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Hi, this is Kevin. Hope your summer is going well and you had some time to relax.
I've started a new Ning network for Middle School Science Teachers and I thought you might like to join as you are (may be) also a m.s. science teacher. I thought it would be really good to have just middle school science teachers share some of their labs, demos, concerns, what works and what doesn't about teaching this level. Hope to see you there.
Thanks, Kevin
Kevin
The expression of those ideas has been refined a great deal in the past year thanks mainly to this community, the folk at the Fordham Institute, and Rick Hess & staff at AEI. And while those two groups are excellent at holding to principles, remembering the worst of our schools always, and pinging for good research, its been this group that has really filled in the gap between my own personal experiences and the great wide task that is building an economically sensible education system that respects the civic culture that got us all this far.
I know you work amazingly hard at school, in the field, online, and at home, and just wanted to thank at least you for the work here & at fireside. I have a much greater level of hope today than I did a year ago, primarily due to the collaboration you all are enabling.
If you want to give me a brief "ping" an hour or so ahead of time, we can easily adjust what we're doing. The kids are getting very used to visitors coming in person and via Skype.
Thanks for sharing the Scientific American article. I've just posted the link in my blog, thanking you:
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/01/article-on-the-role-of-effort-in-learning/
This is prob not related to your Creature Project so much, but we do a Monster Exchange earlier in the year to accent descriptive writing. The kids create monsters, write up a descriptive narrative story, and then swap writing. All of the monster drawings are on the wall, and they have to match the art with the writing.
Next year, I would love to do this with another class.
Anyway, we made this movie:
Kevin
It does sound like you're presiding over the evolution of a new kind of homeroom class. Even the mayhem stage sounds exciting, though it probably would come across on a webcam as just chaos. However, when things calm down a bit I'd like to discuss with you how we can share what you're learning with students and teachers everywhere through the World Mind Network. I think your kids could end up being the most famous 4th and 5th graders in the world.
Bob
Sorry to take so long to answer your question!
We at the World Mind Network are really interested in your experience with your new homeroom of 20 4th and 5th graders. Is there any we we can capture part or all of the magic you are exploring with either webcams or video cameras? If so we would be glad to provide them. You can go to worldmindnetwork.net to see some of our webcam feeds.
You may recall that last month I suggested that today's connected kids seem to be creating a new 'species' of humanity, because of their amazing collaborative abilities via MySpace, YouTube, etc. And you had a very insightful comment on my post. It seems that you are facilitating,
or 'midwifing' this change. I would love to share this with the world.
Bob
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