Paul Alex Briseno

Drazen Petrovic’s legacy still lives on in the NBA 20 years after his death.

One of my favorite players of all time.

pablophonic:

chalkdust-n-apples:

firstclassroom:

hisnamewasbeanni:

dietcokeporfavor:

Do students still give their teachers apples? I don’t want an apple, I want all my students to bring me bubble tea in the morning.

OH my god that would be the best.

No, I’ve…

The first year I taught I had some students who used to bring me breakfast tacos! haha    Second year of a teaching one of my students mom was a baker at a Mexican bakery and she would occasionally bring me fresh pumpkin empanadas.  

world-shaker:

I loved all of these, but these two in particular:

4. No Failed-Attachment-Trick
Here’s a popular trick. A student sends an email and intentionally forgets to attach the file hoping that this will buy them sometime. This kind of trickery is more difficult with Google Docs. The paper gets written in Google and then all that is left to do is click “share” and enter the professors’ email address. There is no room for the plausible “I forgot to attach it” excuse.

5. Immediate Return to Students
Once you write in comments and slap on a grade, the paper is immediately available for the student. (They can even set up an email alert notice so that they get an email when changes to the paper are made.)

holtthink:

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece about the lack of a need for Instructional Technology-specific conventions like FETC, TCEA or ISTE. The blog entry was not an attack on the organizations themselves, but rather an honest question to the ed tech world at large as to…

Maggie Ciara is a third grade student at Columbus Manor Elementary School in Oak Lawn, Ill. She’s also a Chicago Blackhawks fan, as her teacher discovered in a recent math exam. The question was “what is 9 times 9?” The … Continue reading →

infoneer-pulse:

A teacher received a huge shock last week after uploading a copy of a book to his website that offers free educational resources for students. The Latvian publisher behind the work, a $4.00 history book, complained to the authorities which resulted in the teacher being raided by the police. During interrogation the teacher learned that his mistake could cost him dearly – two years in jail, forced labor, or a fine.

» via TorrentFreak

gjmueller:

If you haven’t seen this by now, high school sophomore Jeff Bliss goes off on his world history teacher, set off by standardized testing times. Why should we care?

Bliss is demanding change—more power to him and all the other students who are fed up with a system that’s broken. Every teacher worth her salt should applaud what he’s clamoring for. And then we need Ms. Phung and all the other fed-up teachers out there to rise up, speak up, and demand change, too.

An even better opinion from a Principal:

I was questioned, both publicly and privately for even sharing this video in the first place and was asked, “If this was one of our teachers, would I share the video?”, and that made me think a lot about this messy world that we live in.  Personally, I wouldn’t but I believe in my heart that it would be addressed to some extent with the teacher. 

The other thing that I thought about was how easily I would have shared something like this regarding other professions. This voice by the “consumer” is happening in every profession, not just teaching.  In no way am I saying that pepper-spraying someone in the face unlawfully compares to having students do packets in the classroom, but our profession is and should be held accountable on how we do our work.

What I encourage others to do is to focus on what the student said, and share their stories about how you do much more than “teach with a packet’.