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Zombie-Based Learning -- "Braaaaaaains!"

You read that correctly: Zombie-Based Learning. When I started learning about it, my inner geek squealed with joy. I’ve always loved zombies. I’ve watched all the movies and even read the original Wa

Japan’s new revisionism sounds the alarm in China and South Korea

Japanese politicians are making waves by suggesting the imperial army didn’t invade China and ‘comfort women’ were needed for hard-fighting soldiers dodging bullets

positivelypersistentteach:

breakingnews:

Greek member of parliament shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ during session

Washington Post: A Greek member of parliament from the far-right party Golden Dawn is heard shouting ’Heil Hitler’ during an argument with members of the a far-left party, according to reports. 

Here’s what’s thought to have happened: [Panayiotis] Iliopoulos, who had recently assaulted some immigrant vendors at an Athens port, got into an argument with members of Greece’s far-left Syriza party, whom he called “goats” and “filthy, scurrilous” people.

The parliament’s acting speaker, also a member of Syriza, asked Iliopoulos to leave. “Go away before we send you away,” he said, according to the Greek Reporter. As a scrum of Golden Dawn lawmakers filed out of the room, shouting angrily on the way out, “Heil Hitler” is audible at three different moments.

Reuters reports that Golden Dawn denies a neo-Nazi label though its emblem resembles the Swastika and there are published photographs of its supporters giving Nazi-style salutes.

This scares me.

firebolting:

havisham | world-shaker:

Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe? 

Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity. 

Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens. 

Dickens and Dickinson had a fight over the expression ‘What the Dickens’.

ALSO LEAVE POE ALONE HE HAD A HARD LIFE.

Shakespeare adds the adjectives “handsome and lovely” before his name.

(via booksandquills)

godiseven:

ODE TO BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hitherto Unexplored.: Two really cool teaching ideas I had:

eoforhild:

1. Teach The Odyssey as a timeless story by relating it to high school. The teachers are the gods, some benevolent and some malevolent (in the eyes of the students), who can help or hinder. The monsters are problems (grades, people, life). Penelope and Ithaca are the goals for…

Good ideas!

from-student-to-teacher:

[source:quickfoodideas]

• Question: what do you mean by a due date chart? - elviajedelaesperanza
• Answer:

  What you can do is take a poster-board size piece of paper, and in different columns Write the Name of the assignment, Date Assigned, Date Due.  Use cards that fit inside the size of box for each cell in the chart (whatever size you make it), and you can reuse them if you laminate them.  I’ve found using a large poster rather than a small-ish one allows students to check it more regularly, since its a much more prominent size in the classroom. 

taxidermyextaordinaire:

In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden gave a lion he had killed to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion before, and this was the result

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