It’s been a long time since I’ve podcasted from the car. I’m trying to be like my favorite car podcaster.
This blathering is based on a controversial issue that arose in our school district and the way in which people lack both critical thinking skills and the patient problem solving mindset that Dan Meyer talks about. It’s 18 minutes, features car noises and a little rambling.
Also, if anyone can figure out how to fix my itunes feed, I’d be grateful.
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Dean,. Yes I read about this issue as well. Not fun in any way.
How and what did you record this with?
Dave
.-= Dave´s last blog ..How We Teach Math =-.
I have an older iriver mp3 player I got about 4 years ago. Decent mic on it. Edited in on Audacity.
Two comments to make. First, the whole issue of bullying is not as cut-and-dry as people believe it to be. As much as I feel for the family of the boy I know that the division needs to use due-diligence in working through the issue. Because I don’t have all the details, only what was reported and what I’ve read on various sites, it seems that as much as people would like to have a neat solution – brand and flog the bully – my experience is that, were the tables turned, there would be a serious uprising if things were don’t too quickly without due-diligence. My experience, personal, as a parent, as a teacher and as an administrator, is not something that can so easily be solved not neatly packaged. The issues, usually far beyond what most people ever get to see, or actually want to see, have some societal impact. As I have read the comments on various sites, I wonder at the viciousness of the people demanding for severe consequences and “slant” that accompanies each article – they all open the same way. Why? Reporters are, indeed, setting us up to react in one way which really clouds the issues. Unfortunately, our society has grown accustom to the 30-minute fix. This is where my second point begins. Dan really said that? Really? How things change – if you remember our little debate over tv, seems that somewhere in the whole discussion, one of my reasons for not having a tv was because of the unreality of the programming and the way it is unrealistic to solve any problem as it was represented through media like tv and, therefore, we don’t have television. Boggles me mind!
.-= Kelly Christopherson´s last blog ..Exactly what I was thinking! =-.
In this case, the real question is whether or not this is even remotely related to bullying.