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POPSDarfur activists pitch tents in Washington Former U.S. Special Representative to Sudan Roger Winter said that he urged activists to widen their advocacy from Darfur to Sudan as a whole. Winter noted, “Sudan can get much worse. Note that I did not say Darfur can get much worse; I said Sudan can get much worse.”
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POPSGoogle Lit Trips - a mashup of literature and Google Earth "GoogleLitTrips.com is flat out a fantastic project with deep examples of the way technology can be meaningfully integrated into the curriculum. Too often in technology there is a lamentable lag between promise and classroom realization. Jerome Burg closed that gap with GoogleLitTrips. Classical works, modern literature, and wordless primary illustrations are given new life, new access, and a critical new perspective for classrooms. Media, literature, and the earth itself converge here in one of the most exemplary technology integration sites on the educational world wide web. The project's bonus feature is that Jerome himself is a resource who will help you learn from and build GoogleLit projects. By all means, visit, share, and build!"
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POPSUS Textbooks Misrepresent Jews, Israel A glossary entry on the Ten Commandments describes them as "Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai." The same glossary describes the Koran as a "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God." "All in all, there are repeated misrepresentations that cross the line into bigotry," the authors write. Wow. Talk about getting your knickers in a knot. Outrageous misrepresentations? I daren't say a word.
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POPSTechnology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. Paul Saffo, the futurist, says he could divide the technology world into two kinds of people: engineers and natural scientists. He says the world outlook of the engineer is by nature optimistic. Every problem can be solved if you have the right tools and enough time and you pose the correct questions. Other people, who can be just as scientific, see the natural order of the world in terms of entropy, decline and death. Those people aren’t necessarily wrong. But the engineer’s point of view puts trust in human improvement. But over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.
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POPSEarly childhood education must be "bottom up" The Early Ed Watch blog calls on grassroots innovators to enact change, and policymakers to pay attention to what works on the ground. What the post misses is the role of entrepreneurs (not just philanthropists and educators) to play a critical role in innovation.
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POPSCreationism Analyzed Creationists are strongly opposed to to a world brought on by evolution, particularly to a world as described by Charles Darwin in his Origin of Species. Creationists (certainly traditional Creationists) oppose the fact of evolution, namely that all organisms living and dead are the end products of a natural process of development from a few forms, perhaps ultimately from inorganic materials ("common descent"). Creationists also oppose claims about the total adequacy of the Darwinian theory of evolution, namely that population pressures lead to a struggle for existence; that organisms differ in random ways brought on by errors in the material of heredity (‘mutations’ in the ‘genes’); that the struggle and variation leads to a natural form of selection, with some surviving and reproducing and others failing; and that the end consequence of all of this is evolution, in the direction of well-adapted organisms.
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POPSMcCain's VP Choice a Marginal Creationist To be fair, it doesn't appear that McCain's pick for VP is a dyed-in-the-wool creationist but she still believes in the absurd notion that biblical creationism has a ligitimate place in the science classroom. Her ridiculous "teach the controversy" stance is of course the back door ploy by religious fanatics to gain a toehold in public classrooms. I don't see them siding with Native American's to teach their particular creation myth.
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POPSElements brought to life online from BBC News: The chemical elements are being brought to life online in a series of YouTube videos filmed at a UK university. The project by a team in Nottingham is designed to stimulate interest in chemistry and comprises videos illustrating each of the 118 elements. They feature a variety of experiments, some of which are too dangerous to be performed in classrooms. In the videos, scientists also recall personal anecdotes and amazing facts about each element in the table, from hydrogen (1) to Ununoctium (118).
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POPSPelosi Doesn't Know That Natural Gas Is a Fossil Fuel And then, let's not leave Obama out.v Obama says, "I want to make sure in ten years, no more using oil. Not going to use oil in ten years, I'm going to make sure it happens." How are you going to do that, sir? You don't run the market. "I'm going to make sure we have a million cars running on electricity in ten years." Where's electricity going to come from, bumble brain? You don't want any nuclear power plants built to produce it, where the hell are you going to get the electricity, where we going to get it? We get it from coal. Pardon my incredulity here, folks, but, you know, we always ask ourselves, how in the world do we get these people? Why does neither party have somebody worth voting for half the time?
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POPSObama Kogelo School Update: Non-Profit Done! According to Ms. Ochieng, the school principal says that Hopefully he'll nip this one in the bud before the rightists - ahem, FOX News Channel - use it to bash him with here. Especially since 10% of the school's students reportedly are related to him. What the Obama School needs: • Water • Sanitation • Electricity • Remodeling • Security • Maintenance to bring water to the school by sinking a borehole and building a water tank, erect a perimeter fence, complete the science laboratory and add much needed new classrooms, additional latrines, and a school dining hall http://www.luoamerican.com/baldilocks/2008/07/save-obama-scho.html Now the website is being built at obamaschool.org; I will let everyone know when it goes up.
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POPSUnequal corporal punishment in schools Should schools and teachers have the right to use corporal punishment? If they do, how can they make sure it's even? Do certain populations misbehave more often causing the inequity, or does it highlight possible prejudice in the classroom?
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POPSComputers and education Do we need another research centre to find obvious answers? Only when schools are prepared to embrace the information Age/Knowledge Economy paradigm and look afresh at what 'education' is, will we advance. 21st Century tools do not sit comfortably in 19th century institutions, run by unimaginative, autocratic 20th century bureaucrats.
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