Historical Archives
Last week and this week, my kids are taking the state tests. My son had 4 days of testing this week, while my daughter had 3 last week and has 3 more this week. That’s a lot of time for testing. And they’ve both said that, in the weeks leading up to the tests, the…
Laura asked last week, I think, how many hours we work. There were a lot of responses to that that indicated people worked 50-60 hours a week. In some cases, I was thinking, when the heck do you sleep? Although I feel like I could do more every week, I like to keep my work,…
Laura at 11D and Tim at Easily Distracted both posted about the more down-to-earth knowledge they feel young people (and we, really) should have. The comments at both posts also add a lot of ideas to the conversation. I’ve been reading Sarah Vowell’s Wordy Shipmates and she says she’s urban and she really doesn’t want…
Like everyone else, I’ve been outraged by the AIG bonus story. The more I read about it, the more angry I get. As I commented over at 11D, I used to work on a bonus structure. I know what a bonus is for and it’s not for failure. In our scheme, you got a bonus…
I had an excellent birthday yesterday, despite having to go in to work. I had a fun and interesting meeting with my co-teacher, where we hammered out plans for this week and discussed our thinking for the last few weeks of class. Sitting in my office, I was thrilled to see so many birthday wishes…
Edupunk: Open Source Education ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes Stephen links to the audio for the SXSW panel on Edupunk with Stephen, Jim Groom, Barbara Ganley and Gardner Campbell. It’s a really fascinating conversation that explores the role of higher education institutions in the future, the differences between institutional vs. personal learning, and…
So I’m 41. I survived a year of being 40. Now I guess I have to say I’m in my 40s. It’s been an interesting year. I voluntarily quit my job during a time when many people are being laid off, at an age when many people are looking for their next move up the…
Gretchen Rubin has been writing a series of posts that outline 10 happiness myths. Today’s is Money Can’t Buy Happiness. She argues that it can. As people are losing their jobs or seeing salary cuts and experiencing depression as a result, it seems obvious that money does buy some happiness. I agree. When we were…
I’m supposed to be grading right now, but I’m not, mostly because I need at least one more cup of coffee before I can tackle that. I am a slow grader. I can only manage 3 or 4 papers at once before I start to pull my hair out. It’s not that the papers are…
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