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If A High School Fears Blogging, What
Lesson Is It Teaching Students?

If A High School Fears Blogging, What
Lesson Is It Teaching Students? 03/30/2005 06:50 AM
Isn't it great that our high schools are teaching students to fear new things? It's nothing new, of course. When I was in high school, there was a minor controversy over the fact that Walkmans were banned from the school. The principal declared that it was the biggest threat facing our education -- despite the very real drug problem and disturbing weapons problem (this was before metal detectors were common on school grounds) students faced. So, the talk last week about sc hools banning iPods didn't seem all that new. It's just the same thing, updated for a new technology. Ignore the real problem (drugs and weapons are still making their way into schools) and focus on something that's easy to spot: white headphones. However, sometimes this fear of the "new" goes to bizarre extremes. While it's not quite as bad as the various headlines and coverage suggest, there is a school in New Jersey that seems to fear blogging. The headline claims that the school has "banned blogging," but it's really just blocking a particular blogging site (not named). The problem is the reasoning: "blogging is not an educational use of school computers." While the importance of "blogging" specifically is overhyped, teaching students how to better use technology to communicate is an important skill -- and one that blogging does provide. The fact that a blogging site is banned from the school won't stop the kids from blogging -- but it does make the whole activity that much more enticing for them, without any supervision. If the school were smart, it would be encouraging blogging, while teaching kids to understand both the risks and the benefits of communicating online. Instead, the lesson the kids are learning is that pretending something doesn't exist or isn't "educational" is the proper way to react to something you don't understand.

tech.life@school | Educators get help to
improve teaching skills

tech.life@school | Educators get help to
improve teaching skills 04/29/2004 06:33 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 29 2004 11:16AM GMT

tech.life@school | Teaching students how
to navigate Internet

tech.life@school | Teaching students how
to navigate Internet 05/13/2004 03:31 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer May 13 2004 8:02AM GMT

"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." "

"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." " 11/12/2003 02:57 PM

High-tech play analyzing technology
giving high school football an edge

High-tech play analyzing technology
giving high school football an edge 12/05/2003 07:47 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 5 2003 6:33PM ET

TeachersDomain.org Launches Civil Rights
Special Collection

TeachersDomain.org Launches Civil Rights
Special Collection 05/31/2004 07:05 PM
Imagine learning about the civil rights movement directly from the people who were there Rosa Parks describes her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Reverend C.T. Vivian and Zecosy Williams reflect on the voting rights struggle in Alabama, and Miriam McClendon remembers what it was like to be arrested and jailed at age fourteen when she participated in the Children's Crusade of 1963. These voices and many more are part of The Civil Rights Special Collection launching on TeachersDomain.org the week of May 17th to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling.

High School Reunion

High School Reunion 04/07/2005 12:00 AM
After reading Heather’s post about high school photos, I turned to a photo that I keep on my desk at work. In this picture, Ben and I are 17 and a couple weeks shy of our first date. At this...

Robots in High School

Robots in High School 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
A San Francisco Chronicle article describes an unusual class at San Ramon Valley High School where there are no desks and no lectures. It's a class that students actually want to attend, even though it means staying at school as late as 8pm and coming in on Saturdays. It's a robotics class where the students work on a robot for the annual FIRST competition. Last year the student's entry placed second out of the 46 teams competing in their region.

iBook Goes To High School

iBook Goes To High School 06/02/2004 08:56 AM
Arthur Philip High School in Parramatta has taken posession of 100 Apple iBook laptops to gain the sort of Internet access its better resourced peers take for granted. By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld Australia (via MyAppleMenu)

Purse Ban Rescinded at Wis. High School
(AP)

Purse Ban Rescinded at Wis. High School
(AP) 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
AP - After a flurry of objections from female students, Franklin High School's new principal says a policy that would have required them to store purses in their lockers during the school day will not be enforced.

HP high-tech IT for Egyptian school

HP high-tech IT for Egyptian school 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
AME Info Jun 23 2004 5:25AM GMT

Prosser High School wee bit touchy

Prosser High School wee bit touchy 04/26/2004 06:57 PM
Prosser High School teacher sees 15 year old student's war artwork depicting President Bush as a devil and another decapitated. Captions include calling an end to the war, and support for Ralph Nadar. Teacher hands artwork over to school administrators, who in turn bring in the Secret Service. Because that's what you do when you've handed out an assignment to kids "to keep a notebook of drawings depicting the war in Iraq".

