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Two things today to help get my students a bit more involved. First, I would like to see more comments on my class blog. Based on the fun of twitter points I decided to create “Blogball”: Here’s the rules. There’s no hard curriculum here. I would just like to see my students communicating there a [...]

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Tonight in my Ed. Admin class the professor started off the conversation with this question: “Should students be allowed to use their laptops in class?” I assumed that he meant high school students in their high school classes. I began arguing for why, and how if you don’t change how you’re teaching then it doesn’t [...]

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I started my day off with this: These two students were participating in a day of silence to bring attention to abortion issues. As much as I disagree with their point of view, and I couldn’t disagree more, I was totally stoked to see young people getting involved in something that they believe in. And [...]

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Something I haven’t done since my first year of teaching is to survey my students to see how I’m doing. While I was in college I was 100% sure that the surveys we filled out at the end of the class were being diligently read by one staffer that had been hired just for the [...]

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The other day I saw this on the dy/dan blog: 22nd Amendment from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo. Which led me to make an offer to my government students. Three students took me up on it and I’m happy with how things came out: and I think my favorite part is the connection that the students [...]

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