New benches at Lewis Elementary…
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In Mrs. Pechette’s 1st grade classroom the last day of school before winter break is stuffed animal day. Students bring their favorite stuffed animal to class. They are asked to leave the animal on their desk when the leave for lunch recess. When they return they find their friend wrapped in a blanket that Mrs. Pechette’s has knitted for them. A pretty nice day…
Social media doesn’t “make it easier” for teachers to form “boundary-crossing relationships with students.” It makes COMMUNICATION easier, period. If teachers have poor judgment about communicating appropriately, that’s a different story.
Let’s be clear: social media isn’t the enemy. Poor judgment is. – apropos of Adrienne on tumblr: http://timlauer.tumblr.com/post/14416719796/social-media-doesnt-make-it-easier-for-teachers
Taken with a Canon S95 using the miniature effect… Was a beautiful afternoon in Eugene…
Tonight the iOS 5.0.1 update arrived, which means a chance to test the new over-the-air update system introduced in iOS 5. Over-the-air updates are one of the most important sanity-saving features of iOS 5 for people managing large installs of iOS devices. Instead of having to connect to iTunes, download a 700MB+ restore image and connect your iPads one by one, you can install the update directly on the device. via Fraser Speirs – Blog – Over-the-air Updating of iOS 5.
Speirs’ site is a great resource for folks managing iOS deployments… At Lewis, we have 70 iPads in use in our 4th and 5th grade classrooms. Over winter break we plan to do the upgrade from iOS 4 to iOS 5. Once this is done, then we can take advantage of Over the Air (OTR) upgrades.
Even on a rainy day, we still get quite a few bike riders…
What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.
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The quote is by Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway…
on tumblr: http://timlauer.tumblr.com/post/13024336163/what-is-elementary-worldly-wisdom-well-the
