Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
Wow!
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in education, personal | 3 Comments »To my shock and delight, I just got a link notification email from the Edublog Awards website... my post How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci has been nominated as a finalist for "Most influential blog post" in the 2007 ...
Gifted labeling: a force for good and evil, Part 2
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in education, gifted, intelligence, opinion, personal, thought | 1 Comment »First of all, I'd like to announce my participation in Blog Action Day this coming Monday! On "Blog Action Day", October 15, thousands of bloggers will post about one topic - the environment - in many different ways. ...
Gifted labeling: a force for good and evil, Part 1
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in education, gifted, intelligence, opinion, thought | 2 Comments »When I started to write this, I realized that I wanted to say more than could fit in a single post. So, instead of trying to cram it in, I've divided it into two parts, the second of which ...
How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in education, intelligence, opinion, science, thought | 48 Comments »EDIT: This post has been chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Edublog Awards! Thank you to all its readers! :) Earlier today, a friend and former teacher of mine made a post (private on another blog, and therefore unlinkable) ...
…WTF? (+ politics)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, news, opinion, personal, politics, quotes, thought | No Comments »I usually try to save my links until Saturday, but holy crap. BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." ...
Canada isn’t *that* important…
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, politics, thought | 1 Comment »As part of my (Canadian) high school's Social Studies (read: history and government) curriculum, everything we study has a distinctly Canadian bias. This means that, while we cover major events of the twentieth century like World Wars I and ...
Apologies and a pet project
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in education, intelligence, personal | No Comments »Sincere apologies for the lack of updates these past few weeks - things have been... not well, in my life. Things have been bad enough that I haven't been able to find the motivation to write (at least not ...
Seen it, Heard it… Done the Homework
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in education, opinion, thought | 3 Comments »I'm once again pushing aside the topics I want to cover (and I will - more about that later) for a current event - and I use that term very, very loosely here. The "current event" was actually a ...
Recommendations for public education
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in education, opinion, politics | 1 Comment »I've been engaging in a lot of criticism lately, I know. I should be more focused on developing my own ideas rather than deconstructing others', but when this article regarding suggestions for the American public education system made by ...
