MSM 640: Get Your Own Dave Bydlowski
Summary:
Shawn and Troy talk about Frustration Busters, PD, and more. Dave heads out for Fieldwork Fridays.
Jokes:
Does Bill Nye have a daughter Dee?
What do you call a droid that takes the long way around?
- R2 detour.
Karma cafe now serving just deserts!
The urge to sing the Lion King song is just a whim away.
As I get older, I think of all the people I lost along the way. Maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t such a good idea.
Animal Fact #25: Most bobcats are not named bob.
*Reversing the car* “Ah, this takes me back”
I met a microbiologist yesterday.
- She was a lot bigger than I expected
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Fieldwork Fridays
I was recently reading the September-October 2024 issue of Science Scope, a journal published by the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, I read the “Interdisciplinary Ideas” section, written by Katie Coppens. She wrote an article entitled: “Fieldwork Fridays: Connecting Scientific Learning to Nature.”
Each Friday, in what are referred to as “Fieldwork Fridays,” the author brings her students outside to apply what they learned that week in class to the environment around them.
http://k12science.net/fieldwork-fridays/
Reports from the Front Lines
- Presentation “Thanking Your Past Self”
- Prepping for student experience – MYIG
- Book Study
- Bird Watching
The Social Web
My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.
I’m writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a ‘wave-horse’, the sea was a ‘whale-road’, the mind was a ‘thought-chamber’, and the sun was a ‘sky-candle’.
How to create a ‘Sort the Paragraphs’ activity in #H5P To see the finished example and more tutorials, check out http://mrh5p.com and subscribe to the H5P Builders newsletter. https://mrh5p.com/h5p-examples/how-to-make-a-sort-the-paragraphs-activity-with-h5p/
Strategies:
AI Image Generation in Education
https://blog.tcea.org/ai-image-generation-in-education/
Ten ways to boost learning in class with pictures
https://ditchthattextbook.com/dual-coding
Resources:
HTML for People
Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
“An outcome confirmed in hundreds of studies: students gain a much deeper understanding of science when they actively grapple with…questions than when they passively listen to answers”:
https://www.nature.com/articles/523272a
Web Spotlight:
The Ada & Zangemann Movie
Released as an Open Educational Resource, under a Creative Commons By Share-Alike Licence, it tells tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.
This fascinating story, by Matthias Kirschner and Sandra Brandstätter, encourages children, especially girls, to tinker with hardware and software and encouraging them to shape their own technology.
https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann//movie
Why Do Students In My ELL Newcomers Class Appear To Be Acquiring English So Much Faster Than In Past Years? Here Are Some Possible Answers
AXIS The Culture Translator
English or Spanish?
What it is: A TikTok trend started by @alfonsopinpon_ involves saying to strangers, “Excuse me, English or Spanish?” Then, after the stranger answers, the speaker says, “Whoever moves first is gay,” and films how long they stand still.
How it works: The initial question, “English or Spanish?” helps lower participants’ guard. “Why would someone be asking my preferred language?” unsuspecting subjects might think. The follow-up comment, that “Whoever moves first is gay,” is maybe the last thing they expect to hear—and many people instantly freeze. The surreal result resembles the “mannequin challenge” from a few years ago, and is sometimes soundtracked by a slowed down version of the song “Static” by Steve Lacy.
Random Thoughts . . .
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