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Click through to view embedded content. var s1 = new SWFObject(‘http://www.mrmeyer.com/mediaplayer/player.swf’,'ply’,’428′,’234′,’9′,’#'); s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); s1.addParam(‘wmode’,'opaque’); s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,'image=http://www.mrmeyer.com/wcydwt/live2/holesexcerpt-H.264-300Kbps.jpg&file= http://www.mrmeyer.com/wcydwt/live2/holesexcerpt-H.264-300Kbps.mov&skin=http://www.mrmeyer.com/mediaplayer/overlay.swf&frontcolor=ffffff&lightcolor=cc9900&controlbar=over&stretching=fill’); s1.write(‘mediaspace’); This clip is from the movie Holes, which is inexplicably billed as a movie for kids. (Sue Van Hattum kindly brought it to my attention.) The grim premise is a penal colony of children, each digging one hole [...]

The job of the dramatist is to make the audience wonder what happens next. Not to explain to them what just happened, or to suggest to them what happens next. — David Mamet Once you’ve learned something, my experience is that if you do something with that learning, if you turn your learning into something [...]

Sorry. It isn’t my quote but, seriously, can anyone do better than that for the mandate of the 21st-century social studies teacher? Put it on a mug. Highly recommended: Emily Nussbaum’s profile of David Simon, creator of fine teevee products like The Wire, Generation Kill, and now Treme, his show about New Orlean’s jazz musicians [...]

Session Title Lights, Camera, Action! Fun And Success For All In Algebra Presenter Allan Bellman, Supervisor of Teacher Education, UC Davis Narrative “Why would we want to teach with digital images?” he asked and then answered, “Because it’s better to watch it than read about it.” where “it” referred to any generic textbook problem. I [...]

Be Less Helpful – CMC North 2009 – Dan Meyer from Dan Meyer on Vimeo. Session Title Be Less Helpful Presenter Dan Meyer, High School Math Teacher / Google Curriculum Fellow Narrative 30% of my talk targeted how we teach — the subtle ways we encourage students to stop thinking. 70% targeted what we teach [...]