January 5, 2008
Yesterday when I blogged the website on Ancient Human Occupation of Britain my post was picked up at the weblog Archaeology in Europe. When I went to that blog, another post there was what the archaeologist David Beard who does the posting called “A very nice Website giving information about the ancient city of Aptera.” One more click, and I was wandering virtually among ancient Minoan stones reading old stories of the Muses.
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January 5, 2008
Today was a professional development day, and we had an interesting guest speaker on the topic of discipline. I wanted to share part of what he discussed today with edubloggers in hopes that we can contribute to the dialogue.
Do you think teaching is harder today than it was for your teachers when you were in school?
Most of my faculty said yes, it is. So did I. Why, I wasn’t sure I could articulate, but I just knew something different exists between teachers and students today that didn’t exist when I was a student myself. Our speaker identified three cultural markers that changed schools and made teaching (and for that matter, parenting) more difficult.
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