classroom lessons
High School Teacher Encourages Tweeting, No Foolin’
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008It seems that most of us just barely began to understand the concept of blogging when along comes microblogging via Twitter.
Twitter is another social networking tool to help friends, family and others to stay in contact through the exchange of quick and frequent answers via their cellphones. It’s similar to text messaging, but with Twitter you stay in [...]
Lesson on Racism Upsets Idaho Parent
Friday, February 15th, 2008
When fifth grade teachers tried to bring alive what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meant by being judged by the color of your skin, a Times-News article reports on the upset reaction that resulted.
To help students see what it feels like to experience racism and segregation, about 200 fifth graders at Summit Elementary School in Twin [...]
Pop Grammar: Are You Appalled or Amazed?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007If you are an English teacher confronted with the shorthand, text-message-speak of today’s teens you are probably appalled by their blatant disregard for standard grammar.
In an article in Teacher Magazine* Cindi Rigsbee, a middle grade teacher in North Carolina tells how she fights back against what she believes is the erosion of our language. She teaches [...]