Saturday, April 2, 2016

Melinda Gates: Poverty Is Sexist http://flip.it/udi.b

Melinda Gates: Poverty Is Sexist http://flip.it/udi.b


http://flip.it/udi.b

This Super-Efficient Building High in the Rocky Mountains Has No Central Heat http://flip.it/4BYQG

Use as one of many starting points for writing, thinking, seeing:

Multiple articles on variety of topics, all focused on positive steps,
innovations, design
Students pick topic and article, respond to ideas presented by
imagining how this achievement may end up affecting us in the future,
what other ideas do these inspire in them? Or write a fictional piece
inspired by it.

This Super-Efficient Building High in the Rocky Mountains Has No
Central Heat http://flip.it/4BYQG


http://flip.it/4BYQG

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

AP Capstone: a way to see the course: Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is http://flip.it/a_NFa

Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon
Valley Is http://flip.it/a_NFa


http://flip.it/a_NFa

Lead poisoning: America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere. - Vox

Nationwide problems:

America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It's everywhere. - Vox


http://www.vox.com/2016/1/21/10811004/lead-poisoning-cities-us

Flint: more scientific article with video

Flint article with personal story, video, and multiple authors

Flint Legionnaires Disease

A more thorough article with an author: from The Detroit News


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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Sunday, January 17, 2016

PAP 9 & AP Cap: Research social issue: Rape, Social Justice: What's Being Done To Address The Country's Backlog Of Untested Rape Kits http://flip.it/cheQb

What's Being Done To Address The Country's Backlog Of Untested Rape
Kits http://flip.it/cheQb


http://flip.it/cheQb

AP Capstone: Argument analysis work: Ronald Reagan made it all worse: How Republicans — the real party with their hands out — convinced white America tha… http://flip.it/OHV_X

Copy, paste, annotate, and design specific questions to cause students
to dig in to the deliberate diction and rhetoric. Pair with article on
when republicans and democrats switched in the South.

Ronald Reagan made it all worse: How Republicans — the real party with
their hands out — convinced white America tha… http://flip.it/OHV_X


http://flip.it/OHV_X

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Pre-AP 9: Choosing a Research Project

These are the 19 things that scare businesses the most right now



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AP Capstone: Perspective Study on Rape from a comepletely unexplored perspective: Article: My husband raped two women — and I had to answer for his crimes

My husband raped two women — and I had to answer for his crimes

vox.com • I was writing a thank-you card for a wedding gift when I heard the knock at my door. It was 2005, I was 30 years old, and my life was about to change …

http://flip.it/PtXIB

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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Re: Use with Zachary's two videos on the refugee crisis The Quagmire of the Middle East: Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same dumb mistakes http://flip.it/BBTiP

The author of this piece was a Republican congressional aide for 28 years. https://www.google.com/search?q=mike+lofgren&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

On Sunday, January 10, 2016, Tosha Caston-Smith <tcastonsmith@hoover.k12.al.us> wrote:
The day after the Fair Wind, Student-Driven Research Projects.

Must think about how student groups can help with the research project.

Grouping for technology, presentation, grammar, spelling

Students walk their groups through the process just like I did. How can they present to each other best? What is the purpose of presenting, and how can they help each other?

Are there any holes in the intro of the topic? Have they missed something important? Are their questions progressing as the presentation continues? Is the real world connection present, and does it add to the presentation? Word choice? Colors? Fonts?
Does the presenter show evidence of research?
What questions would you ask after the presentation? Where would you go?

Rethink your positions and logic:

I want students to rethink their positions on world events.

to challenge what they know & believe, to show them that they are not even aware of how much they don't know about something in the news, something they already have an opinion of.

This may open their eyes to the global nature of our lives. I want them to see the refugees as people - people with different cultures, religions, ideas, opportunities. They should see that those people are also our people, and those people need  us/to join us in seeking solutions to the very real problems we face - environment, education, food, not fleeing violence, missing school, having to think only of survival.

Return to Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same dumb mistakes http://flip.it/BBTiP


http://flip.it/BBTiP


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Tosha Caston-Smith
See my site and blogs at http://bit.ly/sphstcs

Use with Zachary's two videos on the refugee crisis The Quagmire of the Middle East: Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same dumb mistakes http://flip.it/BBTiP

The day after the Fair Wind, Student-Driven Research Projects.

Must think about how student groups can help with the research project.

Grouping for technology, presentation, grammar, spelling

Students walk their groups through the process just like I did. How
can they present to each other best? What is the purpose of
presenting, and how can they help each other?

Are there any holes in the intro of the topic? Have they missed
something important? Are their questions progressing as the
presentation continues? Is the real world connection present, and does
it add to the presentation? Word choice? Colors? Fonts?
Does the presenter show evidence of research?
What questions would you ask after the presentation? Where would you go?

Rethink your positions and logic:

I want students to rethink their positions on world events.

to challenge what they know & believe, to show them that they are not
even aware of how much they don't know about something in the news,
something they already have an opinion of.

This may open their eyes to the global nature of our lives. I want
them to see the refugees as people - people with different cultures,
religions, ideas, opportunities. They should see that those people are
also our people, and those people need us/to join us in seeking
solutions to the very real problems we face - environment, education,
food, not fleeing violence, missing school, having to think only of
survival.

Return to Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same
dumb mistakes http://flip.it/BBTiP


http://flip.it/BBTiP

Donald Trump talks at a fourth-grade level. Maybe that’s why the Fox News audience loves him http://flip.it/_wHpu

Wonderful exploration of the anti-intellectual programming of
propaganda. This piece would lead to many different aspects of
exploration.

Donald Trump talks at a fourth-grade level. Maybe that's why the Fox
News audience loves him http://flip.it/_wHpu


http://flip.it/_wHpu