Posted in ideas, third grade, urban on Nov 20th, 2008 No Comments »
What did I learn about my students?
During my guided lead teaching, I learned that my students need to hear SOMETHING or else they will scream, talk, and yell. This leads to arguments and fights. If I played the story we were writing about, they were silent, and worked. If I read the story aloud, they [...]
Posted in ESL, diversity, e-notebook, professional development, theory, urban on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The upcoming election has spawned the cyclical jockeying of special-intrest groups for public exposure. The unfortunate side of this is that a lot of elbows are thrown with little to show for it. Tempers flare, lines are drawn, and things quiet down while wounds heal; four years later, the cycle repeats. On the plus side, [...]
Posted in critical pedagogy, ideas, noteblog, technology, urban on Feb 5th, 2008 7 Comments »
As someone who is passionately committed to bringing technologies into classrooms, I have a hard time understanding resistance on the part of my CTs or peers. Recently, a classmate posted this on his blog, regarding the pervasiveness of technology in contemporary culture and its (in his [...]
Posted in critical pedagogy, diversity, e-notebook, literacy, theory, urban on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I am a firm believer that the linguistic code of a learner plays a direct and powerful role in the educational opportunities available to that student. The idea of linguistic capital, proposed as a subset of cultural capital by Bordieu, essentially states that a person possessing the linguistic codes of the higher-class can exchange this [...]
