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Come See Magic
Dead face, eyes shut against our world now. Pale skin, his familiar features that once transmitted such fiery energy, obviously powerless now. A sick feeling suddenly weakened me as I stood there staring at my lifeless brother, and I caught my breath to keep myself from falling. I could feel tears starting to form in the back of my eyes that would soon rush out to publicize my moment of excruciating sadness, so to counteract the occurrence of that event I blinked hard and stood up straighter. Several United States flags surrounded and covered my brother, and their image swam in the small amount of tears which I hadn’t been able to prevent. I raised my right hand up by my forehead and gave my brother Andrew the most respectful, crisp, solemn, and heart-felt salute I had ever given him. And then I turned and slowly walked away.
By Susan Moore3 years ago in Education
Dana Didn't Know The Difference
The other day in class a student of mine said “I didn’t know that we could learn about science in art class.” In the teaching field this is what is called an “aha” moment, and it’s kinda what we live for. I was teaching my third grade students about shadows and silhouettes. As an art teacher I have learned over the years that this is something students tend to get confused about as it is common to think that shadows and silhouettes are the same thing but they are not!
By Tiffanie Maas3 years ago in Education
Love 'N' Security
Hey, guess what's not the norm but loved by society? Being incredibly smart! With so many 'outlets' on the internet a.k.a websites, that require your login accounts, I just wanted to get into data security because I'm really smart and have a really 'big head'. Not just in college to protect society. But also to make that knowledge spread. My name is Dana and I figured I could contribute, at 25 years old, with a PHD in data security, year of 2012 in my classroom to any future students who just simply wanted to protect. So I had this one student, Simon, who seemed very diligent, consistent. He also was, seemingly enough, very, very likeable. He had to be past my age though, let's not get it twisted. And so I wanted to focus on him more, naturally. But I noticed that with his likeness, other women whether in the classroom and probably off campus would try to get in on his 'good side'. Okay get in his 'campus'? I'll just cut to the chase-- they get his number, sleep with him and of course, he puts it in his little black book. Watching his game throughout my class though, expectedly enough, that's exactly what ended up happening. The names of all these hoes had to be there and with my vanity issues, I just wanted to know how many women he'd been saying yes to. Well was it my luck, when one day he left behind his miniature-boom-boom-tracker in my classroom. To my surprise as I, of course, read through it, there were all these unencrypted details of these accounts, some for social subscriptions and another which I could tell regarded his bank information. The usernames and the passwords. Of course, of all the logins I looked at, it was the bank sign in one, in his booklet, because being a student is tough. Let me tell you, the sum of money I found in his account. He was a billionaire! $9,760,000,000 worth! I thought about why he would need help with the subjects of data security, programming, and all the other things I teach in my class. As far as the money he already had, he must either have inherited his daddy’s money or maybe he was already an entrepreneur -- of what--I didn’t know. But with my guidance I knew it would be beneficial for him, I just knew. Putting the two and two together I realized he could start his own business. Online. Which was the new way to go about it, then and now. Making his own websites from scratch, updating, upgrading and just overall tech savvy. And basically behind every aspect in his ‘business’. With the least amount of investment of time and money, tuition and equipment fees, and the most amount of output of my classes,...He could be or be even more independent -- and for me I could finally have a reason for being on my game about teaching and parading around the class with a tight dress! I was so insecure! Like, what does it take to get a man! Immediately, I needed to forget that he was just my 'good looking' student and realise, either way of how I wondered how he had this money, that he was of high prestige-- basically 'rich'... and 'good looking'... and my student... and my age! Five minutes passed after these wonders and realizations and someone was knocking on the classroom door. It was him. Now I'm pretty straight forward so I logged out of his bank account influenced by those pretty numbers on the screen. Him walking in though and then what he said next, you could tell he was pretty straight forward too. But what really stood out to me was to get that he was smart enough to recognise why his long-ass passwords are stronger--which is also one of the things I teach in my class-- but not smart enough to retain them in his head. So I said of the passwords, "So, you know they were just supposed to be easy but random associations?". So, he civilly gassed, "Well yeah... I mean it 'worked' right?" Let's just say recently, I bought a $100,000 engagement ring. That's more than my tuition was in '08.
