MSM 649: The Details Require Thinking; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind
Summary:
Shawn and Troy discuss the TikTok ban, Supreme Court, and more. Dave is focused on Expanding Science Knowledge.
Jokes:
All generalizations are false, including this one.
— Mark Twain
What do you get when you cross a chicken with a skunk?
- A fowl smell!
Rumination has nothing to do with rum, rummy or a nation that loves both.
What do you call a guy lying on your doorstep?
- Matt.
Time may be a great healer but it’s a lousy plastic surgeon.
Why do nuns have problems with disposing of their clothing?
- Because old habits die hard
What’s the best thing about elevator jokes?
- They work on so many levels.
Remember, if you misspell armageddon it’s not the end of the world.
What is Intermittent fasting?
- Driving between speed cameras
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Expanding Science Knowledge
I was recently reading the November/December 2024 issue of “Science and Children” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, I read the “Guest Editorial” column, written by Emily Adah Miller and Ayca Fackler. They wrote an article entitled, “Expanding Science Knowledge Through Expansive Science Teaching.”
To prepare students for future scientific endeavor and to be scientifically literate world citizens, teachers must challenge the status quo, pushing the limits of science education by using local place to contextualize and increase science understanding.
http://k12science.net/expanding-science-knowledge/
Reports from the Front Lines
- Live Supreme Court Feed
- PowerSchool Breach
- Assessment season
The Social Web
Keep Indiana Learning @keepinlearning.bsky.social
Registration for TIE-IN 2025 is open! Educators, explore the “behind the scenes” of industries across the state to see what employers are looking for in new hires & the jobs your students may have someday. Stipends available upon completion! Register now! buff.ly/3DzH4ED
Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli.bsky.social
As you do some prof reading over this holiday, consider how you will process and apply it instead of just highlighting it or simply grunting, “Hmm, that’s interesting,” and move on, never to retrieve it again. Here’s a piece w/some ideas on that: www.amle.org/just-did-som…
Our next film, The American Revolution, will air on @PBS starting Nov. 16. Leading up to the broadcast, we’ll have a national conversation about this important event and how it helped define us as a people – and changed the world. More info is here: https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1877402515198623744/9Y71_Ln3?format=jpg&name=medium
Tonight on @BBCTwo on 9 – I’m in the very room at the@TowerOfLonwhere Guy Fawkes was interrogated after being caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament. This week on #LucyWorsleyInvestigates, we investigate THE GUNPOWDER PLOT! https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00
NEWSFLASH! It’s a new year and a new life for me … if you’d like to join me on my latest adventures in the past, subscribe to my brand-new newsletter! lucyworsley.substack.com
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP – Six Keys Unlock Innovative Instructional Change. Successful school innovations have clear vision & purpose, full collaboration & a commitment to monitor & adjust. Ron Williamson and @BarbBlackburn share 6 keys. #edleaders #educoach https://middleweb.com/51702/leading-
Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli.bsky.social
ICYMI, here’s my latest piece w/ideas on what to do when you have an extra 15 minutes in a lesson or at the end of the year after testing is done & students are less focused. Let’s use the time well, in substantive activities that advance student learning and creativity. www.amle.org/when-the-les…
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the ‘ch’ as in the Scottish ‘loch’]: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn’, when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Strategies:
How Students Learn to Be Generous Listeners
https://www.middleweb.com/51719/some-ways-we-might-teach-generous-listening/
Resources:
Book: The Queen Like Closet
Free book of recipes and an example of language back in the day . . .
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14377
ClassQuiz
Can use Markdown to create.
Free. Open source.
Privacy Policy
https://classquiz.de/docs/privacy-policy
Follow on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@classquiz
https://classquiz.de/
A Collaborative Math Classroom that Works
https://www.middleweb.com/51715/a-collaborative-math-classroom-that-works/
Web Spotlight:
OATutor
OATutor revolutionizes personalized education by offering an open-source, adaptive learning platform tailored to every course by utilizing leading edge GenAI research. Whether you’re a teacher, researcher, or student, OATutor provides the tools you need to succeed.
Completed:
- OpenStax Elementary Algebra
- OpenStax Intermediary Algebra
- OpenStax College Algebra
In Progress:
- OpenStax Statistics
- OpenStax Physics
https://www.oatutor.io/
ActivityWatch
ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.
It is open source, privacy-first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime.
It can be used to keep track of your productivity, time spent on different projects, bad screen habits, or just to understand how you spend your time.
Ansel Adams
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America’s most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. For the first time, digital scans of both Adams’s original negatives and his photographic prints appear side by side allowing viewers to see Adams’s darkroom technique, in particular, how he cropped his prints. Adams’s Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style landscape photography. Although a majority of the more than 200 photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities (see Collection Highlights). When offering the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams said in a letter, “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment….All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use.” The web site also includes digital images of the first edition of Born Free and Equal, Adams’s publication based on his work at Manzanar.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-this-collection
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