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  1. Apr 2020
  2. Feb 2020
    1. dear

      Little Red is not dear in the 2015 version of Little Red Riding Hood published by Parragon Books. Dear is replaced by sweet, in Jessica Gunderson's 2015 version of the German version. Red is little in the False Grandmother (same edition's version of an Italian tale considered another version of Little Red Riding Hood. In the Taiwanese telling (Grandaunt Tiger) from the same edition, Little Red is neither dear, sweet, nor little, rather a daughter and a sister. How do these different terms imply different gendered positions for girls? What can we learn from the distinction between being referred to as dear, sweet, little versus a sister or a daughter?

  3. Apr 2019
  4. Mar 2018
    1. arents should ask the school, "Why do you believe that my child does not need this service to benefit from special education and to be involved in and make progress in the general curriculum?" If the school refuses to provide a requested related service, the parents can ask for a written notice of refusal. This notice must state:1.what the school is refusing to do;2.what the school decided to do instead;3.the data on which that decision was based; and 4.and the other options which were considered.

      This is crucial. This is a right and would completely inhibit administrators from being able to refuse or would at least force them to think about it before they refused service.

    1. If the evaluation shows that your child has a disability, the ARD committee must then address the second part of the two-part eligibility test by decidingwhether your child needs special education and related services to benefit from education. If your child does not have an educational need for special education services, he or she is not eligible for any such services

      What is educational need in Texas? How do we separate that from other kinds of needs?

    2. hese services may include, but are not limited to: tutoring;remedial services;compensatory services;response to scientific, research-based intervention;and other academic or behavior support services

      Who has access to these support services in the school? Are students with SPED services precluded from access to these services?

    3. campus-based student support team, which is a team of teachers, and other personnel who meet regularly to address any learning or behavioral concerns that children are having

      Who are these people at Maplewood?

    1. IEEOrderedbyaHearingOfficerIfahearingofficerordersanIEEaspartofadueprocesshearing,theschoolmustpayforit

      Who are the hearing officers? How are they selected and who are they accountable to?

    2. The notice must be written in language understandable to the general public and must be translated into your native language or other mode of communication, unless it clearly is not feasible to do so.

      Nothing here about length or layout which can make these documents difficult to navigate.

  5. Jan 2018
    1. “Teenagers.”

      Do a google image search for teenager. What comes up? What do you see? What do you think? What do you wonder? Who's missing? What's missing? What dominates? What are the consequences? Who/what is invested in these "images" of teenagers? How does this article parallel and challenge these images?

  6. Apr 2017
    1. For instance, in a class on web design, a colour blind student wrote a post carefully explaining other students and readers how to design sites that can be read by colour blind people –an important point when designing websites, since you’ll have more colour blind readers than readers using Opera or Netscape or needing websafe colours or any of those other elements of web design that we fret about. Other students explained technical skills they themselves had just mastered: how to make skins for your blog, how to use php to join up separate html files.

      Surprises that came from blogging. I'm often heartened by the things that happen when I open my classroom up to the "non-academic" or "less-academic" side of life.

    2. Thinking writing is the kind of writing we do when we’re thinking through problems or topics, when we’re writing for ourselves and not for an audience. Thinking-writing is often called process writing, but I really like Dysthe’s term: it emphasises how writing can actually help us think.

      This is the kind of writing my students did in class before they prepared inquiry statements. They spent time writing about their passions, interests, and expertises. As we layered on educational technology and their certificate area, these lead to questions.

  7. Oct 2016
    1. Generative scholarship is framed with significant disciplinary questions in mind, offers scholarly interpretation in multiple forms as it is being built, and invites collaborators ranging from undergraduate students to senior researchers to public historians

      This I love. Who is the audience for pre-service undergrad teachers and youth local, multimodal history? How might my pre-service teachers learn about history making and teach it simultaneously via a disciplinary literacy curriculum they enact with elementary school aged youth?

    2. Digital scholarship holds out a rare promise of both advancing scholarly conversations and performing a democratic service.

