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The Educational Arsonist: July 2015
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Friday, July 10, 2015. Checking their Pulse: Consequences of Comparative Grading. Even at our pace, we would finish under 10 minutes, and we chugged slowly by some of our less-athletic classmates, breathing heavily, or slowing their feet to a walk, beads of sweat dripping down their faces, like more blades of swaying grass. I knocked his hand away out of instinct. And you’re not even trying! I turned back to the track, noticing the subs...
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The Educational Arsonist: "Equal" Doesn't Equal Fair
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Thursday, December 11, 2014. Equal" Doesn't Equal Fair. A mounting frustration for any teacher is a concern for failing students. "He didn't complete this, so he got an F." "She didn't turn in the last project, so it's a zero." It seems very logical, a student who fails to do the work, gets a zero, fails the assignment, and with enough zeroes will fail the marking period or the year. This brings me to the age old debate, does an F mean ...
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The Educational Arsonist: Nitty-Gritty
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Thursday, December 18, 2014. Grit It's a word that is thrown around quite often in the world of education. It's the word of the moment. Despite its recent pop culture explosion, grit is a concept I buy into wholeheartedly. Here's why. Be a time when these students don't know the answer and don't know how. Is it inborn or is it something that can be cultivated over time? You'll find I go ahead with what I start.". The Duckworth Lab.".
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The Educational Arsonist: December 2014
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Thursday, December 18, 2014. Grit It's a word that is thrown around quite often in the world of education. It's the word of the moment. Despite its recent pop culture explosion, grit is a concept I buy into wholeheartedly. Here's why. Be a time when these students don't know the answer and don't know how. Is it inborn or is it something that can be cultivated over time? You'll find I go ahead with what I start.". The Duckworth Lab.".
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The Educational Arsonist: August 2012
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Thursday, August 30, 2012. Metaphor through Video Games: Braid. Most people don’t consider video games to be art, much in the same way that television struggled to achieve that distinction, but as the industry becomes more accessible and diverse, and less wantonly commercial, we are beginning to see games emerge that challenge not only our hand-eye coordination, but the way we think about our own place in the world. By Richard Kelly, I ...
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The Educational Arsonist: September 2012
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Friday, September 28, 2012. Portal Flash Learning Lesson. Now that the first few setup lessons have been completed, we are moving into some of the experiential learning that will shape the class. Since the main thrust of the class is to break students out of their typical assumptions about what “school” can be, I wanted to provide an initial experience that was seemingly as far from these assumptions as possible. I told them that they c...
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The Educational Arsonist: Checking their Pulse: Consequences of Comparative Grading
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Friday, July 10, 2015. Checking their Pulse: Consequences of Comparative Grading. Even at our pace, we would finish under 10 minutes, and we chugged slowly by some of our less-athletic classmates, breathing heavily, or slowing their feet to a walk, beads of sweat dripping down their faces, like more blades of swaying grass. I knocked his hand away out of instinct. And you’re not even trying! I turned back to the track, noticing the subs...
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The Educational Arsonist: November 2012
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Thursday, November 29, 2012. The Thick of It. I always found popular culture intriguing because it represents what is relevant RIGHT NOW. I think many students share this sentiment but often find popular culture and current events quite distant from what goes on in their classrooms. With the recent super storm, Hurricane Sandy, students in Morristown, New Jersey were in the thick of what was on the news and flooding social media networks.
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The Educational Arsonist: Good Kid, M.a.a.D. City: Trauma and Education:
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". Monday, June 8, 2015. Good Kid, M.a.a.D. City: Trauma and Education:. Addressing the Needs of Struggling Learners in Heterogeneous Environments. I Art of Peer Pressure. A homogenous experience would have created a myopic blindness around these issues. Track after track, and skit after skit, I realized that this was an experience as well as a collection of songs. The album chronicles a young Lamar navigating his way around Compton as...
