A couple of articles for your reading pleasure

From the article "Stop Telling Your Employees What to Do" is not directly about education but does have a lot of applicability to the classroom.  You can read the article by clicking here.

From the article "No Rich Child Left Behind" is an interesting read.  There are some stats that are pretty self explanatory ( Fisterisms included) but interesting.  From the article, "Family income is now a better predictor of children’s success in school than race."   You can read the article by clicking here.

20th Century Advertising

This ebook by Dave Saunders  might be a good resource for a business class or possibly an art class as it has many iconic posters.  This ebook is from the  Mohawk College website.  To see the book, click here.

Top 10 Deadliest Natural Disasters of Canada

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I made this zoomit  from the infograph from DKI website which can be found by clicking here.

Books for Victory

Seventy three years ago today.  The moral of this picture.....you be the judge but I think it is that it is never the wrong time to read.  The date according to this site.  However using a google image search I found an alternate date by clicking here.

Google Lit Trips

This is a free website.  You will have to fill out a quick survey though.

From their website

So What exactly are Google Lit Trips?
The short version is simple. Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.
The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students. I like to say Google Lit Trips “3-dimensionalize” the reading experience by placing readers “inside the story” traveling alongside the characters; looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath.

What Google Lit Trips AREN’T
Google Lit Trips aren’t like sparknotes and other resources that can be used to circumvent the need to actually do the reading. They are designed to stimulate higher level thinking skills and to connect the story’s themes and messages to the issues of the real world in which students live.

To go to the site click here.

Science and Cooking

I have posted about MOOCs before. See Thursday May 2 by clicking here.  Harvard has a course that starts next week for "audit" or for "certificate" (remember free) on Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science.  You can see this by clicking here.  The course starts Tuesday October 8.  

Ipad debacle in Los Angeles Schools

Technology in the classroom is great as long is there is adequate training for students and teachers.  Smartboards, laptops and Ipads can be a great tool.  The Los Angeles school board however has got themselves into a bit of a mess lately.  To read a couple of articles about this click here and here.