Ga. High School to Pay Student
Informants (AP)

Ga. High School to Pay Student
Informants (AP) 04/11/2005 10:31 AM
AP - A high school is looking for a few good snitches. Using revenue from its candy and soda sales, Model High School plans to pay up to $100 for information about thefts and drug or gun possession on campus.

High School Procession at the Draft

High School Procession at the Draft 06/25/2004 02:16 AM
Orlando, faced with the choice between defense and immediacy or versatility and potential, chose the latter with the top pick in Thursday's N.B.A. draft.

Hacker High School Starts to Spread

Hacker High School Starts to Spread 04/09/2005 03:08 PM

High school kids tie-wrapped for
protesting war

High school kids tie-wrapped for
protesting war 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
Snapshots of cops cuffing anti-war kids with tie-wrap on Market Street in SF. I guess there weren't any fajita thieves to bust that day.Lin k Discuss (Thanks, Paul!)

What Is RSS-Blog-Furl High School
Missing?

What Is RSS-Blog-Furl High School
Missing? 03/06/2004 01:48 AM

Morning at RSS-Blog-Furl High School

"English teacher Tom McHale sets down his cup of coffee and boots up the computer at his classroom desk. It’s 6:50 in the morning. After logging in, he opens up his personal page on the school Intrablog. There, he does a quick scan of the New York Times front page headlines and clicks through one of the links to read a story about war reporting that he thinks his student journalists might be interested in. With a quick click, Tom uses the 'Furl it' button on his toolbar, adds a bit of annotation to the form that comes up, and saves it in his Furl journalism folder which archives the page and automatically sends the link and his note to display on his journalism class portal for students to read when they log in. Next, he scans a compiled list of summaries that link to work his students submitted to their Weblogs the night before. With one particularly well done response, he clicks through to the student’s personal site and adds a positive comment to the assignment post. He also 'Furls' that site, putting it in the Best Practices folder which will send it to the class homepage as well for students to read and discuss, and to a separate Weblog page he created to keep track of all of the best examples of student work. It’s 7:00...." [Weblogg-ed News]

Check out the full text of this amazing post by Will Richardson. In it, he pulls together the beginning threads of integrating blogs, RSS, and social bookmarking in an educational setting. It's a great vision, one that I fully believe will eventually happen in one integrated app.

However - and this is a big however - the only time the library shows up in Will's post is when the teacher unsubscribes from the library's feed! There's no mention of a topical feeds from the library, use of library databases to support research or assignments, no collaborative collection of web-based resources managed by the library, or any other daily interaction with the library and its resources. It's actually pretty sad when you think about it, but unfortunately, it will be accurate if librarians don't start understanding, using, and providing information to these types of tools.

Old school solution for high-tech
adverts

Old school solution for high-tech
adverts 06/02/2004 12:07 PM
Business Report Jun 2 2004 3:30PM GMT

High School Smoking Rate Drops, CDC Says
(AP)

High School Smoking Rate Drops, CDC Says
(AP) 06/17/2004 04:20 PM
AP - Smoking among U.S. high school students has fallen to about one in five — the lowest level in at least a generation — in a drop-off the government attributes to anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette taxes.

More Youths Opt for G.E.D., Skirting
High-School Hurdle

More Youths Opt for G.E.D., Skirting
High-School Hurdle 05/14/2004 10:24 PM
A testing system to help World War II veterans earn the equivalent of a high school diploma has become a way for teenagers to bypass high school.

High school investigates computer thefts

High school investigates computer thefts 08/28/2004 09:28 AM
AP via Newsday Aug 28 2004 1:48PM GMT

High school essays graded by computer

High school essays graded by computer 05/19/2004 12:06 PM
IHT May 19 2004 3:44PM GMT

Old-school image, high-tech truth

Old-school image, high-tech truth 11/14/2003 12:33 PM
National Post Online Nov 14 2003 11:45AM ET

Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School

Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School 07/01/2004 03:53 AM
By Scott Kleinberg, Pittsburg Tribune-Review (via MyAppleMenu)

High-tech learning tested at school

High-tech learning tested at school 11/16/2003 02:33 AM
Era Banner Nov 16 2003 1:37AM ET

Students Investigate Laptops For High
School

Students Investigate Laptops For High
School 02/12/2004 11:29 AM
A group of Mt. Abram students is dedicated to improving their school through taking advantage of the benefits provided by laptop computers. By Barry Matulaitis (Irregular via MyAppleMenu)

Shoshana Zuboff: Like High School -- But
with Suits

Shoshana Zuboff: Like High School -- But
with Suits 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Don't let your company's labels become the only way you define yourself.

