December 5, 2008 – 11:40 pm
Made on the lid of a storage bin out of stuff W found around the house. To play you prop up the lid so it sits at a slight angle, use a marble for the ball and your thumbs as the flippers. I’ve heard that Thomas Edison said that all you need to invent is [...]
October 31, 2008 – 12:06 am
Thank you Cathy, for introducing me to edutopia.org and this video. Here James Paul Gee, a professor at Arizona State University talks about video games and their learning potential, online communities, and the future of education in general. Fascinating stuff. Dr. Gee has written a book called What Video Games can Teach Us About Literacy [...]
October 28, 2008 – 5:52 pm
July: Mom peeks through the KONOS book to find a unit the kids will enjoy for fall. August: Mom writes out a few months’ worth of plans so she doesn’t have to get up each morning and figure out what to do. September: Mom tries to follow her plans, but finds out they’re not what [...]
October 22, 2008 – 4:12 am
Today I combed our local library for books for our KONOS Frontiersmen unit. There were less than a dozen! The librarian said the local public schools have stopped teaching about the Westward expansion. Can you imagine?! They teach Plymouth Rock and 2008, but not how we got to the west coast! I also learned our [...]
October 6, 2008 – 12:55 am
Sweetness is…reading Emily Dickinson with your girls on a princess quilt in their bedroom just before bed. What’s even sweeter is…hearing your eight year old’s voice reading Emily Dickinson to your two year old, on a princess quilt in their bedroom just before bed. What’s the sweetest is…putting down the book of Emily Dickinson poems, [...]
