Summary: Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education. Jokes You Can Use: How does Jack Frost get to work? Why did the face of Joe go to the party by himself? What happened when Ali found out his toaster was not waterproof? How often does Dave Bydlowski make Chemistry jokes? In fact, he told one the other day... Why did Cleopatra fall off the swing? What is orange and sounds like parrots? Eileen Award: Scoopit: Twitter: Facebook: Google+: iTunes: eMail: Advisory: Modeling Share the video with the students. Ask them to describe how the puppy learns to go down the stairs. How can we apply this to our learning? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fDKDC_IUnOA Brief Interruptions Challenge the kids to explain how they multi-task. Use the information from this article to help them realize how they can improve their work. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/brief-interruptions-spawn-errors/ Sexism in Ads http://adsvoice.pblogs.gr/2013/01/sexism-in-vintage-ads.html Misperception Pickpocket at work. Have the kids pay attention to see what he steals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OLm_dQzoC5E Then on Fox news station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dTa7rC1oUnk Finally, On NOVA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fdqSmUnd4cU Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) I was recently reading the Winter 2012-2013 issue of Green Teacher Magazine, a magazine that cares about Education for Planet Earth. I read an article entitled "Zambian Girl Inspires Water Action" written by Michelle Macdonald. It traces the story of a girl named Tikho, who lives in Zambia. She was asked to share the story of her daily life as it related to water, sanitation and hygiene. Her story has provided an example for North American youth to recognize local and global water challenges and look for solutions. From the Twitterverse: Are you smarter than an 8th Grader from 1912? http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bullitthistory/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html … #midleved #mschat #mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. Resources: Three Ways to Create a Digital Classroom Library for Your Students http://www.angelamaiers.com/2013/01/three-ways-to-create-a-digital-classroom-library-for-your-students.html Three Tools Students Can Use for Collaborative Brainstorming on the Web One of the first challenges that students face when beginning to work on a group research project is organizing and connecting all of their ideas. These three tools can help students collaboratively organize their ideas on the web. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/01/three-tools-students-can-use-for.html Guide to Budgeting https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/1611/26335/9h/dramsey.download.akamai.com/23572/daveramsey.com/media/broadcast/mytmmo/pdf/guide-to-budgeting.pdf?ictid=btxt.ny13 Creating Comics Comics apps such as Comic Zeal are compatible with a couple of DRM-free comic book file formats, namely .cbr and .cbz. Those are both compressed formats, related to RAR and ZIP files, respectively. http://www.macworld.com/article/2023746/convert-image-files-to-comics.html http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/01/06/a-taxonomy-for-understanding/ Web Spotlight: Why Scratch Club? By Wesley Fryer On January 10, 2013 Learn more about the IES Scratch Club on scratchclub.yukonps.com. Check out Mason’s Scratch project,“About Me” on the Scratch community website. http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/01/10/why-scratch-club/ Reading Like a History http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh News: Vending Machine Dispenses MacBooks for Student Use AMLE Annual Conference Sessions:
