Classroom Full of Stars (to be done after the Tuesday, September 24 class session)

Based on the Tuesday class session and the clips from Chris Pirlet's class at Aberdeen Central, does it seem to you that theater games would work well as a social science teaching technique? What do you see as positives and negatives about theater games? Do you think you will use theater games yourself when you teach? Why, or why not?

Politics of Education Reform

I thought that Dr. Meier raised many points worth further discussion in his Politics of Education Reform talk Tuesday night.  Of the things Meier said, what did you particularly agree with?  What didn't you agree with?

One of your final exam study questions asks you to comment on new trends in education, noting what trends you find positive and what trends you think dangerous.  What (if anything) did Dr. Meier say that might be worth talking about in connection with this theme?

Bonus: where do you think Dr. Meier and I would most disagree when it comes to American education?  Where would we most likely agree?

The return of--the Blog

For more than 10 years, SEED 415 students put together homepages. A homepage might still be useful, but there are lots of other tools that might suit your classroom purposes better, e.g., the blogs that you started creating last week.  Please add a comment here giving the URL of your blog.  Look at the other student blogs and add your comment to at least one post on each blog.

After you have finished creating your "dummy" blog, check out some of the resources Laura talked about in class today.  Which of these resources are you most likely to use in the classroom?