Do Now: FML. It’s still 5 days until Spring Break, and you just can’t wait for that mojito on the beach. You can hear the Beach Boys already, the sway of palm trees against the warm breeze, the steady roll of the waves. You want nothing more than a beach towel and an excuse to [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 3, 2009
The Wiki Classroom
A new generation requires a new way of teaching, thinking, and learning. It is readily apparent when you walk down the streets and see kids nonchalantly changing music on their Ipods while simultaneously texting their friends and rapidly readjusting to look up the nearest ice cream place on their Iphone. The world has fundamentally changed, [...]
April 1, 2009
Day 130 AIM: How can I incorporate Top 40 songs into my lessons?
Do Now: Be creative, but also be subtle. Remember, any fool can lather their students with T-Pain or Lil Wayne lyrics, but that just seems like pandering in the end, and nobody wants that. The trick to any lyricist is to insinuate identity through a weaving of ideas and verse. Joan Baez would have made [...]
