The Challenge of Finding Wisdom
A response to Michael Godsey The following post was written in response to an article in The Atlantic. Unfortunately, that publication rejected my response, citing it as too complex. Really? I mean, really? In Plato’s Apology, we learn that many who claim to...
Cold Buckets of Charity
The internet's claim that the Ice Bucket Challenge is "ubiquitous" is understatement, but the use of the term implies its over-reach, its annoying domination. True enough, within hours of its seizure of FaceBook and Twitter, Vine and YouTube, critics of the...
Student Blogs as Published Work I – Accountability
One of several posts on my old blog, From the Trenches, about the craft of teaching. I: Accountability I know, another teacher writing about student blogs? It’s true that edtech folks have been praising the power of blogs for students for several years,...
Bambi in Boyland 3: The American Forest
This a 3-part series as a model for student work. Bambi in Boyland: How Disney’s Fawn Reflects American Morals Part Three: The American Forest: How Lost is the Dream of Success? The American Dream must be re-envisioned. It’s time to abandon goals of material wealth...
Bambi in Boyland 2: The Infamy of a Failed, Rapping Wannabe Forest Prince
This a 3-part series as a model for student work. Bambi in Boyland: How Disney’s Fawn Reflects American Morals Part Two: How our ideas of power and success are shallow and naïve, and that Bambi’s virtues remain a noble goal. “Later, you grow and start to...
Bambi in Boyland 1: Commerce Drive-In Theater, 1968
This a 3-part series as a model for student work. Bambi in Boyland: How Disney’s Fawn Reflects American Morals Part One: Commerce Drive-In Theater, 1968 A boy is introduced to movies and Disney’s Bambi, and the initiation teaches fear. I admit my memory is cloudy . I...
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