Police: Four Shot at Maryland High
School (AP)

Police: Four Shot at Maryland High
School (AP) 05/07/2004 05:57 PM
AP - Gunfire erupted at a Baltimore County high school Friday afternoon, injuring four people, most of them seriously, a fire official said.

'Idol' Hopeful Returns to High School
(AP)

'Idol' Hopeful Returns to High School
(AP) 05/08/2004 06:43 PM
AP - John Stevens, the red-headed crooner who was ousted from "American Idol," returned to high school Friday and said he's still hoping to get a record deal.

Police raid US high school at gunpoint

Police raid US high school at gunpoint 08/21/2004 01:09 AM

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teach your children well, at gunpoint

ap via abc news, august 20, 2004

Justice Says Guns-Drawn School Raid Legal

A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil rights laws and the case is closed, the U.S. Justice Department said.

...

Fifteen officers entered Stratford High School's main hallway and ordered 130 students to the floor Nov. 5 of last year. They used plastic ties to handcuff 18 students and school officials opened and searched 17 book bags using a drug dog.

Police found no drugs or weapons, but the raid frightened children, provoked marches and lawsuits and brought national media attention and the resignation of the school's longtime principal.

the original story is covered here with video. the memory hole has mor e, including an unidentified person in what appears to be a military uniform.

This is one incident that I can't imagine happening in Japan... at least not yet. I wonder what this sort of "police state" behavior does to children.

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'Idol' Hopeful Returns to High
School (AP)

'Idol' Hopeful Returns to High
School (AP) 05/09/2004 03:28 AM

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Talented High School Teammate to Stars
Faded Away

Talented High School Teammate to Stars
Faded Away 04/12/2005 11:13 PM
Regret hangs on Steve Butler when he talks about his high school baseball team, the one he played on with Alex Rodriguez, Doug Mientkiewicz and others who turned pro.

High School Girl Strong-arms 3 Robots

High School Girl Strong-arms 3 Robots 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
In light of International Women's Day, I can't think of a more appropriate story than this. Scott Zinn and other readers sent links about the long anticipated Arm Wrestling match between man and machine. The machines in this case are using the latest electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators, also known as artificial muscles. EAP technology is more powerful than electric motors but much lighter than hydraulics and pneumatics. Dr. Bar-Cohen of NASA first proposed such a competition in 1999 and it finally happened March 7th in San Diego. Three organizations entered robot arms to compete against a human opponent, high school student and robotics hobbyist Panna Felsen. She beat all three robots. The robot build by ERI of New Mexico did best, holding out against the human for 24 seconds (ERI also sells EAP units for experimenters). Two champion arm wrestlers officiated to ensure both human and machine followed standard rules. The eventual goal is to have an EAP arm that can beat the strongest human. For more see our previous stories on Dr. Bar-Cohen and EAP actuators

The American High School Internet
Mathematics Competition

The American High School Internet
Mathematics Competition 06/11/2004 05:00 AM
Home-school.com - Fri Jun 11, 07:57 am GMT

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition 03/30/2005 02:05 PM

Wrong Signature Mars High School Diploma
(AP)

Wrong Signature Mars High School Diploma
(AP) 05/28/2004 05:07 PM
AP - The DeKalb County school systems is having to reprint diplomas for its 2004 graduates because they are signed by the wrong person.

High School Student A No-Show, But Still
Makes A-List

High School Student A No-Show, But Still
Makes A-List 11/13/2003 10:09 AM
beyond ordinary grade inflation .. she doesn't attend

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Maine high school iBook program looks
promising

Maine high school iBook program looks
promising 06/22/2004 03:44 PM
Maine's education commissioner says she has assurances from at least 47 superintendents that they are ready to move forward with iBooks in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple...

It looks good for Maine high school
laptop program

It looks good for Maine high school
laptop program 06/25/2004 11:57 AM
Maine Education Commissioner Susan Gendron has obtained assurances from at least 58 superintendents that theyÂ’re ready to press forward with laptops in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple...
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