9.20.2010
NY TImes magazine all devoted to Education + Technology = PLAY
Interesting to read all kinds of approaches that can be incorporated into the classroom. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/09/19/magazine/index.html?ref=magazine
9.13.2010
9.07.2010
Jonathan Kozol reminds us why teaching is so important and beautiful.
It's the birthday of journalist and activist Jonathan Kozol, (books by this author) born in Boston (1936). He worked as public school teacher in Boston and has written many books about the sad state of public education in this country, and about how segregated our schools still are, all based on his own experiences in classrooms and working in poor neighborhoods. His books include Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995), about kids in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx. He said: "Of all my books, Amazing Grace means the most to me. It took the most out of me and was the hardest to write, because it was the hardest to live through these experiences. I felt it would initially be seen as discouraging but, ultimately, sensitive readers would see the resilient and transcendent qualities ... that it would be seen as a book about the elegant theology of children."
In his recent book Letters to a Young Teacher (2007), he combines his opinions on vouchers, No Child Left Behind, and racial segregation, with constant reminders about why teaching is so important and beautiful. Courtesy of the Writer's Almanac.
Kozol said, "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
In his recent book Letters to a Young Teacher (2007), he combines his opinions on vouchers, No Child Left Behind, and racial segregation, with constant reminders about why teaching is so important and beautiful. Courtesy of the Writer's Almanac.
Kozol said, "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
9.05.2010
Social Networking has a new life as fund raiser
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/business/05proto.html
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners. ...Ed Norton knows that a majority of people who now donate to charity don’t do so online; they write checks. But he and his partners contend that Crowdrise, with its mix of edginess, silliness and good-humored competition, can change that habit, especially for young people.
Crowdrise aims to make raising money for a cause not just easy, but also fun. Setting up a page to support something you care about takes less than a minute. Then, friends and family can be invited to be sponsors by donating any amount of money, large or small. You don’t have to run a marathon. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen or do whatever strikes your fancy. But Ms. Wittenberg, who has already sent her e-mail to 33,000 runners based in the United States and will soon send one to the 27,000 or so based elsewhere, hopes that anyone running in New York on Nov. 7 will use Crowdrise to do it for charity.
Once your Crowdrise page is up, anyone can donate to it and join your team.
Crowdrise isn’t the only site that helps with online fund-raising. There are a handful, with FirstGiving.com among the best known. But Crowdrise is different, its founders and users say, because it seeks to build community in much the way that Facebook does.
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners. ...Ed Norton knows that a majority of people who now donate to charity don’t do so online; they write checks. But he and his partners contend that Crowdrise, with its mix of edginess, silliness and good-humored competition, can change that habit, especially for young people.
Crowdrise aims to make raising money for a cause not just easy, but also fun. Setting up a page to support something you care about takes less than a minute. Then, friends and family can be invited to be sponsors by donating any amount of money, large or small. You don’t have to run a marathon. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen or do whatever strikes your fancy. But Ms. Wittenberg, who has already sent her e-mail to 33,000 runners based in the United States and will soon send one to the 27,000 or so based elsewhere, hopes that anyone running in New York on Nov. 7 will use Crowdrise to do it for charity.
Once your Crowdrise page is up, anyone can donate to it and join your team.
Crowdrise isn’t the only site that helps with online fund-raising. There are a handful, with FirstGiving.com among the best known. But Crowdrise is different, its founders and users say, because it seeks to build community in much the way that Facebook does.
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