Turkey Crossing
Education Podcasts
This is a podcast about education and my attempt to use classroom 2.0 tools in my classroom. I examine topics that often go unmentioned in education classes, professional development, and journals. In this crazy world of NCLB and amazing technologies entering the classroom, this podcast is a reminder that we need to first give children our love, not our thoughts. If you are focused on getting your kids to get higher test scores and learn facts, this is not the podcast for you. If you are focused on building relationships with your students and letting them develop the skills needed to survive in the 21st Century, then take a listen. My Blog and wiki http://www.blogush.edublogs.org http://www.edhead.wikispaces.com http://www.morecowbell.wikispaces.com Class wiki and Blog www.collaborationnation.wikispaces.com www.pbogush.edublogs.org The following story captures the spirit of my podcast. I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I throw them back to the sea." As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both directions beyond my sight. Starfish littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot expect to make a difference." The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to me he simply said, "I made a difference to that one." I left the boy and went home, deep in thought of what the boy had said. I returned to the beach and spent the rest of the day helping the boy throw starfish in to the sea. ...based on the story by Loren Eisley
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
This is a podcast about education and my attempt to use classroom 2.0 tools in my classroom. I examine topics that often go unmentioned in education classes, professional development, and journals. In this crazy world of NCLB and amazing technologies entering the classroom, this podcast is a reminder that we need to first give children our love, not our thoughts. If you are focused on getting your kids to get higher test scores and learn facts, this is not the podcast for you. If you are focused on building relationships with your students and letting them develop the skills needed to survive in the 21st Century, then take a listen. My Blog and wiki http://www.blogush.edublogs.org http://www.edhead.wikispaces.com http://www.morecowbell.wikispaces.com Class wiki and Blog www.collaborationnation.wikispaces.com www.pbogush.edublogs.org The following story captures the spirit of my podcast. I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I throw them back to the sea." As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both directions beyond my sight. Starfish littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot expect to make a difference." The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to me he simply said, "I made a difference to that one." I left the boy and went home, deep in thought of what the boy had said. I returned to the beach and spent the rest of the day helping the boy throw starfish in to the sea. ...based on the story by Loren Eisley
Language:
English
Ch-ch-ch-changes....and my lack of power.
Duration:00:21:07
My Kid's first days with wiki's and blogs...
Duration:00:23:30
Convincing the parents that 2.0 is the way to go!
Duration:00:32:40
First Day of School
Duration:00:21:18
"Three Questions"
Duration:00:22:00
How do you get a lesson to stick?
Duration:00:26:24
Give your kids a break!
Duration:00:11:14
Voice Recognition Software
Duration:00:06:43
Why ha-ha leads to Ah-ha
Duration:00:31:46
Welcome two guests!
Duration:00:10:36
Why does lecturing sometimes work?
Duration:00:17:57
Does anyone have the directions for giving directions?
Duration:00:28:23
Connecticut's BEST
Duration:00:04:12
I need your help!!!
Duration:00:15:03
Will more connections outside of the classroom lead to fewer connections inside the classroom?
Duration:00:12:34
Parent Conferences 2.0 -- Using wikis and Flashmeeting
Duration:00:05:56
Daddy I peed! or... What words do you not want to hear while teaching?
Duration:00:10:52
Do you listen to your kids?
Duration:00:18:52
What would be the one thing you would not change about schools? Student Responses.
Duration:00:07:09
If you could change one thing about schools....student responses.
Duration:00:11:42