it but it's not catching on for me just yet. Not sure why yet. Lack of a functional cell phone? Too time consuming? Maybe just because I'm long-winded and 140 characters is awfully constricting. But some interesting uses of it nonetheless: Job searching. Police keeping people updated on local crimes. And the coolest: Getting a peek inside brain surgery.