Mrs CJ

Recent Activity

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  Mrs signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Tell Wilson Sporting Goods: Stop Sponsoring Racist, Anti-Gay Schools
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  Mrs signed the petition | almost 2 years ago

  Stop Texas Board of Education from Giving Your Children Biased Textbooks
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  Mrs commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Dear Auntie Siobhan: She Won't Come to Class, but She Won't Leave Me Alone!

  I think that Ms. Austen should have stopped the email communication and required the student come to office hours to discuss her issues. The continuing stream of emails always put the student in control. While I don't teach college, I would imagine that this is definitely a student that I would have made a partner with my administrator or advising counselor.

  
  

  Good luck in the future.

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  Mrs commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Books Were Nice

  I agree with Claus. Sometimes I worry that this rapid change in technology seems to be pushing us to place where we have to choose. Choose to be online reading or reading a book. Choose to be online "socially" networking or talking to the people in front of us. I applaud Shelley for creating a Paperless classroom. But maybe a classroom with all technology on no other outlets/devices is just a dangerous as a classroom void of technology. I love finding things online. But I can't imagine sustained readings of books strictly online. I haven't tried any of the new devices like the Kindle, and maybe they offer promising alternatives, but I am not tossing my books yet.

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  Mrs commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Disconnected

  I agree that there is a huge disconnect happening in schools that want increased implementation fo educational technology while creating barriers to some of the most important tools. But there is one word that will keep all digital streams dammed up and that's LIABILITY. No administrator wants to be held liable for what a student may or may not do while connected to the internet during instructional time. And equally parents are by and large unwilling to hold their students accountable for their actions. As long as their is one parent willing to blame the school system for what their children may or may not encounter or do while on an unfettered internet, then blocks will remain.

  
  

  It is a sad but unfortunate truth.

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  Mrs commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Framing Teachers: Bill Gates' Disturbing TED Rhetoric

  I think that his highlighting of KIPP Academy and schools like it are a little misleading. Yes, it is true that KIPP takes some of the poorest students, but it must be said that charter schools like KIPP take MOTIVATED poor students. I would like to see those KIPP teachers take their strategies into a regular public school who does not have the privilege of taking "applications" and selecting students.
  
  I think the system of education is flawed, not just teachers. So if he thinks that putting cameras into a classroom is going to all of a sudden change the system, then he is off base. The reality that we are educating 21st century children for 22nd century jobs with a 18th-19th century school model is downright ridiculous.