      I think about this when I ponder a project that trickles down into our school university partnership and engages both SEU interns and youth in collaborative siting or creation of a relevant archive. I've thought about mapping the neighborhood and its local issues and histories through youth lenses using google field trip, but I want to be sure that what's logged is of use. How can I anticipate use? Who would its audience be beyond local residents and tourists? Who uses google field trip in south austin past 71 and if so, why and how?

    3. The concept of digital scholarship has emerged to describe this activity. Although the phrase sometimes refers to issues surrounding copyright and open access and sometimes to scholarship analyzing the online world, digital scholarship—emanating, perhaps, from digital humanities—most frequently describes discipline-based scholarship produced with digital tools and presented in digital form. The University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab was established in 2007, and new centers have emerged at Rice, Brown, Emory, Miami, Ohio State, and Case Western Universities, the Universities of Utah, Oregon, Kansas, and California at Irvine, Haverford College, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and other colleges and universities.

      What does this look like in my field?

  8. Jun 2016
    1. those in their 20s and 30s—I feel compelled to do a ton of research to make sure I’m getting every option and then making the best choice

      There are some folks of this generation he refers to, eschewing this way of "inhabiting the present." Really makes you wonder if he did inhabit the present much earlier looking for somewhere to eat if he entertained many places, ran out of a time, and had to make his own sandwich). Where is he, actually?

  9. Apr 2016
    1. There has been much work on this question in the educational field, and there are many curricula designed for children with difficulties in mathematics. However very few of these curricula have been rigorously tested for their efficacy, and the studies that do exist include children who have difficulties in mathematics for all sorts of reasons, not just those with dyscalculia.

      BUT do they work? In an odd way, I don't like this dismissal of this work working for kids with all sorts of math difficulties given the gap it seems to be making for future curriculum target marketing. So many curricula support learners with multiple needs. This is hardly a reason to discredit or at the very least dismiss or passover these curricula. Wish they were named here?!

    2. Another researcher, Geary (1993), has argued for three different subtypes of dyscalculia, one based on difficulties in fact retrieval (ie. learning simple addition sums, and times tables), one based on difficulties in learning procedures and strategies, and one based on visuo-spatial difficulties.

      Reading this I would bet a million bucks that these are all in play with Sadie, so....discredited based on one case? :0

    3. Shalev, R. S., & Gross-Tsur, V. (2001). Developmental dyscalculia. Pediatr Neurol, 24(5), 337-342.

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    4. attentional disorders

      I'm guessing teachers might see this one, but I can't imagine that's the case given all the strength in all other life domains and the multiple ways in which math instruction has been approached for Sadie [my daughter] from an early age (e.g.,home, school, concrete, abstract, algorithmic, wrote memorization and practice, etc.). This also gets complicated given the prevalence of all these other "reasons" in the popular discourse as opposed to the more nascent suggestion (construction) of dyscalculia.

    1. My parents had an arranged marriage. This always fascinated me. I am perpetually indecisive about even the most mundane things, and I couldn’t imagine navigating such a huge life decision so quickly.

      Gets me thinking he's going to debunk traditional love narratives. I'm going to think of some I know and anticipate that he'll knock them off one by one. He starts with the arranged marriage. I'm guessing high school sweet hearts will be next and at some point, one marriage or monogamy might be up for revision too.

    2. I learned of the phenomenon of “good enough” marriage, a term social anthropologists use to describe marriages that were less about finding the perfect match than a suitable candidate whom the family approved of for the couple to embark on adulthood together.

      Seeing the disciplinary possibilities of parallel readings to this (to go deeper) and recalling the book "starter marriage" that I ironically read right after I got engaged. While the term wasn't the same, the book echoed this article as it traced a contemporary marital phenomenon that marked a generation legally, psych-emotionally, financially, etc.. Searching for starter marriage I came across this huff post starter marriage blog LIST! Seems the phenomenon isn't over.

    1. Because it is personalized, everyone’s PLE will be unique. Because it is collaborative, information may be continually created and shared. In the workplace, designing a personal learning environment has the potential to partially replace conventional courses.

      I think this is interesting because it brings meaning to personal learning, while helping build knowledge in a collective. I wonder how different individuals help shape a collective understanding, and even shift its directions because of the questions they raise or the diverse experiences and background knowledge they have to offer.

