News for today's 2018: 03/26/13

Change is Good, Unless it's Bad

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">Hola y’all! I’m not one of those people who hates change. I don’t normally dread it or fight it. In fact, I welcome change. Hell, I’ve moved like 20 times total in my life so obviously change isn’t that big of a deal to me. Sometimes I make changes in my life just for the hell of it even. In fact, I’m kind of dying to make all kinds of changes right now. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuY1tjgX2zw_7iIc9u23owQG25VIJ-vT71zVZesEJFPnAZ7ZIrjzpwqqN5K2yoI8y6KULzQWKBEgdwOeHXOiI2EzCroV03BPqJEXNTnwM_EBNJYzccwablGJWm4LskVu2sdcc8TlQYDqc/s1600/change.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuY1tjgX2zw_7iIc9u23owQG25VIJ-vT71zVZesEJFPnAZ7ZIrjzpwqqN5K2yoI8y6KULzQWKBEgdwOeHXOiI2EzCroV03BPqJEXNTnwM_EBNJYzccwablGJWm4LskVu2sdcc8TlQYDqc/s320/change.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Over at IWS Radio we’re always changing. We’ve changed the intro oodles of times and …. AND …. it might be changed again this week. Who knows how many new segments we’ll come up with and then just casually forget to do again stop doing for whatever reason over the next few months? Change is good! Change keeps things fresh! Change keeps us from getting into a rut and just doing the same thing over and over and over. <br />  <div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This week, I was FORCED to change banks. My bank, Bank of America, sold all their branches in my area to Arvest. I was a little bummed by this because this was change I never asked for or wanted. Luckily, it involved little to no action on my part though. The switchover went off without a hitch and now I have a new bank! I get to go into the new branches and check out all the babes working the counter and maybe even take out a loan just for the fun of it. See? Change is good! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Sometimes though, people or companies make changes that just don’t work. Then they try to make it all better by making MORE changes. Worse than that, a lot times their changes are for no reason and have no real plan behind them. This never works out well. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A great example of bad people who make bad changes all the time is Tumblr. Every single time they make changes, their site becomes less useful. It’s almost as if they do focus groups of Tumblrs to find out what features they like most and then say “Let’s get rid of those features immediately!” Granted I’ve been hating on Tumblr lately, but it just annoys me so much! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Facebook loves to make changes too. I don’t have the NEW Facebook yet. Well, I guess I don’t. The last time they made changes lots of people said they hated it, but I liked it. I like the ticker over on the upper right and easily ignore the ads just to the right of the News Feed. The thing about Facebook’s changes is that they tend to reset everyone’s settings to some default that nobody wants when they make changes. Also, they love to tell me that they “removed” someone from my ticker or feed because I’m not interacting with them much. Yo, big brother, I’ll decide who is on my feed and who isn’t, thank you very much! Also, why do I always have to reset my feed to “Most Recent” several times a day? Haven’t you notice that I do that ALL the time? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But, when it comes to making bad changes, NOBODY beats Twitter! It seems like every change they make sucks. Recently they made the suckiest change of all. They decided to kill TweetDeck. Well, not completely. Very soon TweetDeck will not work as a separate desktop program. It will only work within your browser. Yes, there will still be a TweetDeck, but it won’t be as useful and won’t have all the same features. I get that Twitter can do whatever they want with their products, but I don’t get the theory behind making them less easy and fun to use! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So, my point is, and I do have one, change isn’t bad. Change is something that should be embraced and even done willingly. But, there has to be a plan and it has to be for the better. Lots of software companies seem to forget the “for the better” part. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws">@Jayman_IWS </a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SCHMOOPALICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </div></div>

Change is Good, Unless it's Bad

Hola y’all! I’m not one of those people who hates change. I don’t normally dread it or fight it. In fact, I welcome change. Hell, I’ve move...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light

3:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<img alt="MoMA-Labrouste1.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste1.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy" /><br />[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy]<br /><br />About a week ago I visited the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to check out the exhibition <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1319"><i>Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light</i></a>, on display in the third floor's special exhibition's gallery until June 24, 2013. The exhibition has received a good deal of attention since it opened in early March, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/arts/design/henri-labrouste-at-the-museum-of-modern-art.html">most notably by Michael Kimmelman at the New York Times</a>. Below are some photos I took and some of my impressions on the show, though readers in need of a bit more depth on the exhibition should read Kimmelman's piece.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8558645529/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="437" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8365/8558645529_e2c203a661_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Photos by John Hill, unless noted otherwise]<br /><br />MoMA bills the show as "the first solo exhibition of Labrouste’s work in the United States." It took long enough, considering that Labrouste died in 1875. It's not for lack of importance or influence, since the architect's two main projects (really, what he is only known for by most)—the <a href="http://www-bsg.univ-paris1.fr/">Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève</a> and the <a href="http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html">Bibliothèque Nationale</a>, both in Paris—were seen as precursors of 20th-century modernism by the likes of Sigfried Giedion in MoMA's early days.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8558646269/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8518/8558646269_870ae7c983_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The exhibition is curated by MoMA's Barry Bergdoll, with Corinne Bélier of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine and Marc Le Coeur of the Bibliothèque Nationale, where it was first displayed. Given its location in the third floor galleries, the first impression of the show is not a positive one—visitors must traverse a narrow, linear (and often crowded) gallery that leads to the larger spaces beyond. This first section (above) is being given extra weight by Bergdoll, through his assertion that Labrouste's early restoration studies of Paestum, Italy, "shook up academic dogma," as he says in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870708392/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0870708392&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">exhibition catalog</a>. The many drawings (and Labrouste's drawing instruments, a nice treat) in the corridor are worth beholding, but they create an arterial clog of sorts in the exhibition that is not relieved until moving through the glass doors at the other end. (The photo of the corridor, above, was taken on my way out, in a slow moment.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8558646529/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8226/8558646529_ec2865ff53_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />While the beautiful photos of the two libraries (on top of this post and below my exhibition photos) are the primary means by which the exhibition is being shared in the media, the show is predominantly drawings and a few models. The drawings—many of them watercolors—are astounding, illustrating Labrouste's skill as a delineator but also his thorough working out of details, from stone decoration to structural ironwork to the insertion of modern services into the library. And one of the show's main statements is that Labrouste is an early Modern (with a capital M) architect, due to his use of modern materials (iron, concrete) and systems and the way in which his libraries defined the modern institution.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8559754792/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="800" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8528/8559754792_7b98f2f2c9_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br />The framing of Labrouste as an early modern architect doesn't necessarily come to the fore in the first of the larger exhibition spaces, pictured above. Drawings are displayed on retro, pseudo-drafting tables. The legs made of wood spheres are a bit goofy, but the surfaces make for comfortable viewing of drawings and even videos (visible in the foreground of the photo above). The post-modern nature of the tables comes across in the fact that many of the drawings do not rest on the rails at the bottom of each table; they are mounted above.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8559755240/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8559755240_02395fe9cb_z.jpg" width="524" /></a><br /><br />Some more historical allusions come in the portal at the beginning of the exhibition and another in a wall separating two of the larger galleries; one side shows his libraries and the other side displays projects of successors influenced by Labrouste. The photo above is looking toward the latter, as if the stacks (the same sort of structural system used at the New York Public Library that Norman Foster and NYPL want to remove) are the most modern aspect of Labrouste's libraries. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8558645923/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="607" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8110/8558645923_686d45b3aa_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Model of Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève]<br /><br />To be honest, I always have a hard time keeping the Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque Nationale straight. Their designs are quite different, even though they are both grand spaces structured in iron and light—one is a long vaulted space and one is made up of a series of skylit vaults. But remembering which is which has always been hard for me, though don't ask me why. The exhibition will help refresh my learning from undergrad, but of course the value of the show goes well beyond something like this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8559755908/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="429" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8559755908_74f01bcb28_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Model of Bibliothèque Nationale]<br /><br />When I visited MoMA to see the exhibition I ran into a couple professors from my <i>alma mater</i>, Kansas State University. They were part of a school trip that took third-year students from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan,_Kansas">Little Apple</a> to the Big Apple; many of their students were taking in the Labrouste exhibition as we spoke. In hindsight the exhibition is perfect for students: It illustrates a sort of "everything is contemporary at some time" aspect to Labrouste's architecture, while also driving home the importance of hand drawing in conveying ideas and exploring design and construction. The latter may be an increasingly archaic notion, but divorcing hand drawing from architecture doesn't seem right to me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/8559755684/" title="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8559755684_dd736e36af_z.jpg" width="569" /></a><br />[Model of Bibliothèque Nationale]<br /><br />The models are also valuable artifacts for students to see. Sure, they were made much later than Labrouste's drawings, but they do an excellent job of showing the various conditions (structure, services, systems) that are behind and below the surfaces that have rightfully attracted so much attention over the years.<br /><br />For those <i>really</i> interested in Labrouste's libraries, MoMA is hosting (with Columbia GSAPP) a symposium on Thursday: <a href="http://events.gsapp.org/event/revising-labrouste-in-the-digital-age-symposium"><i>Read: Revisiting Labrouste in the Digital Age</i></a>. Participants include Barry Bergdoll, Alberto Kalach, Dominique Perrault, Anthony Vidler, and many others.<br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste2.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy" /><br />[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy]<br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste3.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste3.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy" /><br />[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy]<br /><br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste4.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste4.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy" /><br />[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy]<br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste5.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste5.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy" /><br />[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy]<br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste6.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste6.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste (French, 1801-1875). Imaginary reconstruction of an ancient city. Perspective view. Date unknown. Graphite, pen, ink and watercolor on paper. Académie d’Architecture, Paris" /><br />[Henri Labrouste (French, 1801-1875). Imaginary reconstruction of an ancient city. Perspective view. Date unknown. Graphite, pen, ink and watercolor on paper. Académie d’Architecture, Paris]<br /><br /><img alt="MoMA-Labrouste7.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/MoMA-Labrouste7.jpg" title="Henri Labrouste (1801-1875). Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1838-1850. Southwest corner: elevation and section. Late 1850. Pen, ink, graphite, wash and watercolor on paper. Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris" /><br />[Henri Labrouste (1801-1875). Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1838-1850. Southwest corner: elevation and section. Late 1850. Pen, ink, graphite, wash and watercolor on paper. Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris]

