The power went out right after lunch as often happens during the tropical October months, silencing the much-needed air conditioners. It was a pleasant 85 degrees outside. But in my classroom, without the A/C’s expensive fight, it quickly reached the upper nineties. You see, the building I was in, only six years old, was designed [...]
Bumped into this excellent info-graphic the other day along with a great question/answer:
Daddy, why are there wars? “Because some people are just plain evil, m’boy! Just plain evil.”
Complete post here. Hat tip to Curt Lindsay over at http://cantseetheforest.org/
While Americans complain about the price of gas, many other nations pay considerably more. If you look [...]
This has got to be Will Ferrell’s best impersonation of President Bush. Man he’s good.
How many days are left?
In the previous post I wrote about how schools are helping create a population of students and adults vulnerable to demagoguery and commercial exploitation. Through the teaching of subjects, mostly devoid of context and sanitized of relevance, schools continue to do little to equip people to deal with causal chains of any significant length or [...]
I guess one of the few good things about the world having many problems is that it gives teachers many options to choose from when looking for engaging projects. It is hoped, through this project, that students will learn valuable information literacy skills, mathematics, science, political science, writing….and very importantly: that they can be agents [...]
Below you’ll find a project that could be an interesting learning opportunity for any individual/class/school/university… that might want to tackle it. Alas, there are no takers from my school. It could be looked at from the standpoint of wave energy available on Hispaniola, or adapted to any other seashore location. Appropriate wave energy data [...]
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