Today was our first day back. Wait. Let me try again. Today was our first day back! The increase in exclamation points tripled this past year. But mental exclamation points serve to keep us going. We are only as positive as our punctuation, people. All in all, a really good day. Woke up at 3:45AM… Read More That's not a mouse.
Last week I related to my students, a small table group, about how I explained the theme(s) of the original Cinderella to a grown-up that morning. I pontificated on those themes with this group, verbosely elaborating the bigger ideas of dysfunctional, blended families, distracted or neglectful parents, father/daughter relationships , and the price of greed (it… Read More Cinderella, Minecraft, and Secret Super Ninja Powers
This author has quite a thesis: Want to save the world? Play video games: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/02/07/tech-report-good-news-society-needs-you/ This is link to her TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html Her thesis, that in the game world, we achieve, we overcome, we are better than our “real” selves, is a premise that may take me weeks to untangle. However you may understand,… Read More Are you going to answer that call (to adventure)? Seeking the Epic Win Face.
One of my favorite treats is driving on a Sunday and listening to the Tavis Smiley Show. Yesterday was especially resonating. I caught the tail-end of “Where do we go from here? The prospect of peace in the 21st century,” a discussion with some of the greatest scholars, leaders, and thinkers of our time. At… Read More Be your own hero.
While we mentally live in a virtual world, there is grit and texture in other dimensions, too. Pay attention. The other evening, I went to a benefit concert performed by the Seattle School of Rock and other locations at the Vera Project in Seattle. It was a strange evening. As my son and I… Read More Art lives.
Please read this post by Teacher Tom. I share his sentiments: http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/unnatural-places.html
From the Writer’s Almanac, January 10, 2010: It was on this day in 1776 that a 77-page pamphlet called “Common Sense” was published anonymously, making the case that the American colonies should declare independence from Great Britain. It was written by Thomas Paine. (books by this author) The pamphlet sold more than 500,000 copies, more… Read More It makes sense.
Impulsivity + Meanness=Regret. I am still trying to find forgiveness for something I did when I was about seven or eight years old. When I was on the playground, one cold, crisp Texan school yard afternoon, the bell rang, and we went to line up. One of my classmates, a sweet, shy boy, while running… Read More Hey, you, get off of my cloud.
This writer obviously had a burning question that became the focus of his life’s work. The question is: what will be your passion and focus? From the Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1764 that Edward Gibbon (books by this author) thought up the idea of writing The Decline and Fall of the… Read More Rome wasn't written about in a day…
On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced horrific terrorist attacks on its soil, against its citizens. There are events in history that are so jolting, so frozen, that when you ask someone who may have been old enough to remember, “what were you doing when that happened?” you will see someone darken, a shadow… Read More The saddest day.
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