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Mechelle De Craene Getting Goin...

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Mechelle De Craene Herbert Responds to Arne on Education: What do u think?

"Dear Secretary Duncan, I’m worried about the direction you’re taking education policy. In a recent interview with NEA Today, you said you read my book “36 Children” in high school and wrote an essay about it in college. “The book had a big impact on me,” you said, adding that it gave you “tremendous hope” to address the “challenges that teachers in tough communities face.”But I’m afraid… Continue

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Mechelle De Craene René Magritte

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Mechelle De Craene James Wolcott on Cultural Snobbery in the "Digital Age"

"Pity the culture snob, as Kindles, iPods, and flash drives swallow up the visible markers of superior taste and intelligence. With the digitization of books, music, and movies, how will the highbrow distinguish him- or herself from the masses?" Read on Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on August 4, 2009 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Einstein

“Remember your humanity and forget the rest” -Einstein Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 29, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Inside Higher Ed: Tenure in a Digital Era

"Among the "horror stories" Rosemary Feal has heard: Assistant professors who work in digital media and whose tenure review panels insist on evaluating them by printing out selected pages of their work. "It's like evaluating an Academy Award entry based on 20 film stills," said Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association. Such horror stories abound.… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Geektastic!!

"Benjamin Nugent describes nerd history and the different nerdy subcultures. Dan Lamoureux produced and directed the documentary film “Nerdcore for Life.” David Anderegg thinks we need more nerds. Holly Black says that girl nerds and geeks definitely exist. Gary Brecher explains what it means to be a war nerd. Benjamin Nugent is the author of "American Nerd: The Story of My Pe… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 23, 2009 at 11:20am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Social Security: What Will Happen to Our Baby Boomer Parents?

"Baby boomers grew up skeptical of authority, so it's hardly surprising that some of them doubt the government will deliver the full Social Security and Medicare benefits it has promised. Bruce Benton, who turns 62 on Bastille Day, July 14, is one of them. He plans to file for early Social Security payments rather than wait till age 65 to draw a larger… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 15, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene 1936 ~ A Look Back in History: American Ideals vs. The New Deal

"The Supreme Court has reversed some ten or twelve of the New Deal major enactments. Many of these acts were a violation of the rights of men and of self government. Despite the sworn duty of the Executive and Congress to defend these rights, they have sought to take them into their own hands. That is an attact of the foundations of freedom. More than this, the indepedence on the Congress… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 15, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Arne needs to get schooled!!

"Duncan said that might mean firing an entire staff and bringing in a new one, replacing a principal or turning a school over to a charter school operator. The point, he said, is to take bold action in persistently low-achieving schools." Are teachers to blame for American public schools failing? According to Arne and Obama...yes!! What's up with that? Also, like the previous Sec of Ed Ma… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 12, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Happy Mother's Day!! : )

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Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 10, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Kae Looking 4 Discussants for Tibetan Book of Dead and Second Life

Looking for people to come discuss TBOTD and/or using Second Life as a simulation for Bardo Thodol who don't require a introductory workshop on TBOTD. We can provide the introductory workshop on Second Life. Okay - we can do both. Please let us know. Kae Novak K.zenovka@yahoo.com Time: May 22, 2009 from 8am to 9:30am Location: Second Life Organized By: Beth Davies-Stofka Event Description: Religion in Virtual Worlds Study Group The Religion in Virtual Worlds Study Group meets on the 3r… Continue

Added by Kae on May 9, 2009 at 12:33am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene President Obama Proposed to Cut Ed Tech Funding by 63%

"Federal funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program would drop from $270 million to $100 million, a 63 percent cut, under President Obama's proposed $3.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. Four leading ed-tech groups expressed "great disappointment" in the Obama Administration’s proposed cut. On May 7, the Consortium for School Networking, International Society… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 8, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Chris Smith Shambles Termly Newsletter

Shambles Termly Newsletter .. only 3 a year ... for (international) educators http://tr.im/kpvx

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Added by Chris Smith on May 5, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Nellie Deutsch Integrating Technology and Teacher Collaboration

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on April 23, 2009 at 9:14am — No Comments

Perry Cook PLOrk does DML Showcase

PLOrk @ Newberry on YouTube Wow. We managed to fly to Chicago and back with all our gear, doing a performance at the Newberry Library and the showcase at the polychronistic Palmer House, all in a couple of days. All this only one week after we did a big show at the Kitchen in New York with Matmos and So Percussion. Guess we've managed to create the Mobile Music Laboratory we described in the MacArthur grant. Thanks to all the HASTAC and M… Continue

Added by Perry Cook on April 19, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Haruki Murakami

"Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on March 16, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene HASTAC III Traversing Boundaries: Thoughts on Electronic Particles Upsetting the Whole Applecart

As you may know, HASTAC III .is right around the corner!! This year's theme is Transversing Boundaries. I'm excited to learn more about the conversations that will evolve around this topic!! I've been thinking of the whole idea of transversing boundaries and what it means to K-12. Yes, I could talk about the us… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on February 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Mechelle De Craene NPR: Temple Grandin On 'The Best Life For Animals'

Here is an Interview with Temple Grandin with NPR aired on Jan. 5th, 2009. "In her new book, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among othe… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on January 11, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Healing & Restoration

''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''” -W.H. Auden ... Image Reference: http://spacecollective.org/userdata/0TNqiNw8/1201211569/450px-Blue_Linckia_Starfish.JPG Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on December 14, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

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