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light

[Henri Labrouste. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. 1854–75. View of the reading room. © Georges Fessy] About a week ago I visited the Museum o...

Wang Shu Lecture

11:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

On April 2 Wang Shu, the 2012 Pritzker Prize winner and partner at <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/amateur/">Amateur Architecture Studio</a>, is speaking at <a href="http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/lecture-2012-pritzker-prize-laureate-wang-shu">The Cooper Union</a>, in a lecture co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. See below for more information.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPn8BS5v-glQjvXf6TlV0iQa9XSAYsMTgR19OpQQsjfFwYRBMMnTKfsH0_qiv7-pjAMJmHRKXB0IQ4Ar_gfk1gKwA0Rs2DpTy78JsUc0H1YsI0p_NKwEbQ_1o57_eLhWGnYoe6ogOCfqb9/s1600/399.jpg" /><br />[ Ningbo History Museum | Photo: Lv Hengzhong] <br /><blockquote><b>Current Work: Wang Shu / Amateur Architecture Studio</b><br /><br />Wang Shu and his wife, Lu Wenyu, founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 in  Hangzhou, China. The name of the office refers to the approach of an  amateur builder—one based on spontaneity, craft skills, and cultural  traditions. In order to learn traditional skills, Wang Shu spent the  early part of his career working on building sites. Rather than looking  toward the West for inspiration, Wang’s work is rooted firmly in the  context of Chinese history and culture. Today the studio incorporates  Wang’s knowledge of everyday techniques to adapt and transform materials  for contemporary projects. The “unique combination of traditional  understanding, experimental building tactics, and intensive research”  has become fundamental to the office’s architectural projects.<br /><br />Some  of his most important built works include the Library of Wenzheng  College, Suzhou University; Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum; the  Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art; and the Ningbo History  Museum.<br /><br />Wang Shu is the <a href="http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2012">2012 Pritzker Prize</a>  laureate, the first Chinese citizen to receive that honor. He is  Professor and Head of the Architecture School at China Academy of Art,  Hangzhou. In 2011, he became the first Chinese Kenzo Tange Visiting  Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge,  Massachusetts.</blockquote>Tickets can be obtained <a href="http://archleague.org/2013/04/wang-shu/">via the Architectural League</a>. For those unable to make it to NYC for this lecture, Wang Shu is also speaking on <a href="http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/events/lectures">April 3 at the Yale School of Architecture</a>.

