October 31, 2006 – 2:53 am
According to Webster’s 1828 dictionary of American English, fun means:
Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word.
The word probably descends from Middle English, fon, meaning “to befool.” By 1685, it meant “to cheat, hoax” and later meant “trick, hoax, practical joke.” This older meaning is still preserved in the phrase, “to make fun of.” [...]
October 30, 2006 – 9:47 am
I was going to post the second part of my take on the fun of education, but time is at a premium.
So, instead, I’ll direct to you to this fun little activity. Using square dancing to teach basic concepts such as left, right, circle, square, in and out as well as clockwise and counter-clockwise? [...]
October 29, 2006 – 6:39 am
What did I say about technology? Now I have an invisible post. It is right there between this one and the one on the Joys of Technology.
Except you can only view it through a direct link. No amount of refreshing is bringing it up. “There are errors,” indeed. I think [...]
October 29, 2006 – 6:00 am
It should be dull and irrelevant. Students should display no confidence in their abilities in the subject. And a healthy dose of low self-esteem goes a long way.
This is the difficulty of relying on test scores to define success in education. It is also the difficulty of making international comparisons. However, [...]
October 27, 2006 – 4:40 am
Right now, for some unknown reason, I cannot email. I hit “reply” or “compose” and come to a screen with the address and subject line and a box to check for attachments. But no entry box. Is yahoo messed up, or is it just me? I tried sending something as an [...]
October 26, 2006 – 5:47 am
On Friday 20 October 2006 at around 7.30 a.m. the children of a home educating family in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg were brought under duress to school by police. This action is rarely undertaken in this part of Germany.
The Romeikes, from Bissingen, have been home educating their children since the start of the school [...]
October 24, 2006 – 2:34 pm
I’m not quite sure how I’ve managed it, but I seem to have messed up my 17 month old. She comes to me with her arms up wanting to be picked up and says, “Down! Down!”
No amount of repeating, “Up” is doing any good. She just keeps insisting she wants down.
It started [...]
October 20, 2006 – 3:19 am
Science comes from the Latin root scio, meaning knowledge. Essentially, the study of science is a method of reasoning to learn more about the world around us rather than a collection of discrete facts or even principles, theories and laws. The scientific method is at the heart of the study of science, thus [...]
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