MSM 236: A Quandary, 200 calories and Cross Cutting Concepts of Baby Food

Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education.

Jokes You Can Use:

Eileen Award:

Scoopit:

Twitter:

Facebook: Brigitte Darling

Google+: Jim Peterson

iTunes:

eMail:

Advisory:

Quandary

http://www.quandarygame.org/

Check out the Teacher’s page: http://www.quandarygame.org/teachers

One Sentence Stories

Have students create one sentence stories that describe them in the future. These can be video’d.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ndqdD6EXat4#!

Dan Pink’s Version:

http://www.danpink.com/2011/01/whats-your-sentence-the-video

Baby’s first foods

http://visual.ly/babys-first-foods-around-world

200 Calories

What does 200 calories look like?

http://imgur.com/a/w9nHF

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

Cross Cutting Concepts

From the Twitterverse:

Resources:

Tapestry

http://tapestry.is/

Historical Dictionary

A glossary of historical terms

http://www.historytoday.com/dictionary

Public Domain Images

These are images that are free to use for presentations.

http://pixabay.com/

Web Spotlight:

In Iowa, our Department of Education brags about elementary schools that cut recess

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2013/02/in-iowa-our-department-of-education-brags-about-elementary-schools-that-cut-recess.html

A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments of Teaching

by Maria Popova

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/02/a-liberal-decalogue-bertrand-russell/

Several years ago, we decided to design a more comprehensive way of evaluating our students' success in our middle school. We acknowledged that grades are just one measure of how students can experience success in school.

The SAP has changed our school. Our students are aware of where they are in their education experience, and have ownership in the process. Almost every student knows his or her grades, attendance, Acuity and STAR score as well as overall points. Students, parents, teachers, and administrators are crystal clear about whether a student is on track to pass or fail.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/guest-post-student-accountability.html

The Independent Project

The Independent Project is an alternative student driven school-within-a-school that was started at Monument Mountain Regional High School by a student.

Eight students were accepted into the pilot program of the school, which ran for one semester and is now complete. The school, dubbed The Independent Project, is now in the stage of redesign and replication.

http://www.theindependentproject.org/the-white-paper/

Mycestro™

A 3D mouse that fits on the index finger and allows you to control your computer with hand gestures and mouse functions.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mycestro/mycestrotm-the-next-generation-3d-mouse?ref=live

Markup

Our mission is to achieve a paperless classroom. With Markup, teachers can grade assignments on the iPad.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834203895/markup-paperless-grading-for-teachers?ref=category

News:

Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history

“The fallacy of competitive education is its obsession with remembered right answers. The fallacy of right answers is that today success depends less on right answers and more on finding good answers and using them to accomplish meaningful goals. What does the game of school do to children who are more inclined to find and invent good answers than memorize correct answers?

….

As long as we race [to the top], scoring points by teaching the same answers for the same tests to every child, then we’re perfectly preparing a generation for its own history.”

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2013/02/perfectly-preparing-a-generation-for-its-own-history.html