Wang Shu Lecture

On April 2 Wang Shu, the 2012 Pritzker Prize winner and partner at Amateur Architecture Studio , is speaking at The Cooper Union , in a lect...

Turning Elementary Computer labs into STEM labs: A welcome change?

8:37 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.theann.com/WMBK/1ErvinJarrett.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.theann.com/WMBK/1ErvinJarrett.gif" /></a></div><h3>Elementary STEM Lab Teacher, Kevin Jarrett</h3>Recently, elementary <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.stemedcoalition.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="STEM">STEM</a> lab teacher <a href="http://about.me/kjarrett">Kevin Jarrett</a> (@<a href="https://twitter.com/kjarrett">kjarrett</a>) and researcher Dr. Jeremy Irvin (@<a href="http://www.twitter.com/@dr_jeremy_ervin">dr_jeremy_ervin </a>) spent some time sharing the story of the transformation of an elementary computer lab into a STEM lab at Kevin's school on <a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=91&layout=blog&Itemid=259">my podcast</a>.. They are using the curriculum "<a href="http://www.eie.org/eie/">Engineering is Elementary</a>." What he's doing is powerful and important and I wish every school would follow this model.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/files/2013/03/Untitled2-500x342.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/files/2013/03/Untitled2-500x342.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at <a href="http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/">the blog </a>where Kevin documents learning<br />with his students and communicates needs and<br />objectives with parents.</td></tr></tbody></table><h3>Blogging to share Learning and Lead</h3>Take time to review his <a href="http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/">NCS Stemlab blog</a> where he shares engineering, math, science, and technology with parents and mobilizes everyone to action. (He says he posts what he needs and almost immediately receives it on his desk the next day.)<br /><br /><h3>How you can listen to the show</h3>Listen to the show "Creative Approaches to Teaching STEM at the Elementary School Level" on <a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=91&layout=blog&Itemid=259">Every Classroom Matters</a> (BAM Radio Network) <a href="http://www.jackstreet.com/jackstreet/WECM.ErvinJarrettt.cfm">Listen </a> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/every-classroom-matters-cool/id606677009">Itunes  </a>  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/BAM-Radio-Network/137305499663569?sk=app_2373072738">Comment</a><br /><br />If you want to subscribe via your podcast app (see my <a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-every-classroom-matters-show-and.html">iCatcher tutorial</a>) here's the <a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=91&layout=blog&Itemid=259&format=feed&type=rss">RSS link</a> to the show.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8489076936_d1e7c9ba77.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8489076936_d1e7c9ba77.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kevin uses the <a href="http://www.eie.org/eie/">Engineering is Elementary </a>STEM curriculum.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3>How much money did they spend?</h3>They use Google chromebooks and money from a $3,000 grant to get things set up, but besides that, they didn't really spend much money.<br /><br /><h3>Essential Questions</h3>As you take time to <a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=91&layout=blog&Itemid=259">listen to the show</a>, ask these guiding questions.<br /><br /><ul><li>Does the name "computer lab" restrict what we think we should do in it? </li><li>Is a STEM lab core or enrichment?</li><li>How would implementing a STEM lab at the elementary level impact a school? How did it impact Kevins?</li></ul><br /><br />We need STEM labs not computer labs but remember that the technology is an important component. His kindergartners are using <a class="zem_slink" href="http://docs.google.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Google Docs">Google Docs</a> and all kinds of technology. If your students transferred to his school, could they keep up? Would they want to go back to your classroom after spending time there? If you're worried with your answers, then, perhaps you should consider being part of the vision of moving forward with STEM in your school.<br /><br />I talked with my curriculum director, headmaster, and a few board members and said if I had one wish for our elementary, it would be a STEM lab for the elementary school.<br />  <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=0181e6e0-d19a-4018-a4ee-ba32613cb923" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

Turning Elementary Computer labs into STEM labs: A welcome change?

