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
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
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.
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…
"Training teaches how to carry out a specific task more efficiently and reliably. Education, on the other hand, opens and enriches a person’s mind. To train a person, you need know nothing about who they really are, or what they love, or why. Education reaches out to embrace the whole person. Historically, we have treated money as a matter of training, rather than education in its wider and more dignified sense."
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.