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August 2008
“The History of Dreams Has Yet to be Written”: Ur-Pedagogy and the Dialectics of Postponed Meetings
Seeing as to how our last couple of reading group meetings continue to get bumped, postponed, and canceled, I’ve decided we’re making the jump online for the discussion of The Dialectics Seeing by Susan Buck-Morss. I’m encouraging all of our members to type up and respond to each other at least a couple of times, [...]
Differentiated Rope Skipping (aka Jump Rope Instructions? Really?)
I was putting away all those “teacher” books from the post below the other day and flipped through one for giggles. I hope this doesn’t come across as overly snarky (though it is a blog…), but do teachers really need instructions on “teaching” jump rope? Am I from, like, Saturn for thinking this is kind [...]
If (And Only If) The Book Fits
Look: See, I like books. I even don’t have space for all of them: Here you can see a handful of smaller books (the efficiently sized Salinger’s and Gatsby, etc.) resting on top of other books, which are actually in front of another row of books. That’s three books in the space designed for one! [...]
No Blog Left Behind
Apparently the ol’ American Crawl has been noted as a blog written by a new teacher in the info box of this article. Don’t know how that happened, but hey, there you go. I’m probably the most famous person I know and realized I don’t gloat often enough on this blog. Secondly (though, strangely, there [...]
An Open Letter of Invitation
Last night I sent out an email to a handful of random folk clogging my address book. In case you feel left out, I’ll post the (now open) letter here for any schmuck that doesn’t have plans for Saturday. “We finally really did it!! You maniacs!”: An Invitation, A Warning! Dear friends, colleagues, and other [...]
The Revolution Does Take Out
This is Sarita’s. If you can’t tell from the blurry picture, it’s a Mexican eatery down the street from where I grew up in Spring Valley. There are dozens of hole-in-the-wall places to grab a burrito, carne asada fries, or whatever else suits your fancy in the neighborhood. I happen to be partial to Sarita’s. [...]
Don’t Dream It’s Over
Seriously, I don’t know how one person can take himself so seriously and still produce something as great as this. If this is what the Olympics is about (goofy puppets, Nike, and arrogant rappers), count me in. And just in case you haven’t been, you are now properly Barack Rolled (thanks Laura!):
I’ll be showing this to my students tomorrow
An older commercial that was just replayed during an Olympic break. In light of my recent thoughts on lowbrow literacy, class discussions about cultural reproduction, and student feelings about marketing, I think there are a lot of possibilities to take this commercial towards a place of possibilities. Thanks Coca Cola! Who else is thirsty?