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	<title>Lesson Upgrades &#187; Daniel Pink</title>
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		<title>Seth&#8217;s Blog: Whatever happened to labor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We say we want insightful and brilliant teachers, but then we insist they do their labor precisely according to a manual invented by a committee&#8230; via Seth&#8217;s Blog: Whatever happened to labor?. So as I am sitting back and enjoying Labor Day, I ran into Seth Godin&#8217;s comments about modern labor, and of course, this excerpt about teachers. Seth Godin always has insightful, succinct observations about society, and I recommend that everyone subscribe to his blog if you do not already do so.  It is one of the most popular in the blogosphere and for good reason. And in this season of teacher-bashing it is nice to see someone appreciate the creative and challenging labor of teachers specifically.  Who hasn&#8217;t felt as if creativity is punished while blind obedience is rewarded in their professional life?   After all, as the famous Japanese proverb states:  &#8220;The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.&#8221; Have you ever felt like this: You must implement the latest pedagogical techniques in order to raise your test scores.  Don&#8217;t ask questions about its efficacy, just do it and turn in the paperwork.  Trust us, your test scores will rise.  Never mind your individual student needs.  We will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Plan Search Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s frustrating finding free lesson plans through traditional search engines. I wanted to share this customized search engine for free lesson plans. Now teachers can search for free lesson plans from sites that do not require registration. Every result should be a ready-to-go lesson plan for free. If not, please make a comment to let me know. You can enter search information in the box below, where it says &#8220;Google Custom Search&#8221;.  Just put in your subject (ex: American History) and a specific topic (ex: Andrew Carnegie), hit the search button and look through the results. If you have any trouble or get bum results, please comment below. I will do everything I can to make this tool viable for all teachers. And one last word: Sorry about the ads. The only way to make this customized search engine for free is to allow Google to place ads in the results. Happy lesson plan hunting! Loading //]]></description>
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		<title>Using iTunes U to Develop Symphony Without an iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s iPad has taken the world by storm, and it seems that educators everywhere are fascinated by the device. At Julia Green Elementary school in Nashville, Apple&#8217;s iPad will be utilized in all of their kindergarten classrooms.  Students will be able to use the technology to surf the web, access iTunes U, and create their own content.  Educators at Julia Green say that this type of technology is essential in preparing students for the global economy. In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink cites the aptitude of symphony as the ability to look at vast amounts of information and to find meaningful patterns.  As I read about iPads in the classroom, the aptitude of symphony came to mind. With the deluge of information that comes across the screen of an iPad, how can we prepare students to process that information and make sense of it all? The obvious answer is to let our students use an iPad.  Principal Eileen Willis of Julia Green calls this the process of developing &#8220;global mindedness&#8221; and &#8220;preparing children to be in this world&#8221;. But what about the rest of us who do not have the resources to provide an iPad for our students to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade This Lesson Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all teachers of the Right-Brain! Maybe you could help me upgrade this colleague&#8217;s lesson plan to include some of Dan Pink&#8217;s right-brain aptitudes from A Whole New Mind.  She is looking for any number of suggestions, but if we get enough folks submitting ideas we can put it up for a vote to declare an overall winner.  And who knows&#8230;maybe a prize for the winner? Rules of the game: Be nice Your upgrade needs to be simple, keeping the integrity of the plan You must mention which specific aptitude from A Whole New Mind that students will be developing Please post your upgrade as a comment, as I did, so all can see it Be nice! Alright, here it goes&#8230; Here is the lesson plan: Students are given a basic summary page of the textbook chapter that will be studied.  Students answer provided questions following the reading.  This is about a 20-minute activity, just to give you a time frame. So Right-Brain teachers please comment below and we&#8217;ll see what we&#8217;ve got!  Post it, Tweet it, send it, Digg it or Like it.  Just send out the word &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to see what we get!]]></description>
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		<title>BP Oil Spill Lesson Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the horrific environmental damage that will surely impact the Gulf Coast due to the BP oil spill, I thought I would share some thoughts on using this disaster in the classroom.  Unfortunately I think we will still be hashing out the impact of BP&#8217;s spill during August and beyond. The opportunity that teachers have in  this disaster is to provide a background and some understanding of humans&#8217; impact on the environment in which we live.  This would fall right in line with the aptitude of Meaning that Dan Pink discusses in A Whole New Mind. To start with, I would address a bit if history.  We could begin with Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s preservation efforts during the Progressive Era of U.S. history.  President Roosevelt was a vivid outdoorsman, and he had a personal passion for preserving our nation&#8217;s natural resources for future generations.  The Theodore Roosevelt Association has an excellent lesson plan on their site that provides a background into Roosevelt&#8217;s legacy of conservation. You could start this lesson by having students locate the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on a map.  Be sure to mention that this preserve is over 100 years old.  It was the second nature preserve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Plan for Avatar and Empathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been quite a bit of interest generated amongst my colleagues for a lesson plan using Avatar.  