  10. Feb 2016
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    1. Living in such a small town there is really not much to do, so to pass time, me and my siblings would play basketball at the one court that my town had just about every night (the days were too hot).

      I have an instant image of this routine in my mind. This is such a quick story and it contributes to your credibility and authority as a physical educator. You've got to display your lifelong learning and identity as a physically active person and you're doing it, concretely and credibly.

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    1. :)

      This gives me a feel for the casual tone you're working to strike, but I'm wondering if given the initial clause about letting us in on a secret, you might end the sentence with a ... for drama instead and to fend off some of the more conservative audience members who might judge you for using emoticons as a teacher (I don't, but have their imaginary lenses on my shoulder as I read).

    1. She is the reason I want to work with students.

      Sounds like a real inspiration. I wonder if you might quote her? I am also looking at this and wondering about balance. How can we fit you and your strengths back into this page before we leave it, as readers? Is there a way to bring us back to you through a moment mentioning the image or the metaphor it might illustrate, experience it conveys about you and who you are as an educator? (just brainstorming)

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    1. And thats the kind of educator I want to be!

      I agree with Brooke and Christen that you've got a nice framework here to develop. The picture tells a story, invites us into your family (I'm guessing, but a caption would clarify that) and your final line referencing your role in the family helps us learn about this familial role and the connection you see between it and your future as an educator. Now it's time to take things to the next level and share some of those specifics like your certificate level, perhaps an inspiration, a mentor, a quote, something about what you hope this site might do for your future students or their families. All these potential details will establish your credibility and begin to convey your authority.

    1. what are your views on education?- students from Alta Vista charter HIgh school KC

      Nice to see youth reaching out, BUT thinking his views are explicitly stated all over the site. Strange question to ask. Must be part of the assignment, to reach out. It's recent.

  20. Jan 2016
  21. Nov 2015
    1. Navigate

      What experiences do you have with formal digital citizenship curriculum? Informal? A long time ago, one of my roommates wrote me a long, angry, distressing email. This was before people (or I) checked email multiple times a day (2000). I went home, hung out, returned to work, and went home and hung out and returned to work before I read the email. To this day, I remember the feeling I had reading that email at work, knowing my roommate had been around me with full knowledge that the email was out circulating in cyberspace. To this day, I remember thinking emails of that sort were for cowards and people fearful of face to face social interactions. I'm not sure if this is the same today, but I believe the concerns over how people treat each other on the Internet and the importance of keeping the PERSON you are communicating with in mind remain. I'm not sure my roommate/friend was thinking much about me while drafting that email, even though it was sent to me and would have lasting ramifications on my life and our friendship.

    1. Digital Native vs Digital Citizen? Examining a Dangerous Stereotype

      this picture evokes a lot of emotion and prompts me to think of the digital divide, access, and a globalizing world. I'm wondering if the author wants me to feel sorry for this little kid. I'm wondering if this little kid is a wiz. I wonder if we'll learn anything about this kid beyond this image. If we don't, this feels a bit manipulative to me. Reading on.

    2. Are they both dangerous? I'm curious and wondering about the constraints of defining citizenship. I've already thought a good deal about the problems with the notion of "digital natives." I'm reminded of generation like] and the ways youth are portrayed as natives, but as a result, positioned as un-savvy, duped by the media, slaves to corporate marketing and social network likes.

    1. CHICAGO — Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions. 

      Summary of this piece is likely here in the start because it's a newspaper article. Looks like it's reporting on this law suit about a transgender student's rights being violated.

  22. Oct 2015
    1. National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST)Research Assistant (2004-2007)

      This is where I got my research feet wet and learned about the process of school change from the classroom to school and region administration. It's a sticky process.

  23. Sep 2015
    1. She said that in order to make sense of it, you need to think of musicals, because the plot in a musical exists to stop all of the songs from happening at once, and to get you from song to song. You need the song where the heroine pines for what she does not have, you need the songs where the whole chorus is doing something rousing and upbeat, and you need the song when the lovers get together and, after all the vicissitudes, triumph.

      I want to understand this analogy, but it's eluding me. I'm reading on in hopes that the next paragraph clears things up for me.