Elementary STEM Lab Teacher, Kevin Jarrett Recently, elementary STEM lab teacher Kevin Jarrett (@ kjarrett ) and researcher Dr. Jeremy Irv...

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/26/2013

2:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="https://www.diigo.com/list/dgburris/common-core-curriculum-resources">Common Core Curriculum Resources - List | Diigo</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Darren Burris, a math teacher at Boston Collegiate Charter School, has a list of 186 items for Common Core Resources on his Diigo list. He's someone you'll want to follow on Diigo.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/commoncore">commoncore</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_trends">edu_trends</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/teach-plus/the-quantified-student_b_1975052.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvqXMZKXonjHpfsX56+wlUKO0lMI/0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DTcNnI/qLAzICFpZo2FFMH+6YfZJL6Q==">Teach Plus: The Quantified Student</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Fascinating article from a teacher thriving in the standardized testing environment. Fascinating.  "Last year, working with the same cohort of students (by then fifth graders), I tried to find more learning opportunities that focused on data. We used math websites like TenMarks that enable students to learn about their own learning even as they practice new skills. We analyzed information graphics and dove into ways of presenting numerical information. We explored how numbers shape our understanding of ourselves and the world. And much of their enthusiasm and curiosity for these tasks came out of their interest in numbers from standardized testing.  I've thus come to believe there's a role for standardized testing within education. As a limited portion of a multiple measure evaluation system, it helps teachers understand how well we've taught over the course of a year. It also helps students understand how much they mastered over that year and makes them agents in their own learning."</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/testing">testing</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/data">data</a>            <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/26/2013

Common Core Curriculum Resources - List | Diigo Darren Burris, a math teacher at Boston Collegiate C...

Easter is coming!

2:02 AM Tukiyooo 0

Easter is coming and I have 4 blissful days off work over the holiday.  Ciaran is heading to Galway for a tournament. My twin sister is coming to stay with me over the weekend.  We plan to relax in the hot tub, go out for a nice meal and chill out! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73frES7a_W8ARtaKzne7Oxl9q1aDtoH1vuBKGb58a8EnjOVuVr5jb0XboS5vPbgnSbPuZnUvGwpnsarfOETvOjB0NMUDTlZ-V3wlUMz2sOofGmEIYXnt5hO4DeiHYHa35kFhH10RxiVzc/s640/blogger-image-604714540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73frES7a_W8ARtaKzne7Oxl9q1aDtoH1vuBKGb58a8EnjOVuVr5jb0XboS5vPbgnSbPuZnUvGwpnsarfOETvOjB0NMUDTlZ-V3wlUMz2sOofGmEIYXnt5hO4DeiHYHa35kFhH10RxiVzc/s640/blogger-image-604714540.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-WKJhsHSbnY8fF9g31fJ08vZvBoL8aMmurMDBC_Ffis2KwifhtfvCfw_IX0utXT0j21hvE4OXssgTe5b3v5foiPSCXrk6DueqHRAfNTJQzOZKdr-TcVG9fnKh5VbNQuIMrMDb5aD8pVu/s640/blogger-image-48097066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-WKJhsHSbnY8fF9g31fJ08vZvBoL8aMmurMDBC_Ffis2KwifhtfvCfw_IX0utXT0j21hvE4OXssgTe5b3v5foiPSCXrk6DueqHRAfNTJQzOZKdr-TcVG9fnKh5VbNQuIMrMDb5aD8pVu/s640/blogger-image-48097066.jpg" /></a></div>