By Victoria Frazer3 years ago in Education
4 main differences between American English and British English.
There is no doubt that English is and will continue to be one of the most popular and spoken languages on the planet. This language is the official language in 57 countries around the world, despite this, it is estimated that English is spoken in 3/4 of the globe, taking into account that according to the UN (United Nations), there is 193 countries around the world; this would be equivalent to English being spoken in approximately 145 countries. It is without a doubt the language of science, technology, music and business, however there are two types of dialects which have become standardized and predominate among people who want to learn this language, these dialects are American and British . Pretending to think that one is better than another, is from my point of view absurd, since that type of comparison is very subjective and is not the subject of analysis in this article, then we will analyze the main differences between them.
By tasica campbell3 years ago in Education
Got a Key?
Let me just start by saying that I have the utmost respect for teachers. Regardless of the age or grade they teach, these are truly special people. It takes someone with the right personality and temperament to be put into a room with anywhere between 10-40 kids/teenagers/adolescents. Who am I kidding? It takes a special person to be able to teach 1. It takes a super hero to teach more than that, more than once.
By Emma Merritt3 years ago in Education
Strange Mr. Keller
Strange Mr. Keller By Tanya Curran I had a teacher named Mr. Keller for Science in High School. He was a middle-aged man in his late 40’s. He was a stupendous, little man with slightly grey hair, he was balding, and wore glasses. He had a hardy laugh, and great vigor for teaching the subject of science. He was also a bit quirky at times. He would wear a pocket protector full of pens in his shirt and line them of according to height with a little black notebook tucked snuggly behind the pens, and he snorted whenever he laughed. He was not much in the way of fashion, but had a very studious air about him. He would always go out of his way to help you understand anything you had a problem with in his class. He was a very kind man. He started acting surprisingly suspicious though in the latter part of the year. He would pop up out of nowhere. It was like one minute he was there, and the next nowhere to be found. A few occasions I caught him walking out of the janitor’s maintenance closet. “Why would he be in there?”, I wondered.
By Tanya Sires Curran3 years ago in Education
The Teacher
Hair thrown in a messy bun to disguise the shine of grease, Ms. Sato shuffled into her classroom. Dumping her backpack, binders and cloth grocery bag she exhaled, exhausted. If energy had existed within her body, she would have laughed at the overwhelming feeling of exasperation and isolation.
By Carissa Sato3 years ago in Education
Excellence In Education As A National Priority
Learning is a complex process. We learn by building on past experiences; by trial and error; by starting with simple tasks and combining them over time to accomplish more complex tasks; and, by gaining insight and understanding of the relationship between various parts of a problem. Research demonstrates that for teaching to be effective, a learner must be able to create meaningful relevant patterns. The process of learning must be maintained within a context of appropriate and challenging standards.
By Megan Wilson3 years ago in Education
Zoom Breakout Rooms
If you love being in the classroom teaching as much as I do, then this past year has been quite an adjustment for us both. Back in March of 2020, the face of education changed, and this made a lot of teachers uncomfortable. I know I was asking myself how I was going to deliver the same material the same way I always had. My “go-to” in class was groupwork and changing over to Zoom seemed like it was going to throw a wrench in the works, so to speak. I had never used Zoom before, and the small crash course my college gave didn’t really prepare me for what I was getting into. How was I going to have my students work together? Could I achieve the same results virtually that I did face to face? Then, I learned the breakout room feature, and I realized I could have my students work with each other just as if we were in class. So, I used some of the group activities that I had used face to face, and one of my favorites is the activity on logos, pathos, and ethos.
By Mike Johnson3 years ago in Education