Just visited the school I retired from four years ago to say hi and check out the new renovations.
Whiteboards everywhere!
(er, sorry, “vertical non-permanent surfaces“)
While I appreciate the philosophy of getting the kids up and working things out for themselves, I’m really wondering about the massive amounts of plastic waste in the form of depleted whiteboard markers. Personally, I hated whiteboards when it was mostly just me using one, because I was constantly running out of markers. I can’t imagine how they cope now that all the students are using them, as well.
This is clearly an “out of sight, out of mind” issue for most folks, and I’m sure the petroplastics industry is totally fine with finding new ways to make money. But it’s incredibly shortsighted.
I know all about the drawbacks of chalk, but those inconveniences seem pretty minimal compared to the waste generated by whiteboards.
Is there a third low-tech option out there that allows for fine detail (so no drawing in sand 😄) without the waste? Why did people stop using chalkboards? The dust?
Tomorrow some of your Christian students may be observing the Christian holiday of Yom Saint Valentine Ha’Kadosh, more commonly known as Christian Tu B’Av. It is one of their important religious ‘Feast Days’ that even the least frum observe.
Hannah Thompson at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Rebecca London at UC, Santa Cruz looked at recess lengths at low-income elementary schools in California via a 2020-2021 state survey.
56% of the schools said they gave students more than 20 minutes of recess.
“If you don’t respect yourself and if you don’t demand what you believe in for yourself, you’re not gonna get it.”
– Judith Heumann, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Learn more about the life and legacy of Judith Heumann, "The Mother" of the American Disability Rights Movement, at https://judithheumann.com/
Geblogd over onderwijsinnovatie. Wat eigenlijk meer een kwestie is van organisatievernieuwing dan onderwijsvernieuwing. En waarin ik zo vrij ben Simon Sineks Golden Circle te verbeteren. Introducing The Golden Bicycle
I'm proposing that all educators confronting AI—even writing teachers—ask students to generate an image. Unlike ChatGPT, which comes off as some kind of robot oracle, text-to-image generators show AI capabilities and limits in vivid color 🧵 1/4
UMaine New Media and Computer Science just finished a groundbreaking 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools https://blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-school-creativity 🧵1/7