I plan on using an activity this week for the movie Avatar that will develop Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of empathy, so I thought I would share it with you. This lesson plan involves using Dr. Milton Bennett&#8217;s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and applying the concept of intercultural competence to the movie Avatar. According to Dr. Bennett, people go through a number of different stages as they learn about and hopefully adapt to different cultures.  Using the six stages from Dr. Bennett, I created this chart for students to complete during the movie Avatar.  I plan on discussing Bennett&#8217;s DMIS model for the first 30 minutes of class, and then have students fill out the chart as they watch Avatar. It sounds like a pretty easy, clean-cut lesson plan for Avatar, and I always enjoy developing Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of empathy in students, especially with an activity over something the love. But Milton Bennett&#8217;s model is complex, and my American History students do not have much formal training in cultural studies.  So I am preparing myself for a number of questions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube Tops Networks’ Primetime &#124; Wired.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 10:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Time Magazine named &#8220;You&#8221; their &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; some time back, I thought it was a cop out.  I thought that this prestigious magazine couldn&#8217;t make the hard call, so they just went with something easy-cheesy. But that was back in 2006.  Then I ran into this article highlighting the fact that YouTube has a higher viewership than the networks.  It&#8217;s worth the time to read the article, but here are a few highlights: YouTube&#8217;s viewership is over 2 Billion per day That is more than all three networks, combined, during prime time A full day&#8217;s worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute Now this by no means indicates the end of network television, but it does raise some interesting questions about what we will consider &#8220;television&#8221; in the future.  After all, who would have thought that user-generated content would be viewed more than something like &#8220;American Idol&#8221;? So maybe Time Magazine was onto something.  Maybe they had considered the demise of the &#8220;Man in the Grey Flannel Suit&#8221; way back four years ago.  Maybe they actually knew that this little upstart known as YouTube would rocket past the networks in just four short years. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futurity.org – Strong racial identity intensifies empathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 10:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article highlights some interesting research into empathy and offers a strategy that may help us develop empathy towards others. According to the research, our &#8220;ability to identify with another person dramatically changes how much we can feel the pain of another and how much we&#8217;re willing to help.&#8221; The case in point is the ability of African-Americans to more fully empathize with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, a large portion of which are African-American. One of the study&#8217;s authors, Joan Chiao, provides a universal concept that she believes should be taken from the study: “We think this is really interesting because it suggests mechanisms by which we can enhance our empathy and altruistic motivation simply by finding ways in which we have commonality across individuals and across groups,” As teachers this study should really be a call to arms.  Since I teach history and cultural studies, this statement resounds intensely with me.  Developing empathy in my students requires that they find commonalities with the people we are studying.  That may be a person from the past or a person from another culture. In one professional development session it was explained to me as a Venn Diagram.  Imagine two circles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-BlackBerry Obama: iPads, iPods Are &#8216;Distraction&#8217; &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This headline was confusing to me, so I had to look a bit further.  But after reading through the context of President Obama&#8217;s comments about technology as a &#8220;distraction&#8221;, his meaning became more clear. I think the gist of the President&#8217;s concerns are found as he discusses the role that constant information has taken in our society.  President Obama stated that information has become more of a &#8220;form of entertainment&#8221; rather than a &#8220;tool of empowerment&#8221;. And as a teacher I have to agree.  I have read some articles that question the validity of texting as a communication tool for example.  Instead, texting could be seen as a form of instantly gratifying entertainment.  After all, do we really need to drop everything we are doing just so we can see the response from our last text? This is where Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of Symphony comes into play.  In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink states that the future belongs to those people that can take seemingly disconnected information and create meaning from it. This is where teachers and education come in.  As the President stated in his commencement address, &#8220;Education&#8230; can fortify you, as it did earlier generations, to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Success Gets into Your Head-and Changes It &#8211; Harvard Business Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting article with evidence that should fundamentally affect the way we teach. Research by MIT neuroscientists shows that our brain actually rewires in response to success.  Now that may not seem groundbreaking, but the corresponding finding might surprise you.  The brain does nothing in response to failure. In other words, if you perform a task and are successful at it, your brain physically changes.  And furthermore, those changes linger for several seconds, making a repeated success much more likely. This article caught my eye because I have always subscribed to the business mantra that &#8220;we learn more from our failures than our successes.&#8221;  But that is not true of your brain.  It actually learns more from success than from failure. The first person that made me question the validity of focusing on your mistakes was Dan Pink in his book Johnny Bunko.  It was Lesson Two: &#8220;Think strengths, not weaknesses&#8221;.  I think that many times I do the opposite.  I focus on my shortcomings.  And as an unfortunate result, I often encourage my students to focus on their own shortcomings.  &#8220;There&#8217;s no need to practice what you&#8217;re good at, practice on what you need to improve.&#8221; As [...]]]></description>
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