Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2020

Jimmy Casas said: a system which assured [students] of success only to find out [that] meant success for those who were willing to play the game of school and who were compliant. students attended school in body but were absent in mind and in spirit. In other words, they had checked out and were just hanging around the prison yard of lost potential waiting to escape. ( Culturize , p. 24).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey, a rising junior at the University of Missouri, said she doesn’t expect any improvements in the racial climate on her campus in the fall. Credit: Lourdes Torrey. Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She reported it through official channels, she said, but never got so much as an apology — and the white student continued to say the word.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 20, 2020

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is a collection of some good research methodology textbooks to help you develop your research skills. From designing a research plan to writing up the.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 20, 2020

Google Sites is a quick and easy way to make a website. In 2020 a ton of new features were added (including the ability to create a site from a Template). One thing I use a lot when typing text is SHIFT ENTER. What happens when you press Enter in a Google Doc (and other […]. The post Google Sites: Try Shift Enter When Typing appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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MindShift

JUNE 20, 2020

The other day, while my children and I were playing outside, the ball we were throwing accidentally flew out of the yard. Under normal circumstances, I would have opened the gate, and we’d race to see who would get it first. But these aren’t normal circumstances. In South Africa, where we live, a suspected case of COVID-19 was confirmed to have tested positive on March 5.

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MindShift

JUNE 20, 2020

Peaceful, student-led protests have been a powerful force for change throughout American history. In 1925, for example, students at Fisk University staged a 10-week protest to speak out against the school’s president, who didn’t want students starting a chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. In 1940, almost 2,000 students protested after New York University decided to pull a black player from its football roster to accommodate the University of Missouri’s segregationists.

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