Feb 27, 2008
Carnival of Education #160: Tools and thought provoking discussion for students, educators, and more
Hello everyone! This is my first time hosting a blog carnival, but it is the 160th Carnival of Education! I got a lot of submissions for this week and chose the best ones to share with you today. Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of the carnival of education, let’s get started! When you’re done with these links, be sure to check out all the higher education content you can find right here on my site : )
General Education
Alvaro with the Brain Fitness Center at SharpBrains gives us some helpful suggestions for how to keep our brains in tip top shape–he also hosted the 159th carnival!
Should parents pay for college (in whole or in part)? An interesting question… and one that I’m glad my parents answered basically in the affirmative.
Phil says that, paying for college or not, parents should do more to teach their kids patience. It took too long to read everything he wrote so I’m not quite sure, however, of what the entire post was about–I guess I’m just in such a rush all the time!
Noirlecroi is a big fan of blog carnivals, which is good, because it makes me want to link to their review of Mosaic of Thought, a book about teaching comprehension, that much more.
The Daily Grind provides a suggested Student Code of Ethics… what do you think about it?
Matthew K Tabor writes about the links between baseball and education, and they’re more compelling in the context of the UFT than you might have imagined.
Great for Educators and Teachers
When, and if, to use if instead of when: tips from So You Want to Teach? about just that–teaching.
For more tongue twisting fun, consider the post about questioning questions, or at least the way teacher-questioners question. Lead from the Start ponders this and more in the context of preschool.
In case these other posts were sounding too cheery, read about this nightmare situation from Scenes from the Battleground, a blog about teaching in tough situations.
On the note of troublesome students… Siobhan has a teaser about what he’s doing dealing with tough COLLEGE students.
But we shouldn’t always blame the students! What about when parents make it difficult for students to stay in class by constantly moving? Bluebird’s Classroom tells us about this unfortunate trend in certain seventh grade classrooms.
Any history teachers reading? History is Elementary has a post about hundreds-of-years-old fashion styles as it relates to teaching. Check it out.
Speaking of history–over at Scheiss Weekly we have a post asking whatever happened to the unsung heroes?
Does school kill poetry? Read Jennifer Ward’s take on it.
Social Commentary about Education
The relationship between New York education policy, great apes, and why the teachers wants Joel Klein to understand more about teaching. All this and more at Under Assault, now!
They’re not the only ones with complains about New York City schools: check out what Education Notes has to say on the subject.
SwitchedOnMom says that there should be more field trips. I totally agree.
EduWonkette wants to ask you what you think of different approaches to mitigating the achievement gap… and also to remind you to try to avoid being food poisoned.
Which brings us to Dave’s commentary on some problems with metrics for measuring high school drop out data in California. What lessons can be learned from different measurement techniques?
General Educational Resources
SarahSpy has a great listing of free / pay-whatever days at a long list of NYC museums. Definitely worth checking out, sending along.
Life. Money. Development, writes about the seven habits of highly effective students… and how to acquire them. By clicking that link, presumably.
Web Tools for Students, Educators, and More
OEDb has some excellent (50!) tools for students and educators alike for use on the web, for research and learning. Check out their top 50 tools for researchers and students.
Bill Ferriter, 6th grade, teacher, is encouraging teachers to use RSS, in Pageflakes for Teachers, a good informative post.
CollegeDegree.com mentions 25 excellent tools for librarians. While most of these are fairly commonsensical, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of some avenues that might be missed; worth looking at for others in a similar situation.
Some fun math games, courtesy Let’s Play Math.
Successful Teaching writes about blogging in the classroom– always a great subject.
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And that’s it for this edition of the carnival… Submit your blog article to the next edition of the carnival of education using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. The next edition is currently set for March 12. Thanks for reading, and be sure to have a look around my site before you go!
[Brief note on my selection methodology, since concerns have arisen in the comments: some people thought I was overly selective with this carnival, but I put in almost every post that was about education... if you or someone you know was left out, it was most likely not intentional. I volunteered to host this carnival after another, for March, was already ticketed; this means that if you submitted a post BEFORE my carnival for this date was open, it may have been directed there instead and so you might not have been left out at all, you might just have to wait two weeks.]
“It’s a miracle to see curiosity surviving from conventional education.” Albert Einstein
You’re not making very many friends by dissing people’s blogs like that. And what’s with all the exclamation points? Are you a cheerleader or something?
Point taken, Allison–edited to be nicer to the carnival community. But I stand by my statements about spammy blogs and off-topic ones: submitting something in no way related to education that looks Made for Adsense is NOT good for the community and is just a hassle for whoever is running the carnival. It might get links when people are being lazy, but multiple submissions for the same unethical site do not make me happy.
Oh, well, maybe next time. . . .
Although, I sure never dreamed I was spammy, off-topic, or nothing but an ad for something.
I didn’t receive any submission from your blog…?
Thanks for including me. I enjoyed some new blogs.
Mamacita–it’s included now. Sorry about that weirdness! No problem, SwitchedOn–cool article.
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Seriously check out http://teachers.pageflakes.com
They really care about making it easier on teachers and their students.
Wow, pageflakes has gotten pretty cool of late–I haven’t been there in ages, or at least don’t remember it being so slick. Cool.
Correction: http://teacher.pageflakes.com
Ahh, that works better. That looks really handy–I just forwarded it to a few of my old teachers, will see what they think about it.
I have discovered the problem, and it be me. Well, not me entirely, but I’m involved.
For some odd reason, the carnival submission form has me listed as the next host. The problem is that I am not hosting until March 12. But apparently, all these submissions have been coming to me since last week. I only noticed that tonight, because they had been going to my Bulk folder. Ironically, the post that I submitted this week came back to me as well — no wonder it wasn’t included today.
I sent an email to Ed to try to fix the problem, but just a note to everyone — you might want to skip the submission form next week and directly email the host — whenever that is decided.
Yes, that’s what my bottom edit was about. It’s not really your fault, just a systematic one–I volunteered to have a carnival in between yours and the one previous, so submissions started shifting to me instead of you, but people had this weird temporal discontinuity… e.g., I have submissions queued up for YOURS, I think. So… yeah. It’s confusing. I had a lot of mine get caught in spam, too, but tried to save them all.
Hi! Hosting the education carnival is a large responsibility because of the many, many submissions. You certainly can become an expert at linking when hosting. Having to do it along with a little linking confusion with submissions makes the task even more monumental. I thought those types of things only happened to me.
Thanks for hosting and take a deserved break!
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